CONWAY, Ark. (July 12, 2016) – Hendrix College alumni have found a second home of sorts serving at Our House, a comprehensive nonprofit program that serves more than 1,800 working homeless clients annually in the Little Rock community. Founded in 1987, Our House’s mission is to empower homeless and near-homeless families and individuals to succeed […]
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Check out this great mini-documentary about the Our House Career Center that was shown on PBS NewsHour this weekend! Huge thanks to the good people at AETN for putting the piece together!
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Our House and several of our clients were featured in AETN‘s documentary film “A Deeper Look: The Poverty Divide in Arkansas.” Thanks to AETN for helping tell these stories!
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Soiree Magazine by Dwain Hebda Sharon Bale photographed on location at her family farm. Dress and pearl earrings from Feinstein’s; make-up by Bridget Baltimore at Barbara/Jean; hair by Angela Alexander  You don’t just walk around Our House shelter in Little Rock without a reason for being there. Visitors and volunteers, residents, families, church
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Fox 16 Parents of kids are attending “Our House” in Little Rock, taking time to clean it up. About a dozen parents spent Saturday morning removing part of a damaged fence from a playground, pulling weeds from flower beds, wiping down walls and organizing books in classrooms throughout the building. It was all a part
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette Michael Storey Rachael Borne Where I live: In downtown Little Rock in the Quapaw Quarter Historic District, in a 1920s-era apartment building one block from MacArthur Park. The lot was once the neighborhood German beer garden and was later developed in the Craftsman style. Occupation: I am the re-entry program coordinator at
Arkansas Business by Alexis Hosticka Our House opened its new $1 million Career Center on Wednesday, quadrupling the capacity of the previous space and allowing for as many as 120 people to participate daily in job training and career education. The new center features resources such as a teaching kitchen, which was not available in
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette By Ginny Monk PHOTO BY MELISSA GERRITS Photo Caption: Eric Crisp (from left), Cynthia Huff, Kanisha Hatton and Brian Ault congratulate one another Wednesday at the Our House Career Center. The four used Our House opportunities to succeed in the workplace. Our House revamps career center LR nonprofit quadruples capacity for job-help programs
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KTHV LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) — People who live on the streets or face being homeless now have a place to look for work. Our House opened its newly renovated Career Center on Wednesday. The center provides job training, job search help, financial literacy courses, and life skills training for more than 600 adults
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The Career Center Program: The Our House Career Center provides job training, job search assistance, financial literacy courses, and life skills training to more than 600 homeless and near-homeless adults each year. In 2015, the Career Center helped 499 adults find full-time jobs, with 288 different central Arkansas employers. This program was formerly called the
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