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Shakespeare Helps Shelter Residents Build Confidence and Community

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Arkansas Community Foundation Driving to work one morning, Joy Ritchey, case manager for Our House shelter in Little Rock, began to think about what a coincidence it was that the shelter housed several residents who shared names with some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: Portia, Ophelia, Cordelia, Romeo. Ritchey was concerned that some of the shelter’s […]

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Local Shelter Gets Creative

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KARK Channel 4 LITTLE ROCK, AR – A local shelter for the working homeless is teaching classic plays to its residents and raising money at the same time. “Shakespeare at the Shelter” is a chance for current and former residents at Our House to take center stage. The group spent the past seven week practicing every

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July 2013 Newsletter

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In this Issue: Learning Center highlights: GED and High School graduates 16 year old shelter resident is honored in Washington DC for her achievement in her high school competition. Little Learners Partners: TIPS and PLAY Children’s Center Progress

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Little Rock’s Our House Building New Children’s Center

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Fox Channel 16 LITTLE ROCK, AR – Our House is ready to get construction underway on its new children’s center. Our House operates the state’s only children’s programs specifically for homeless, formerly homeless, and near-homeless children, including a licensed child development center for children ages 0-5 and an out-of-school-time youth program for children ages 6-17.

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Pair Fired Up About Our House

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette By Michael Storey Photo by John Sykes Jr. Meghan Collins was worried her goosebumps would show. You’d think the Michigan native would be used to goosebumps, but not in early spring – not in Arkansas. A pollen-busting storm had just swept through a couple of weeks ago when Meghan and her husband, Andrew, arrived

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