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Health care challenges are a very common factor that can drive a person to homelessness, and Brianna Searcy, who reached out to Our House in early 2023, clearly describes how this happened with her.  “I have always worked, but when I got sick, it made it hard to do my job.  I had so many […]

Taylor was living in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 2022, when he broke his arm, which caused him to miss several months of work. “By the spring of 2023, all my savings were drained, and I got evicted. I was in and out of tents or the one shelter in town, which is built to help 30

Tanisha is a dedicated mother and advocate for her children, including one with special needs, but she has struggled to maintain employment while juggling her other responsibilities as a single parent. An extended period of unemployment had led led Tanisha’s family into housing instability. Tanisha never liked to ask for help, but on the advice of

Jada is a mother of five whose marriage ended in 2024. For about a month, she and her children lived in her car, but at the urging of her mother she came to Our House in April 2024. She and her family were only the second family to live in our new Mabee House.  Her

For eight years, Tavia Dotson was a stay-at-home mom in an increasingly abusive marriage, but in 2023 she mustered the courage to leave her husband and find a safer home for her three children. She first moved in with her mother, but within a year her mother passed away. Struggling with grief, having nowhere else

Before coming to Our House, Lindsey had been living in addiction for years, to the point where even her family did not know if she would make it out to the other side. After a period of incarceration and a stay at an outpatient facility, Lindsey felt like she had burned all of her bridges.