Click here to read the Arkansas Times full story on the exciting launch of the Home Together program! Arkansas Times November 13, 2018 by Rebekah Hall Little Rock, Ark. Our House will partner with UAMS on a new program to provide access to behavioral health services for homeless and near homeless pregnant and new mothers with young […]
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Read below about how Our House is using Work-Based Learning to provide jobs and training for homeless individuals in the central Arkansas area. From the Partners in Action newsletter of the WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) program of the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services. Click here to read WIOA’s entire 4th quarter newsletter. New ADWS/Our
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The “Stories that Change Hearts, Minds, and Policies” Collection shares stories about challenge, triumph, great personal cost, and outright determination to love and serve Arkansas. The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation put this collection together to share spoken-word narratives from our “Stories that Change Hearts, Minds, and Policies” Story Slam, where they recognized “October is Advocacy and Organizing
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Click here to watch KARK Channel 4’s story! By Isabella Moller May 11, 2018 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – It’s the time of year where caps and gowns are handed out and pomp and circumstance rings in our ears. Graduation season is upon us and it’s a time to celebrate what students have learned. For a
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Click here to read the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s article! By Hunter Field Photo by Staton Breidenthal May 2, 2018 Lauren Straub gingerly walked two men in suits through the rows of twin beds at a Little Rock homeless shelter Tuesday afternoon. The dozens of beds at Our House were immaculately made, except one near the middle
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Click here to read the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s article. February 19,2018 By Jeannie Roberts Photo by Staton Breidenthal Lindsey Fizer settled cross-legged on her gray couch. She swiped at a lock of her long, straight, strawberry hair that fell from behind her ear. Her face brightened as she broke into laughter. “I’m a little peculiar,” she
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Click here to watch KARK’s coverage of our Financial Health Summit! KARK Channel 4 February 10, 2018 By Charmaine Nero LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Like it or not, tax season is right around the corner and staff at a local homeless shelter are teaming up to teach families about financial planning. “In April of
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Photo courtesy of Little Rock Soirée Sharonica Lee and her three children are the recipients of this year’s Resilient Family of the Year Award presented by Our House. The Resilient Family of the Year award seeks to honor Our House clients that best exemplify the hard work, wise decision-making, and active participation in the community
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Click here to read the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s article! Check out our 30th anniversary publication here! November 8, 2017 By Jeannie Roberts Photo by Benjamin Krain A little over a month after he took the helm as the new executive director of the Little Rock homeless shelter Our House, Ben Goodwin told a group of supporters
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Click here to read Little Rock Soirée’s article! Little Rock Soirée November 1, 2017 By Dwain Hebda Photos by Jason Masters As long as she can remember, Sharonica Lee has known the icy grip of poverty, how it suffocates people under the garbage hours and minimal pay of dead-end jobs. She knew intimately the
Tabietha and Bill Dillard III Join Our House in Mission to Head Off Homelessness. Read More »