Pair foster families with biological families in a mentoring program By Georgia Mjartan * This article was Published in the Arkansas Times Big Ideas for Arkansas 2015 Edition. To read other big ideas click here Foster families are sometimes referred to as resource families, since our job as foster parents is to be a resource to […]
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Georgia Mjartan, executive director, Our House, Inc., Little Rock by Bill Paddack Talk Business Over the last 10 years, Our House has experienced 500% growth in the number of clients served daily, with programs for children and families the biggest driver of this growth. The changes that our organization has undergone have required many different skills
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Arkansas Business, by Alexis Hosticka on Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2015 8:52 am In an effort to offer a window into the issues of poverty and homelessness through individual stories, Our House homeless shelter has released “Project Voice,” a 12-part video series. The five-minute films highlight the lives of Our House clients and allows them to tell
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Posted By Benjamin Hardy Arkansas Times Have five minutes? Check out an episode of “Project Voice,” a documentary project created by Our House, the shelter for working homeless families in Little Rock on Roosevelt Road. Each of the brief shorts in the 12-part series tells the story of an individual client at the shelter, narrated in his or her
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KARK, By STEPHANIE SHARP | ssharp@kark.com LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Pulaski County daycare was found with more than two dozen code violations within the last year. Violations against Love N Care daycare in College Station range from bottles not labeled with children’s names and refrigerated, to employee background checks not up to date. The
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The Our House Children’s Center was named regional winner of the Phoenix Award for excellence in Brownfield Redevelopment. The award was presented at the national Brownfields Conference in Chicago on September 3, 2015. Our House partnered with the Pulaski County Brownfields Program and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to remediate environmental issues associated with
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Arkansas Matters LITTLE ROCK, AR – Helping the homeless in Arkansas’s largest city has become a labor of love for a local volunteer. Jan Alman, who has been helping out at Our House for years, gets credit for a big part of its success in giving families a temporary home while they get back
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KARK Channel 4 LITTLE ROCK, AR — Details about the governor’s plan for public safety are becoming more clear with a bill filed in the state legislature. Part of the focus is on keeping ex-convicts from getting sent back to prison. The three-year recidivism rate in Arkansas is 44 percent. In effort to decrease that
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The Winners of the 27th annual Arkansas Business of the Year Awards will be announced Thursday, February 26. City: Little Rock Category: Nonprofit Organization of the Year Year: 2015 Our House has been recognized nationally for its work to provide homeless adults and children with housing, job training and educational opportunities. After 28 years, Our
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Arkansas Matters LITTLE ROCK, AR — Voters Tuesday approved a new law to increase the minimum wage. While the ballot question passed by a two-to-one margin, not everyone agrees on how it will impact the state’s economy. We caught up with Herbert Denson after work as he sat down for dinner at the Our House
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