Click here to view KARK’s news coverage KARK LITTLE ROCK, Ark.– Hundreds of people had their health checked Saturday for the 5th Annual Our House Health and Wellness Day in Little Rock. Companies were on site to provide low income families and the homeless with free check ups, mental health screenings, hearing and speech testing,
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Click here to view KARK’s news coverage KARK LITTLE ROCK, AR. — Honoring those who do so much for our homeless, Representative French Hill and Missouri Congress Woman, Ann Wagner stopped by to visit Our House. Our House helps the homeless by giving them shelter, food and helping them obtain skills to find jobs so
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KARK by Stephanie Sharp Click here to view video. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Each night hundreds, if not thousands, of kids in Arkansas find themselves without a place to call home. Homelessness for children is a growing problem in Arkansas. According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, each year 21,000 Arkansas kids experience homelessness,
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by CTEH Whether we’re shopping for loved ones, decorating our tree or cooking a holiday meal for family and friends, it’s easy to get wrapped up in the chaos of Christmas. Each year CTEH takes a moment to reflect on the true meaning of the season by giving back to those less fortunate. With more than
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KARK Channel 4 By DREW PETRIMOULX The news story can be viewed here. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A single mother in Little Rock got a Christmas gift from a complete stranger that she says will help change her life. At just 16-years-old, Alishe’ah Sockwell and her daughter were living at the Our House homeless
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BY BRIAN EMFINGER & BETH HUNT LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Two dozen families from Our House Shelter in Little Rock got an early Christmas present Monday, one they never saw coming and will never forget. McDonald’s of Central Arkansas wanted to do something special for the families who are living at the homeless shelter. This is
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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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