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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Click Here to Watch Interview with Desirae Holmes By Matthew Carroll, Morning Executive Producer
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Our House opened its center debt-free thanks to tax credits Arkansas Business By Mark Friedman Our House Inc.’s $5 million Children’s Center that opened June 7 was paid for with help from New Markets Tax Credits. In September, the Little Rock nonprofit that helps homeless adults and children with housing, job training and education, closed
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KARK Channel 4 News LITTLE ROCK, AR — A Local organization — that serves the working homeless — opened a brand new children’s facility today. Our House celebrated the grand opening of its new 5.5 million dollar Children’s Center at 302 E. Roosevelt Road in Little Rock. The dedication took place during the annual summer
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Arkansas Baptist has been a great supporter of Our House for the past four years. This year ten students from Arkansas Baptists Upper School spent a few days cleaning, organizing, landscaping and helping out all around Our House. Read about their experience here. Full article from Arkansas Baptist Upper School website.
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