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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KARK Channel 4 News LITTLE ROCK, AR – “Uh I was doing some moves for basketball when I get home.” And where is home? “Up there.” Right over the hill at Our House, a non profit organization in Little Rock helping families who have no other place to go. “We were living on the street and
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KARK Channel 4 News LITTLE ROCK, AR – Owners of daycare facilities around central Arkansas questioned the first major changes to minimum licensing requirements in 45 years. The Arkansas Department of Human Services’ Childcare and Early Childhood Education Division held its fifth and final public input meeting in downtown Little Rock on Thursday. Tonya Williams
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Arkansas Matters.com LITTLE ROCK,AR-Michelle Evans spends almost everyday learning in the kitchen. Learning the skills that will help get her a job in the future. “I’m just coming up with so many different ideas so many different recipes but its elevating me preparing me to be out there in the real world” says Michelle Evans.
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My main goal for my photography is to break the stereotypes about homelessness. LITTLE ROCK, AR — The wide smile of a boy excited and a tad nervous. The stare of amazement at a strange creature. This is the work of 33-year-old Amanda Woods. “My main goal for my photography is to break the stereotypes
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ArkansasMatters.com LITTLE ROCK, AR — Our House is a shelter for the working homeless to live in Little Rock.Along with adult services, there’s also a child development center.Children from ages six weeks to five-years-old can spend time at a special place with Our House.Little Learners Coordinator Mollie Ispen said, “We have three classrooms, an infant
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ArkansasMatters.com, Jan 9, 2014. LITTLE ROCK, AR — Community members took a tour of Our House on Thursday to learn about how they help people in need. Our House provides families with shelter, job training, free childcare and education to help get them back on their feet. “At our house, we provide a range of
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KARK Channel 4 News LITTLE ROCK, AR – The partial government shutdown in Washington D.C. affects hundreds of state employees in Arkansas. But also those who have dedicated one year to public service assisting the working homeless. The beds at Our House shelter in Little Rock sat empty Tuesday afternoon. The residents all at work
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KARK Channel 4 News LITTLE ROCK, AR – Across Arkansas, shelters and schools are seeing more and more homeless children. The reasons vary. Often, the economy has forced their parents out of a job. Sometime their parents have made mistakes leaving the family without a home. Six-year-old KK and her family are just one of the
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