Week 4 While some parts of the state were weighed down with ice and stymied by power outages, business was pretty usual at the Arkansas Capitol, despite the will-it-or-won’t-it-ice debacle. We are continually grateful for the everyday Arkansans who...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is thrilled to announce that Keesa Smith has been named our new Executive Director! Keesa will begin at AACF on February 20, and she will help us create and execute a vision for...
Work requirements don't help improve employment prospects or lift recipients who are subject to them out of poverty.
Get updates on bills that could have a positive or negative impact on Arkansas’s children and families.
Find an overview of bills on AACF’s legislative agenda and that AACF generally either supports or opposes.
Here you'll find an overview of bills that Arkansas Advocates either supports or opposes.
When Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families meets with people around the state, we hear similar stories: in El Dorado and Jonesboro, we hear about the negative impact of unfair rental laws on children’s health. In Springdale and Little...
We must ensure that all children have the opportunities and resources they need to reach their full potential, a mission that we have long worked toward through public policy reform.
As we enter a time of transition for Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, the staff would like to express our deepest gratitude to our supporters, donors, fellow advocates, and outgoing Executive Director Rich Huddleston. Rich leaves us with...
Arkansas makes it too easy for employers to steal wages from their employees by not requiring simple statements of what’s owed, like pay stubs, for example.