The DREAM Act is expected to come up for a vote in the U.S. Senate next week. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a proposed Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill, could be this year’s best...
We all know the ever-increasing expense of health insurance. The new health law provides more promising news for working families in Arkansas: tax credits for thousands of working families to purchase private coverage through the Exchange. Today, Families USA released...
Shop 4-8 p.m. during monthly Downtown Art Walk Fifteen percent of all sales 4-8 p.m. this Friday at 10,000 Villages in Little Rock will directly go to our work on behalf of vulnerable children and families. Stop by Friday,...
When children head back to school, parents often worry about how they will do and anxiously await that first report card. Parents whose children lack health insurance have additional worries such as paying for doctor visits, medications or the...
More than 400 children in Arkansas are waiting to find an adoptive family. They are in the custody of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) and their parents’ rights have been terminated because they were unable or unwilling...
Check out our Flickr and YouTube pages for photos and video of some very cute kids and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan during his “Courage in the Classroom” bus tour in Hamburg yesterday. He was visiting one of Arkansas’...
Congratulations to Laura Kellams, AACF’s Northwest Arkansas Director. She was named to Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list! She has been working hard since 2008 to serve the community through researching the state of children in the...
During the past three years Arkansas has created a task force of stakeholders, commissioned a comprehensive review of its juvenile justice system, developed a vision and set long-term goals for system change, and held regional meetings to discuss the...
Congress is set to address the tax rates of every American this year with the focus on whether or not to extend tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 under President Bush. President Obama has proposed an extension of...
Yesterday the Senate passed child nutrition authorization, sending the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S. 3307) to the House for their approval. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families thanks Sen. Lincoln for her efforts to lead this bill through the...