It’s Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day “Prevention Works. Treatment is Effective. People Recover.” So goes this year’s slogan for Mental Health Awareness Month. May 9th is a special day in that month – it’s Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day....
In 2008, the national Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap (CATG) initiative was launched in Arkansas with support from the Open Society Foundation and with local support from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and the Arkansas Community Foundation. The goal of...
A quality K-12 education is critical to the future well-being of Arkansas’s children. The benefits of a high-quality education, or the negative impacts brought about by the opposite, will affect almost every aspect of a child’s life well into...
How are public schools funded in Arkansas? We’ll tell you how. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families has released a new report, “A Citizen’s Guide to Arkansas Public School Financing,” the first in a series of education reports that...
Affordable Care Act helps Arkansas kids get preventive care More than 64% of Arkansas’s children have gained or maintained access to cost-effective preventive care services as a result of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new fact sheet...
This week child advocates celebrate the two year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. When the health reform law takes full effect in 2014, Americans can no longer be denied coverage based on so-called “pre-existing conditions,”...
New figures on child poverty compiled by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families show a disturbing upward trend that is likely to continue as our economy slowly recovers. The child poverty rate in Arkansas now stands at 26.8 percent,...
The child poverty rate in Arkansas, now at 26.8 percent, is higher than the national average and shows a disturbing upward trend that’s likely to continue as the state experiences the effects of the recession. Over the last ten...
The child poverty rate in Arkansas, now at 26.8 percent, is higher than the national average and shows a disturbing upward trend that’s likely to continue as the state experiences the effects of the recession. Over the last ten...
Thanks to our supporters throughout the state, our Soup Sunday events were big successes this year. We hit record turnout and fundraising milestones in both Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas. Combined, we brought in more than $110,000 and served...