Also offers literacy programs and computer jobs training. Arranges confidential purchases of needed clothing and school supplies for indigent children. Provides on site daycare assistance for low income working families. Provides food, clothing, pharmacy assistance, and limited utility and rent assistance to persons in crisis. Offers limited transportation subsidy to persons who are beginning employment and helps secure needed identification to secure employment.
All programs encourage growth toward self-sufficiency.
Provides emergency aid to local and transient people in need. Its homeless shelter, the largest in Arkansas, provides temporary shelter, meals, job placement and counseling for men, women, children and families. It also operates a soup kitchen and provides transitional housing for the homeless. Three Corps Community Centers provide social services, character building programs for Pulaski County youth, adult programs, food pantries and clothing for people in need. The Adult Rehabilitation Center on Roosevelt Road provides a free, 90-day program to help homeless men with alcohol, drugs and emotional problems in a spiritual rehabilitation program.