Pulaski County School Welfare 490-2000 Arranges confidential purchases of needed clothing, school supplies and minor medical services for indigent children. Provides casework and emergency food, clothing, medicine, rent and utility assistance to individuals in need. Provides on-site daycare assistance for low income working families. The Helping Hand of Greater Little Rock 372-7257 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.