Christie Erwin was rocking her third child one afternoon when she felt the call that would change her life forever. That was when the woman who would go on to foster more than 50 children and found Project Zero in…
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UAMS, CDC Report Shows 1 in 44 Arkansas 8-Year-Olds Have Autism Spectrum Disorder
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffA newly released report shows the number of 8-year-old Arkansas children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is significantly higher than data released two years ago by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The new Arkansas numbers are from 2018,…
Downtown Little Rock’s Museum of Discovery is reopening to the public Saturday, Aug. 21, after being closed for more than six months for repairs and renovations related to winter weather damage that occurred earlier this year. There will also be…
Arkansas Children’s reported Tuesday a record daily number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. Twenty-four patients tested positive, a record 50 percent increase over the previous hospitalization peak, according to Executive Vice President Rick Barr. Previous peaks occurred in early July and in…
State officials provided new information on COVID-19 cases among children in Arkansas. As the start date to school approaches on August 24, there has been a concern around the risk of them contracting the virus. The 10 to 18 age…
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New Study Shows Significant Increase of COVID-19 Among American Children
According to a recent analysis by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, there has been a 90 percent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases among children in the United States over the last four weeks. …
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Secretary of Health Dr. Nate Smith announced the new directive regarding overnight summer residential camps for children. Training for counselors may begin May 24 and campers can start arriving May 31. It is strongly encouraged that…
Arkansas has improved its approach to the care of the state’s at-risk children, and today I’d like to talk about our success. The employees at the Department of Human Services and the Division of Youth Services have done excellent work…
When I took office in 2015, our child-welfare and foster-care system was in urgent need of improvement, and today I’d like to discuss the tremendous progress we’ve made on behalf of the children of Arkansas. In my first spring as…
It is estimated that less than 15 percent of children who qualify for free or reduced-priced school lunches in Arkansas are getting the same high-quality meals in the summer. Children shouldn’t go hungry just because school is out. That is…