Child Care Assistance Program
Child Care Assistance is a program that is available for low-income families. This program provides financial assistance for quality childcare and is made possible by the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF).
Head Start
UAMS Head Start/Early Head Start serves children ages six weeks to five years old at multiple sites. Head Start/Early Head Start provides comprehensive, quality early childhood education and support services for families experiencing economic hardships.
Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund
Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund (ASPSF) helps eligible single parents. ASPSF supports both part-time and full-time single parent students pursuing a postsecondary education with school costs, household expenses, daycare costs, commuting expenses, and more while in school.
Trojan Food Pantry
The Trojan Food Pantry is a campus resource for all students, faculty and staff who need assistance when it comes to providing food for themselves and their families.
Trojan Career Closet
Free professional clothing to dress for success.
Curricula Concepts Inc.
Curricula Concepts Inc. offers parent training sessions online via Zoom for families and educators in partnership with Child Care Connections. Pre-registration is required. Parents who are part of the CCAMPIS program are required to participate in training and will receive a certificate of completion for their participation. This counts as the educational parent/family support workshops.
Application for Holiday Assistance
The Salvation Army Angel Tree Program helps provide Christmas Gifts for hundreds of thousands of children around the country each year. Serving Pulaski, Faulkner, Lonoke, Saline, White, Perry, Cleburne, and Van Buren counties.
Arkansas WIC
The Arkansas WIC Program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) helps you and your family get healthy food and information on healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle.
Child Care Aware
Child Care Aware of Arkansas helps parents and families find high-quality child care centers in their community and offers support and guidance.
TIPS for Great Kids!
TIPS (Teaching Important Parenting Skills) for Great Kids is an exciting education program for early childhood professionals and parents of children ages birth to 5 years. Expert articles and TIP cards provide parents with a concise summary of how to approach different child-rearing issues in the healthiest ways.
American Academy of Pediatrics Parenting Website
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers information on a range of child health topics, including health for different ages, sleep, fitness, nutrition, emotional wellness, and healthy weight backed by 67,000 pediatricians.