About Us
Our new name, EverHope, represents our commitment to standing with Arkansas’s children through trauma and toward lasting stability—fostering hope at all times.
Our ‘Why?’
Over 13,000 children who have experienced abuse, neglect, or abandonment have walked through our doors–and this number continues to grow.
Children often arrive with little more than the clothes on their backs. They are unfamiliar with safety, stability, and care that every young person needs for a healthy life. We believe every child deserves a safe place to call home and the chance to experience childhood without fear of hunger, instability, or uncertainty.
There’s no quick fix or magic solution to prevent children from experiencing these kinds of crises.
With decades of listening to children, caregivers, social workers, and partners across Arkansas, we’ve learned that children need more than temporary safety—they need enduring hope.
That understanding has shaped our evolution beyond emergency shelter services into a statewide partner supporting children and families through healing, trauma-informed education, foster care, and the transition into adulthood.
EverHope Children’s Shelter
Children who need immediate safety have access to our 24/7 residential program, medical support, education, counseling, and life skills support.
EverHope Foster Care
Compassionate families can provide safe, stable homes for children in foster care. We offer training, resources, and 24/7 support.
EverHope School Project
Educators can partner with our trauma-response experts to foster positive learning environments for students and families.
EverHope Path to Adulthood
Educators and community members can teach life skills to youth in foster care as they move to adulthood
What’s Your ‘Why’?
I want to provide meals, clothing, therapy, and safe shelter, because children’s stability is important to me.
I want to learn more about Foster Care because children’s support is important to me.
I want to become a volunteer because supporting children’s strength is important to me.
I want to learn more about the most urgent needs because children’s Shelter is important to me.
By protecting our most vulnerable today, we help build a stronger, healthier tomorrow. Every child has the opportunity to grow, heal, and thrive.
More About Our New Look
Our Name
We chose the name EverHope because hope is at the heart of everything we do.
At EverHope, we transform the threads of trauma into a strong, resilient fabric of hope.
Every day we work to weave new stories into the lives of children and families across Arkansas — stories of healing, connection, resilience, and the beauty of a journey stitched together piece by piece.
Our Threads of Hope
Strengthen
Build resilience and prevent trauma before it begins.
Support
Surround families and caregivers with guidance and resources.
Shelter
Provide immediate safety and trauma-informed care in moments of crisis.
Stabilize
Help children and families rebuild and thrive long-term.
Together, these threads weave together to create something lasting — a quilt of care that wraps children and families in safety and healing through every season of their journey.
We chose a quilt as our symbol because it tells the story of what we do: stitching together aspects of care and healing to create something whole and lasting.
Just as every square in a quilt has its own shape, color, and purpose, each of our programs (from shelter and foster care to education and paths to adulthood) plays a vital role in wrapping children and families in safety and healing, turning the threads of trauma into a resilient fabric of hope.
