ARKANSAS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES is a non-profit, non-partisan, child advocacy organization founded in 1977. They are not a state agency and do not provide any direct services to the public. As advocates, they research, educate, debate, dialogue, compromise and rethink children’s issues. They perform an invaluable role for which most other people do not have the time:

• Analyze public policy issues.
• Make legislation more digestible.
• Translate technical intricacies.
• Monitor processes.
• Calculate impacts.
• Lobby.

And, they do all these things in order to create sounder public policies (laws) for Arkansas’ children and their families.

Website: http://www.aradvocates.org/