The Ripple Effects: Who Else We Serve

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  • For the Kids

    Children carry the weight of family conflict into school. We provide stability tools to keep them focused on just being kids.

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  • For the Parents

    Struggling to balance court orders, missing transit, and employment stability affects everything. We help parents build a reliable structure.

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  • For the Caregivers

    Grandparents frequently step into unexpected caregiving roles during custody shifts. We provide the extended network backup they need.

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  • For the Community

    When the family court process leaves a parent isolated, the entire community loses a piece of its foundation. We bridge the gap before separation becomes permanent.

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Wrapped in Love

When families are forced to flee crisis, domestic violence, or sudden homelessness, children are often uprooted with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Through our Wrapped in Love project, your $100 tax-deductible donation allows us to hand-deliver a keepsake blanket directly to children entering crisis and family shelters across Arkansas.

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Gift a Stuffed Animal to a Child for a Supervised Visitation Session

When children attend supervised visitation sessions for the first time, they tend to have big feelings that need some comfort. We have found it beneficial to allow them to pick out a stuffed animal from our treasure chest so that they have a furry little companion to take home with them.

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What Kind of Supporter Would You Like to Become?

The Provider: Funds the critical, everyday logistics like gas cards and rideshare credits so a parent never misses a custody swap.

The Anchor: Backs the legal stability milestones—funding court-verified tracking templates and progress logs that prove parental consistency to a judge.

The Builder: Contributes directly to emergency housing deposits, ensuring a ready parent can secure the mandatory living space needed to bring their child home.

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Recent News Updates

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  • The Arkansas Digital Wall: E-Filing Access and Self-Represented Litigants in Orders of Protection

    The Arkansas Digital Wall: E-Filing Access and ...

    This essay examines how Arkansas’s centralized court e-filing ecosystem—specifically the eFlex and Contexte infrastructure—creates unintended procedural barriers for self-represented litigants (pro se) seeking emergency Orders of Protection under the Arkansas...

    The Arkansas Digital Wall: E-Filing Access and ...

    This essay examines how Arkansas’s centralized court e-filing ecosystem—specifically the eFlex and Contexte infrastructure—creates unintended procedural barriers for self-represented litigants (pro se) seeking emergency Orders of Protection under the Arkansas...

  • Books That Inform Our Work: The Body Keeps the Score

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    Discover why The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an important resource for understanding trauma, grief, family separation, and custody loss. Learn how its trauma-informed principles...

    Books That Inform Our Work: The Body Keeps the ...

    Discover why The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an important resource for understanding trauma, grief, family separation, and custody loss. Learn how its trauma-informed principles...

  • Honeywood Bear — a soft plush comfort gift for children navigating family separation

    Meet Honeywood Bear: The Gift That Reaches Chil...

    Your $30 sends Honeywood Bear — a soft, huggable companion — to a child navigating family separation. 100% of proceeds support Mending Our Mistakes, Inc. and the families we serve.

    Meet Honeywood Bear: The Gift That Reaches Chil...

    Your $30 sends Honeywood Bear — a soft, huggable companion — to a child navigating family separation. 100% of proceeds support Mending Our Mistakes, Inc. and the families we serve.

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Read the Parental Restoration Curriculum

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  • The Landscape of the Fog: Rebuilding After Addiction-Linked Absence

    The Landscape of the Fog: Rebuilding After Addi...

    This post speaks directly to parents recovering from the "fog" of active addiction, validating the dual torment of past guilt and current relational distance. It exposes the two-front war of...

    The Landscape of the Fog: Rebuilding After Addi...

    This post speaks directly to parents recovering from the "fog" of active addiction, validating the dual torment of past guilt and current relational distance. It exposes the two-front war of...

  • The Glass Wall: Parenting Through the Fog of a Mental Health Crisis

    The Glass Wall: Parenting Through the Fog of a ...

    This post addresses the suffocating shame experienced by parents forced into isolation due to severe mental health crises, clinical depression, or psychiatric hospitalization. It dismantles the destructive societal expectation to...

    The Glass Wall: Parenting Through the Fog of a ...

    This post addresses the suffocating shame experienced by parents forced into isolation due to severe mental health crises, clinical depression, or psychiatric hospitalization. It dismantles the destructive societal expectation to...

  • Sidelined by the Flesh: The Living Grief of Chronic Illness and Disability Isolation

    Sidelined by the Flesh: The Living Grief of Chr...

    This post addresses the slow, heartbreaking grief of parents who are physically sidelined from their children's active lives due to chronic illness, medical machinery, or progressive disability. It validates the...

    Sidelined by the Flesh: The Living Grief of Chr...

    This post addresses the slow, heartbreaking grief of parents who are physically sidelined from their children's active lives due to chronic illness, medical machinery, or progressive disability. It validates the...

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