Excel by Eight is focused on building a reliable resource grid, where all Arkansas families and communities have what they need to help children thrive.

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E8 Communities in Arkansas are improving health and education outcomes for their children.

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A child’s first 3 years build the foundation for future learning, behavior, and health.

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Candace’s Story: The Impact of Doula Support during Pregnancy and Childbirth

Candace’s Story: The Impact of Doula Support during Pregnancy and Childbirth

At Excel by Eight, one of our goals is to ensure that all women receive complete, high-quality preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care. Candace’s experience highlights the importance of doula support in advocating for patients’ voices to be heard during childbirth. She shares how her doula, Nicolle Fletcher, provided crucial support during Candace’s challenging 36-hour labor, ensuring her wishes were heard. Access to doula care is essential for improving outcomes for mothers and babies.

Child Care Assistance Program expands to early childhood educators

Child Care Assistance Program expands to early childhood educators

Child care workers in Arkansas are now eligible to participate in the state’s Child Care Assistance Program. More than half of the state’s 1,900 licensed or registered child care or early childhood facilities currently participate in the program, making thousands of child care workers employed by one of these facilities potentially eligible for assistance.

Our Impact

communities

more children with healthy beginnings

more children in home visiting

more children in quality child care