City of Faith

Founded in 1972, Friendship Community Care is a private, nonprofit organization that serves individuals with developmental disabilities in more than 10 counties of the Arkansas River Valley region and waiver services in Arkansas. The organization offers services to people who are suffering with mental retardation, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and similar disorders. It provides supports and services to individuals and families that will allow them to be independent and productive citizens. Friendship Community Care serves over 500 individuals in a fifteen-county area in Arkansas. The organization has a vehicle transportation system that provides access to a general community, programs, school-age services, medical appointments and recreation. Friendship Community Care also operates technology, nursing and training departments. The organization maintains locations in Marshall, West Fork, Mount View, Clarksville, Siloam Springs, Dover and Russellville, Ark.

The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission works to preserve, protect and conserve wildlife, birds and fishes for future generations. It offers habitat management, fish stocking, hunting and fishing regulation enforcement services. The department develops the Conservation for Arkansas Network, which is a database to contact hunters, anglers and conservationists. The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission maintains an education division that administers a variety of programs, such as Becoming an Outdoors Woman, Project Wild, Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs, and Hunter and Boater Education. It has developed rules and regulations governing private ownership and the use of wild animals in Arkansas. The department also issues hunting and fishing licenses and permits.