Allied Collaborative

10/30/2025

🌟 NWA Community Food Resources 🌟

With SNAP benefits paused starting Nov 1, many families will be impacted. Here’s a growing list of food pantries, meal programs, and donation opportunities across Northwest Arkansas.

🥫 Food Pantries & Community Centers

Little Free Pantries – Found across NWA, always in need of stocking

Samaritan Community Center – Pantry (monthly), free lunches Tues–Thurs, resource list (samcc.org)

LifeSource International (Fayetteville) – Pantry and family support (lifesourceinternational.org)

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Rogers) – Pantry (holytrin.org)

The Lord’s Food Pantry (Farmington) – New pantry, high demand. Email: foodpantryfarmington@gmail.com

Food 2 Families (Flames 2 Fire Ministry) – Mobile pantry at multiple locations weekly

Feed 479 – Pantry and community resource

NWACC Food Pantry – Student/community support (nwacc.edu/studentservices/healthandwellbeing/nwafoodpantry.html)

Mercy NWA Little Free Pantry – mercy.net/newsroom/2021-11-03/mercy-nwa-provides-food-to-needy-through-on-site-little-free-pan

Creative Counseling Center of NWA – Food drive Oct 23–Nov 20 (2003 SE Walton Blvd, Bentonville)

LifeSource South Fayetteville – Pantry and resources

The Community Table with Bentonville Community Church of the Nazarene. It’s downtown Bentonville by Neighborhood Market and is open Mondays 10-12 and 4-6.

📍 More Benton County Pantries: Helping Hands (Bentonville), St. Stephen’s Catholic (Bentonville), Peace Lutheran (Rogers), St. Vincent de Paul (Rogers), Care Community Center (Rogers), Manna Center (Siloam Springs), Hunger & Thirst (Siloam Springs), Second Street Pantry (Bentonville), Ridge Community Center (Pea Ridge), Grace United Methodist (Rogers), Oasis Food Pantry (Bella Vista), Shepherd’s Pantry (Bella Vista), Calvary Tabernacle (Bentonville), and many others.

🍴 Meal Programs

For the Love NWA – Free “Neighbor Nights” meals (forthelovenwa.com)

To The Table NWA – Hot meals several nights weekly

Community Lunches – Samaritan Community Center (Rogers & Springdale), Tues–Thurs

💵 Donation & Monetary Support

Northwest Arkansas Food Bank – $1 = 3.5 meals (nwafoodbank.org)

Find local pantries: nwafoodbank.org/find-food

Food 2 Families (Holiday Program) – holiday.f2fpantry.com

Creative Counseling Center of NWA – Food drive (through Nov 20)

🥖 Direct Community Offers

Local family providing bread (facebook.com/100089944174199/posts/808386918836107)

💡 How You Can Help

Donate nonperishable food (think of what your kids eat!)

Support meal programs with time or funds

Share pantry and drive info with neighbors

Contribute monetary donations where they stretch the farthest

10/27/2025

10/20/2025

Just passing along the information!
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Good Morning!

My name is Emma Evans and I am the Northwest Arkansas Area Director for Community Connections. We are a nonprofit that offers free sports, arts, and social programs for kids, teens, and young adults with special needs. Currently we have registration open for our cheer program in Springdale and our young adult social program in Fayetteville.

Cheer:
Date: Wednesdays from October 22nd - November 19th
Time: 5pm-6pm
Location: Central Junior High, Springdale
Link: https://www.communityconnectionsar.org/cheerleading
*Registration closes October 29th

Young Adult Social Group:
Date: Tuesday, October 28th
Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm
Location: Arkadia, Fayetteville
Link: https://www.communityconnectionsar.org/yasg
*Registration closes October 22nd

09/23/2025

09/15/2025

This Week’s Neighbor Night Menu: Burrito Bowls

Every week, same time and place, we host Neighbor Night: a FREE community meal where everyone’s invited.

Menu:
Burrito Bowls your choice of chicken, beef, or veggie!
Cookies for dessert

Serving 5:30–6:30 PM at all locations:
📍 Monday – Springdale @ The Jones Center (Community Park Dr., by the basketball courts—look for the blue food truck)
📍 Tuesday – Rogers – 203 S Promenade Blvd
📍 Thursday – Bentonville – 306 SW A St (across from The Ledger)

Come for the meal. Stay for the connections.

08/08/2025

🎉 AIM Fest is coming September 6th! 🎉

Join us for a fun-filled day with bounce houses, a petting zoo, games, drift race cars, a silent auction, food trucks, a community resource fair, and so much more — all in support of families impacted by autism. 💙

Saturday, September 6th
10 AM – 1 PM
Gracepoint Church, 1201 McCollum Dr, Bentonville, AR 72712
Only $5 per person

Get your tickets here: https://www.aimnwa.org/aimfest

Join us at AIM Fest on Sept 6, 2025, for family fun & support for autism. Enjoy games, food, & community resources!

06/08/2025

We currently have several pro bono spots available for counseling with Brandon. He will be with us until December.

Brandon sees clients on Mondays and Wednesday afternoons. To schedule contact us through our website at www.alliedcollaborative.com or email Alliedcollaborative@gmail.com.

Here's a little bit about Brandon himself: "I'm a student in the Master’s of Rehabilitation Counseling program at the University of Arkansas. In addition to my work with adults, families, and couples, I provide counseling from 11 and up to address a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, identity formation, and self-regulation. With humor and positive regard, I aim to create a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental environment to explore awareness and growth. Being neurodivergent myself, I love working with individuals who are neurodivergent and/or have other disabilities.

In my free time, you can find me hiking and camping throughout the Ozarks, reading too many books at the same time, or cracking another bad joke."

06/04/2025

📍 SLS Community is launching a new service called Program Forge in Fayetteville this summer! Program Forge is an individualized vocational equipping and job placement program that is designed to support neurodivergent adults to forge a path towards placement and sustained success in employment.

We are looking to start an initial cohort as soon as possible, and still have availability for a few spots. We have also hired two Job Coaches who are excited to support our participants with their employment goals!

📅 Q&A Session: We are hosting a Q&A session in-person at our Flourish Center on Tuesday, June 10th from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM at 2190 S Razorback Rd, Fayetteville, AR 72701. The goal of this session is to answer any questions about the program, provide updates, and provide a space for discussion. If you cannot attend in-person, we will have the option to “Zoom” into the meeting as well. Please email connect@slscommunity.org if interested in attending.

📝 Applying: If interested in Program Forge, we encourage applying as soon as possible, with an updated application deadline of Thursday, June 12th. To apply, please email connect@slscommunity.org and we will reach out to you with the Program Forge application and applicant survey. After review, SLS leadership will notify you to set up an initial meeting with the applicant and guardian/advocates to discuss the program and the applicant’s goals. If the applicant has active CES waiver benefits and is selected for the program, we will then begin the process with his/her Care Coordinator to associate with the applicant in their PASSE system, file a Prior Authorization, etc. as well as other intake documents.

💳 Funding: SLS Community is a Community Support Systems Provider and can bill Medicaid for CES waiver services. Program Forge is funded under CES waiver Supported Employment. We are currently in network with Arkansas Total Care, CareSource, and Empower. For those that do not yet have active CES waiver benefits, we can do private pay arrangements. If this is desired, for the number of hours per week desired for Program Forge participation, the rate will reflect the CES waiver Supported Employment rates.