Kelly Krout

Kelly is a mom, a graduate student in social work, children’s book author and a lifelong Arkansan. Kelly and her husband have fostered and adopted children out of the foster care system. She has seen how poverty impacts Arkansas families’ ability to care for the health and safety of their children. She believes we can do more as a state to strengthen and empower families.

Everyone deserves access to affordable healthcare, mental healthcare, and the resources provided by expert social workers. We are all better students, workers, and citizens when we are well. Kelly is committed to ensuring Arkansas is an empowering place or all of us, not just some of us.

As a public school parent, Kelly has seen how often teachers pay for supplies out of their own pockets and how they work with kids experiencing trauma. No teacher should need to provide their students’ supplies, and every teacher needs access to wrap-around services for students in need.