The organization serves local communities through programs in health, community-based housing, skills training, job development, and job placement. AHDC helps people become economically stable and involved in the development of their communities. It empowers and enables families and communities to improve their standard of living and quality of life. It provides support to rural residents in Arkansas who have been displaced from farm work or who are underemployed in farm work, meet an economic test, and are considered disadvantaged under the housing and urban development poverty guidelines. Support is given for educational expenses, job placement, transportation, child care, special equipment and uniforms, emergency assistance, residential and nutritional assistance.