A look inside Fargo's homeless help center facing criticism

The Downtown Engagement Center, at 222 4th St. N., offers homeless people many services, including mental health assistance, help with housing applications, job searches, identification cards, health care, and the Syringe Service Program, which provides clean needles to drug users. The center has a laundry room, private showers and toilets, lockers for storing personal items, and a space for arts and crafts.

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