Expanding outreach for homeless community in Sioux Falls
At Wednesday night's city council meeting, funding was approved for South Dakota Urban Indian Health to expand outreach efforts.
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At Wednesday night's city council meeting, funding was approved for South Dakota Urban Indian Health to expand outreach efforts.
The city has selected South Dakota Urban Indian Health (SDUIH) to receive $175,000 to help unhoused people. Here's a look at how it'll help expand the Wo'Okiye Project.
“We’re not just looking at the immediate challenge, whether that’s loitering or panhandling or something else, but what are the circumstances that led up to that point.”
Sioux Falls could see its first "Street Outreach" as early as May, following the same model as Rapid City.
Sioux Falls could see its first “street outreach” teams working with the city’s homeless population as early as May, with a local organization following an intervention model being used in Rapid City and larger metro areas nationally.