Without You, Our Life-Changing Work Would Not Be Possible...
Volunteers of America, Dakotas is a spiritually-based organization of trained professionals that responds to the unmet needs in our community by offering services to empower individuals of all ages, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Our life-changing programs have an emphasis on counseling, teaching, prevention, recovery, homelessness, and caring for our children, youth and families.
Where there is need, there is hope.
Where there is hope, there is a future.
Volunteers of America Gives Struggling Vets New Option
For the first time in seven years, Leroy Hadley has a place to call homea place that he says has dignity. Hadley, a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran, moved into the Berakhah House a week ago after spending years bouncing from shelter to shelter in Minneapolis and Omaha before moving to Sioux Falls.
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Volunteers of America Loses Important Funding
There may be signs that we're bouncing back from the recession, but for many families, businesses and non-profits, money is still tight. For one Sioux Falls organization, donations are more important than ever.
Volunteers of America, Dakotas Helps the 'Hidden Homeless'
The homeless are everywhere, in nearly every U.S. community, living with friends, family, or in shelters. But there's a different kind of need that's growing by the day. They're not kids, but they're not adults either; they're somewhere in between, and they're often called the "hidden homeless."
Volunteers of America Helps Youth Transition to Adulthood
More than 1,000 children live in temporary homes through South Dakota's foster care system. But when they turn 18, some find themselves without a home. National studies show more than 20 percent of teens who "age out" of the foster care system end up in jail within two years. Others end up on the street. But Volunteers of America, Dakotas is helping teens who find themselves on their own transition into adulthood.
Volunteers of America, Dakotas Participant Helps Others
A Chamberlain woman who battled a meth addiction for almost a decade is now working to help others break the cycle of addiction.