Lives Impacted
Through our continuum of services, we’re helping people across South Dakota find the stability and support they need to feel healthy, safe and accepted. See the impact through our annual report and client stories below.
2025 Annual Report
Those Things That Last
A teriyaki dumpling speared on a fork in one hand, a seventh grader uses his free hand to select a card from the box holding the game Headband as he updates his mentor on his life.
His mentor—Dave DeVries—listens intently, interrupting only to urge him to take the occasional bite. After all, their time together is limited, lasting only the length of a middle-school lunch hour.
But a lot can take place in those 40 minutes, especially in a relationship that has lasted for several years and likely will continue at least until the student graduates from high school in 2033.
