Pathways shelter outlines program changes, plans to focus on reentry services; commissioners raise concerns about parolee costs

Pathways Homeless Shelter briefed the Yankton County Board of Commissioners on program changes and its plan to shift resources from an emergency “night‑by‑night” shelter toward an upstairs reentry program that emphasizes case management, employment placement and housing support.

Will, executive director of Pathways Homeless Shelter, told the board the organization will discontinue the night‑by‑night acute shelter and emphasize programs that move participants into sustained services. He said the shelter’s winter caseloads had fallen and stricter rules reduced overnight use; the program team expects to offer more intensive services upstairs while using the current downstairs rooms for the reentry population when appropriate.

Why it matters: Commissioners and the sheriff asked how the change…