When Jennifer Pate moved from California to Rapid City to be near her daughter, she faced an uncertain future.

“I didn’t know what I was going to do when I got here,” she said. 

Pate said she only had enough money for a plane ticket when she left Yuba City in northern California. She also had a history of drug use that had spanned two decades.

Her first stop in Rapid City was at Working Against Violence, Inc., or WAVI. She stayed there for about a week before learning about Passages Women’s Transitional Living Facility. Read more . . .