Through the Family Services Program, the Cheyenne River Youth Project continues our mission to serve youth by supporting their parents, grandparents and other relatives.  With basic needs secured, parents and guardians are better able to give their children the guidance they need.  Families purchase a yearly membership for $20, which includes all household members, to receive first access to emergency hygiene products, household items such as cleaning materials and furniture, clothing, school supplies and diapers.  Members may also apply for our Heat Assistance and Home Improvement Programs during the winter and summer months respectively.

Members also receive advance notice for our annual School Supply Drive.  Each year the Cheyenne River Youth Project collects school supplies from all over the nation for distribution in the month of August, just before the new school year begins.  Students can enter the new year, completed outfitted for success with notebooks, looseleaf paper, folders, binders, pens, pencils, gluesticks and colored markers.  See our Needs List for more information on how you can help!

Not only do these memberships help to connect families with the supplies that they need, purchasing a membership helps families to feel more self-reliant and in control of their lives.  Since we began the program in 2002, the Cheyenne River Youth Project has reached more families than ever before, proving that this approach is effective, and sensitive to the community and the Lakota culture.