Living in Brookings

• Dial 211 or text your zip code to 898211.
• A 24-hour information, referral and crisis helpline that provides resource information covering topics such as food, clothing, financial, medical, mental health, shelter, volunteer opportunities and much more.

• Jack's Cupboard combats food insecurity by ensuring those students who struggle financially to purchase food are provided this free resource supported by students, faculty and staff.
• It is available to all students with a student ID and a bag to collect food items (although Jack's Cupboard can supply students with a bag, if needed).

• 217 Fourth St.
• 605-692-5007
• Distributes food 1-4:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Bring valid picture ID and proof of current address.

Harvest Table

• 625 Fifth St.
• 605-692-4345
• No-cost warm, home-cooked meal served 5:30-6:30 p.m. most Mondays (except holidays).

United Way

• Brookings Area United Way works to provide various organizations with funding in programs that focus on education, income and health.
• Volunteers and donations are what allow us to affect change and improve lives as we unite as one to make a stronger community.

Emergency Relief Fund for Immigrants in South Dakota

This fund provides direct, short-term financial assistance to immigrant, refugee or undocumented individuals, families, households and frontline workers directly impacted by COVID-19, who have minimal access to or do not qualify for state and federal support (such as stimulus funding under the CARES Act or unemployment benefits) and meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Those who do not have a Social Security number.
• Individual taxpayer identification number and visa workers displaced due to COVID-19.
• At-risk individuals (e.g., people over 60 years old, those with chronic illness/are immunocompromised), or families that have an at-risk member.
• People who are unhoused or have been forced out of stable housing.
• Homes with children and youth who depend on adults that are undocumented, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, on U-visas, are in deportation proceedings or some other immigration status limbo.

My Neighbor

Its mission is to help community members who are hard working and other wise self-sufficient but are in crisis and budget difficulty when their paycheck is not enough.

Feeding South Dakota

• Feeding South Dakota is a hunger relief organization fighting daily to eliminate hunger in this state.
• Every single week, Feeding South Dakota assists in providing temporary food assistance to approximately 21,000 hungry individuals and families in the state, and the BackPack Program gives food every weekend to over 5,500 kids who otherwise might go hungry.

Feeding Brookings

• 605-692-6565
• Distribution site: Ascension Lutheran Church provides produce, bakery items, canned goods and hygiene supplies.
• 4-5 p.m. every Thursday (randomly drawn numbers are given out at 3:50 p.m. for lineup).

Student Health Clinic

The mission of South Dakota State University Student Health Clinic and Counseling Services is to promote the health and wellness of the university community, to enhance student retention and to support the academic and personal success of all students.

Wintrode Student Success and Opportunity Center

Salvation Army Brookings

• 410 Seventh St.
• 605-692-8863
• Vouchers for hotel stays, rent assistance, utility assistance (water, lights, heating and trash for current, past-due or disconnect notices), gasoline, car needs, food/meal assistance (please utilize other food pantries first; this is a backup/emergency food resource), long distance bus tickets.
• Also can assist after disaster (i.e. house fire, flood, etc.).
• After hours, call nonemergency dispatch at 605-692-2113.

Brookings Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore 

• 917 Highway 14 Bypass
• 605-697-5900
• A retail store which is open to the public that carries donated new and used household, electrical, plumbing, hardware and building supplies at a reduced price. Inventory changes according to donations.

Encore Family Store

• 209 S. Egan Ave., Madison, South Dakota
• 605-556-3100
• Offers low-cost clothing, furniture and household items.
• Vouchers may be available from Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership.

Goodwill of the Great Plains Brookings

• 625 Main Ave.
• 605-692-2085
• Offers low-cost clothing, furniture and household items.
• Clothing vouchers available with referral from a social service agency.

• 317 Third Ave.
• 605-692-4744
• Offers used furniture and home furnishings for sale.

Delta Dental Mobile Program

• Dial 211 to schedule an appointment.
• Thanks to funding from the United Way, the van comes to Brookings four times a year and offers free dental appointments for those 21 years old and younger.