Reyne Branchaud-Linsk, executive director Dakota Woodlands, talks about the 22-unit shelter for homeless women and children. The organization that runs Dakota Woodlands was founded in 1981 in West St. Paul and moved to Eagan in 1995. Dakota Woodlands shelters a little over 100 families each year and assists about 150 families annually through its shelter and other services and education programs.
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