About

The American Red Cross always there...
touching more lives, in new ways...
under the same trusted symbol.

The Sioux Empire Chapter is your local Red Cross in southeastern South Dakota. Operating around
the clock, every day of the year, the Chapter provides disaster preparedness and relief, health and
safety education, international tracing and services to military personnel and their families.

Into the hands of dedicated Red Cross volunteers are entrusted the cares and concerns of all Sioux
Empire citizens. For more than eighty years we have met this challenge and will continue to do
so in the future. The Sioux Empire can depend on the Red Cross to be at the forefront by responding
to an emergency, educating the public on disaster preparedness, and promoting the health and
safety of its people.

Learn more through other Links of Interest
• American Red Cross
• US Dept of Homeland Security
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Centers for Disease Control
• US Dept of Health & Human Services
• Minnehaha County Sheriff and Emergency Management
• Sioux Falls Police, Fire and Emergency Management
• Sioux Falls National Weather Service
• South Dakota Department of Health
• South Dakota Division of Emergency Management

Yankton Red Cross
The Yankton Red Cross office provides residents of Yankton County with disaster relief from house
fires, floods, blizzards, or other types of disasters, emergency messaging from military dependents
to their military loved one wherever in the world, and teaching life-saving health and safety classes
such as CPR, First Aid, swimming lessons and babysitting classes. In 2004, the Yankton Board of
Directors decided the office should become a service office rather than a chapter. The Sioux Empire
Board of Directors agreed to administer the Yankton office, but with all services, programs and
fundraising accomplished by the Yankton Red Cross. An advisory board provides guidance to the
activities of the Yankton office while the Sioux Empire Board of Directors provide governance and
final decisions. The part-time staff of the Yankton Red Cross report to the Sioux Empire Red Cross.
Contact information for the Yankton Red Cross is below.

Yankton Red Cross
231 Broadway #12
PO Box 357
Yankton, SD 57078
605-665-7572
email: yanktonrc@iw.net