The Next Step Homeless Services

Thank you to Officer Solis from Fort Smith Police Department for spending a few minutes today with our emergency day shelter clients clarifying some of the laws in our city that our clients need to be aware of.

Thank you to Stryten Energy for donating a generous amount of household and hygiene products and a cash donation for our veteran housing program. We couldn’t do what we do without this kind of community support. Thank you Stryten!

We are having an air conditioning outage at our day shelter so we will be closing at 1 pm after lunch until we are able to resolve our air issues. Current hours are 8am-1pm for shelter services Monday- Friday.

Your Wednesday NIGHT 🌙 MARKET is back!

Come see us every Wednesday this summer, 4p-7p in our usual location, 2nd St. and Garrison Ave.

We’ll have fresh produce, chicken, beef and eggs, fresh cut flowers, hand made items and fresh baked goodness!

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See ya’ll TOMORROW night!

Thank you to all who joined us in the groundbreaking ceremony for our new housing facility. We are excited to start building our new bridge housing neighborhood for the unsheltered.

Our agency looks forward to completing our new housing facility late in 2027. The groundbreaking is this Wednesday at 10:30 am.

Next Step Homeless Services to break ground on 8,000-square-foot facility, 30 tiny homes | River Valley Democrat-Gazette FORT SMITH -- Next Step Homeless Services will soon be breaking ground on a massive housing facility aimed at helping the unhoused population in Fort Smith.

Our agency was honored to receive a grant chosen by the ARCOM Sigma Sigma Phi Honor Society last night at the Class of 2026 Graduate Banquet. The honor society medical students spent many days at Next Step over the year examining and caring for the homeless clients in our day shelter. What a wonderful group of physicians they will be. Thank you to each of them and to the Degen Foundation for providing the grant funds.❤️

We would like to congratulate one of our housing program success stories, Deborah Walker. She began our program living at our Esther group house and eventually moved to the apartments we operate with First Presbyterian Church. She steadily worked our program with one of our social workers, Atelia. She rebuilt relationships, got her job back as a hairstylist, paid off fines, got a reliable car, stayed sober and now is in permanent housing. Great job Deborah!