Complex sentence: By July of the following year, SOME opened its first program--a soup kitchen to feed the impoverished persons in DC. A few years later, the Substance Abuse Program was started in October 1975.
Split into simpler sentences: By July of the following year, SOME opened its first program, a soup kitchen to feed the impoverished persons in the District of Columbia. The Substance Abuse Program was started in October 1975.