Behavioral Health Services

• South Dakota Community Mental Health Center Flyer
• Mental Health Services Brochure
• Justice Involved Services for Youth Flyer
• OnTrackSD

• List of Treatment Agencies and Services
• Substance Use Disorder Services Flyer
• Substance Use Disorder Services Brochure
• Justice Involved Services for Adults Flyer

• Intensive Methamphetamine Treatment Services Brochure

• Participating Behavioral Health Voucher Agencies and Clinics*
• Dial 211 to receive a voucher for services at a provider of your choosing

What Services Do Vouchers Cover?

• Mental Health Services
• Transportation and Medication Cost Assistance

Services can be in-person or via telemedicine. A voucher supports up to eight services.

Do I Qualify for a Voucher?

• Experiencing mental health related issues - you qualify.
• Need funding support to cover costs of services - you qualify.
• Out of pocket/co-pays on your insurance are beyond your means - you qualify.
• You are a Farmer/Rancher or related to a Farmer/Rancher.

*Participating Agencies and Clinics will be updated monthly

Pregnant Women and Women with Dependent Children (PPW)
Pregnant women and women with dependent children is a specialized treatment service that offers evidence-based programming for this unique population who have a substance use disorder. This program allows for long- term support, which includes a stable living environment through the duration of treatment. This program can assist in supporting the client’s participation in psychiatric and medical care, childcare needs, parent education and child development, employment services and job training, as well as treatment interventions.

Support Services for Pregnant and Parenting Women

See Also:

• South Dakota Community Mental Health Center Flyer
• Substance Use Disorder Services Flyer
• Supported Housing Flyer

Supported Housing is designed to address the recovering person’s need for a safe and health living environment as well as provide other needed services to support the journey of recovery.

• Supported Housing Flyer

• Disability Rights South Dakota
• Helpline Center
• Mental Health.gov
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Serious Mental Illness Adviser

• Face It Together
• Helpline Center
• SMART Recovery Groups in South Dakota
• AA Meetings in South Dakota
• NA Meetings in South Dakota
• Al-Anon/Alateen in South Dakota

A person with a serious mental illness can be involuntarily committed if they meet the statutory criteria in SDCL 27A-1-2.

For more information regarding the commitment process, see SDCL 27A or contact your local county board of mental illness for procedures in your area.

• List of County Board of Mental Illness
• Mental Health Involuntary Commitment Road map

A person with a substance use disorder can be involuntarily committed if they meet the statutory criteria in SDCL 34-20A-70.

For additional information regarding the commitment process, see SDCL 34-20A or the Substance Abuse Road maps below

• Substance Use Disorder Involuntary Commitment Process Brochure
• A Road map of South Dakota’s Substance Use Involuntary Commitment
• Substance Use Commitment Road map for Family and Friends

The Department of Social Services, Division of Behavioral Health and the Unified Judicial System created a short video and workbook outlining the role and responsibilities of attorneys in the substance use disorder involuntary commitment process, including the procedures to be followed. View the video and download a copy of the workbook below.

• Substance Use Disorder IVC Attorney Video
• Substance Use Disorder IVC Attorney Workbook

As a result of Senate Bill 136, statutory changes with SDCL 34-20A took effect July 1, 2022. The attorney video and workbook is being updated. In the interim, the linked video and workbook remain accurate in order to complete this process.

Substance use prevention places a focus on helping people develop the knowledge, attitude, and skills they need to make good choices about harmful behaviors of substance misuse or abuse. Each substance use prevention provider tailors prevention efforts around the needs of their community, using effective community-based, school-based and/or individual evidence-based programs.

• Anyone. Everyone. Meth Campaign
• Avoid Opioid Campaign
• Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Education Portal
• Substance Use Prevention Services
• South Dakota Community Support Toolkit for Meth Prevention
• SAMHSA's Substance Use Prevention Publications

Are you or a loved one experiencing a behavioral health crisis? Call, text or chat 988 to connect with a trained crisis specialist 24/7 for free and confidential support.  When dialed from a 605-area code, 988 will be routed to the Helpline Center, South Dakota’s only 988 Suicide Crisis Lifeline. 

Calling 988 is available in English and Spanish and uses Language Line Solutions to provide translation services in over 250 additional languages.

Texting 988 is currently available in English only.

Chatting 988 (English only) is available through the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s website at 988lifeline.org/chat.

• South Dakota Suicide Prevention

The Veterans Crisis Line connects individuals to caring, qualified responders within the Department of Veterans Affairs, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Many are Veterans themselves and you don’t have to be enrolled in VA benefits or heath care to connect.

• Dial 988 and Press 1
• Text 838255
• Chat online

The Crisis Text Line is a free support to individuals in crisis 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Text 741741 from anywhere in the United States to text with a trained Crisis Counselor.

• Text TALK to 741741

The Helpline Center’s Text4Hope provides crisis texting support for all high school students in the state of South Dakota 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Since texting is the preferred means of communication for adolescents, offering a crisis texting program allows students to share their concerns privately with trusted staff.

• Text icare to 898211

Appropriate Regional Facilities (ARFs) are designed to provide 24/7 overnight residential services to stabilize acute psychiatric or behavioral health symptoms, evaluate treatment needs and develop a crisis stabilization plan affording the ability for individuals to be stabilized closer to home.

During the 2020 Legislative Session SDCL 27A-10.1.2 passed allowing other types of providers to seek designation and provide services as ARFs.

During the 2021 Legislative Session, Senate Bill 144 and 186 passed to support behavioral health crisis stabilization.

• SB 144
• SB 186

As a result of the passing of Senate Bill 144, the Department of Social Services contracted with Pennington County to establish an ARF.

During State Fiscal Year 2022, one-time general funds were used for the purpose of continuing to invest in ARFs. Through the Request for Proposal process, the following contracts were awarded for the purpose of construction of ARFs.

• Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health Services
• The Human Service Agency

Governor Noem’s 2021 budget address included $15,000,000 in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act funding to support the development and expansion of ARFs.
For more information:

• Governor Noem's 2021 Budget Address
• Behavioral Health Service Delivery Transformation
• Additional Appropriate Regional Facility Capacity