Success Stories by State: South Dakota

• Dakota Smiles Mobile Dental Program
  November 2009
  This program is a dental office on wheels to provide restorative and preventive dental care to underserved children across South Dakota.
• Continuum of Care
  May 2009
  The Continuum of Care project was created to increase access to culturally appropriate mental health and substance abuse services for those in need. The project specifically targeted lowincome tribal members and their families.
• Rural Health Outreach to the Cheyenne River Reservation: Creating an Early Health Care Community
  May 2009
  This project focused on increasing public awareness of early intervention services; providing prescreening, screening, and tracking services; referring children in need for further evaluation; providing evaluation and diagnostic services; and linking children to area resources.
• Mobile Unit Brings Cancer Screenings to Native American Women
  November 2008
  Describes how the Mobile Women's Health Unit works to meet the needs of Native American women living in rural areas.
• Healthy Nations Initiative
  October 2008
  The Healthy Nations Initiative was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities.
• Sowing the Seeds of Hope
  July 2008
  Sowing the Seeds of Hope is responding to the mental health needs of farm families. This is a collaborative effort of project leaders in seven predominantly rural states: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• Keya Program - Long Life for Good Health
  January 2007
  This project seeks to reduce overweight and obesity to prevent diabetes and to improve the health status of those with diagnosed diabetes.
• Recycle for Life Program
  January 2007
  The Recycle for Life program provides better mobility, comfort or a sense of well being to people with disabilities in need of assistance obtaining durable medical equipment and assistive devices - giving them an opportunity to have a better life.
• Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative
  January 2007
  The goal of the Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative (SHLRI) is to reduce use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by students in five communities in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota.
• Dakota Network of Community Health Centers
  May 2006
  This program has an Electronic Health Information Management Network with fully interactive video conferencing in place and it is being utilized to the benefit of the Dakota Network Collaborating Organizations and the patients served.