Dakota Counseling Institute

Mental health outpatient - the mental health outpatient program consists of marital, group, and/or individual therapy in which approximately 5,400 hours of services was provided. In collaboration with area universities, the agency participates in a graduate-student training program. Referrals are made for these services from physicians, clergy, inpatient hospitals, courts, military, family, and self. A wide variety of diagnosis such as post traumatic stress disorder, depression, grief, adjustment disorders, marital and/or parent relations are treated routinely. Ages of clients vary from 18 months to geriatric and therapy clients are typically seen for an hour weekly.

Mental health children's services - the children's services program uses a systems of care approach in providing services to children and adolescents. The family is linked to all applicable community resources and collaborative meetings are held with agencies involved which may include the school, court services, social services, clergy, physicians, and placement facilities. Case managers work with the child, siblings, family members, and if the client is placed out of the home will help prepare all members for the transition home. This is a very intensive service that may require anywhere from 1 to 12 hours per week with almost 8,700 hours provided this fiscal year.

Transitional housing - the halfway house program is licensed for 76 beds, male and female. The residents live at the facility, receive three meals daily, and are provided with most basic needs including laundry facilities. The average stay is 3 months. Residents are required to participate in a minimum of 5 hours of individual and group services per week with some programs requiring up to 30 hours with almost 13,700 days of service provided. Referrals to this program are generally made by united states probation, state parole, physicians, other drug and alcohol facilities, families and self. Education provided to the residents includes parenting, anger management, life skills, aa/na meetings, relapse prevention and wellness.

In addition to the programs listed above, Dakota Counseling Institute provides services under the following programs - comprehensive assistance with recovery and empowerment for adults diagnosed as severely mentally ill which provided over 11,600 days of management; 24 hour emergency on- call care; medication evealuation and management; social detoxification; substance abuse prevention; treatment needs screenings and assessments in which almost 500 clients were evaluated, and intensive outpatient services for substance abuse to include an intensive methanphetamine program; relapse prevention; and medically monitored inpatient treatment which provided 1,110 days this year. The agency operates a 24-unit apartment low income housing apartment complex subsidized by hud. The agency is accredited by the department of health for a 16-bed behavioral health focused assisted living facility. Dakota Counseling Institute, Inc is accredited for mental health and substance abuse center as well as a core drug and alcohol facility. The catchment area includes but is not limited to the counties of davison, aurora, brule, hanson, mccook, and sanborn. Funding for services includes private pay/insurance, south Dakota department of social services division of behavioral health, medicaid, united judicial services, and united states probation. The organization receives contributions from the city of mitchell, aurora county, davison county, hanson county, hutchinson county, mccook county, and sanborn county to help with fees for indigent clients. Approximately 1,800 clients are receiving services at any given time throughout the agency's programs. A full-time satellite outreach office with all outpatient is open in chamberlain, sd.