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The County Extension Office is the base of the 4-H Youth Program Advisor. It provides youth development education via the South Dakota 4-H program and other youth enrichment learning experiences at the community level as well as information including fact sheets, feature articles, podcasts, webinars and more is accessible to constituents through website www.igrow.org.

Coordinates resources and referral services for young families. Facilitates case management services and dedicates its efforts to providing parents with support during their childbearing and child-rearing years to focus on the important of health families. Offers the following prenatal and parenting education classes: Childbirth Class: Provides childbirth information. Topics include warning signs and progression of labor, relaxation breathing and other relaxation techniques, comfort and pain management, and newborn care. This is a 3-hour, in-person and online session. Breastfeeding Class: Provides education to families on the advantages of breastfeeding, guides them on getting started, addresses common issues, discusses milk storage, and offers tips for returning to work. This is a two-hour, in-person and online session. Sibling Readiness Class: Provides siblings and their parents or caregivers valuable information about becoming a big brother or sister. Tours of the Avera St. Mary's Women's Center may be available to learn about the place where mom and the new baby will stay. This in-person class is especially appropriate for children 3 years of age and older. Common Sense Parenting Class: Provides parenting education to parents or caregivers with children and adolescents of all ages who want to enhance their parenting skills. Skills learned can be used with any parenting style and with any single parent, two-parent, or multi-parent set of rules. Topis covered include parents as teachers, effective praise, teaching self-control, preventing teaching, and corrective teaching. Participants will learn how to reduce family stress, support success in school, diminish yelling and fighting, reduce problem behavior, increase confidence, and enrich their relationships with their children. This 2-hour class meets in-person once a week for 6 weeks. SMILE (Start Making it Livable for Everyone) Class: An educational program for separating/divorcing parents with minor children. Helps parents to better understand the effects of separation and divorce, the needs of their children, and the roles in promoting their children's healthy adjustment to separation or divorce. This program is approved by the judicial system for parents involved in custody or visitation cases. This class is provided online only. Pregnancy Education and Support for Teens: Provides prenatal education about nutrition and exercise, decision making skills, building self-esteem, adoption information, educational planning, Lamaze breathing and relaxation techniques, parenting skills, tour of an Obstetrics Wing, and newborn care. Young women are invited to attend and bring their family supporters to learn more about labor, delivery, and parenting a newborn. Parenting Education and Support for Teens: Provides parenting education about the challenges of parenting, child care, nutrition and medical care, play and discipline, community resources, goal setting, school and/or work, decision making skills, coping skills, communication and relationships, and finance and legal concerns. Young moms, their babies, dads, and family supporters are invited to attend.

Coordinates all agencies within the jurisdiction to include public, private, and non-governmental organizations to ensure the protection of life and property in the event of threatened or actual natural disasters, terrorism, technological, or man-made events. Responsibilities include development and maintenance of the county plan for reacting to emergencies; during an actual emergency, the director coordinates the action; and trains other agencies to respond to emergencies. County Emergency Managers can make contact with volunteer fire departments in their County. This is not an emergency first response organization. If you are in immediate danger please call 911.

A 24-hour source of support and information to cancer patients and their families. Reasons for calling the Navigation Center can range from managing symptoms, to finding resources for emotional support, to getting help for loved ones impacted by cancer. Anyone can call the Navigation Center - they do not need to be an Avera patient. Calls are answered by registered nurses and social workers. The Avera Cancer Institute has a registered dietician that can assist cancer patients with eating problems and related nutritional concerns, and offers several cancer support groups (in the Sioux Empire area) including A Time To Heal for All Cancers, Cancer Caregiver Support Group, Look Good, Feel Better, Men's Cancer Support Group, and To Be Well.

Social workers trained in financial issues can help you find whatever assistance is available to ease your financial concerns. Limited assistance is available to eligible individuals for treatment-related costs such as transportation, home care and child care. The CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation also provides help with co-pays for chemotherapy and targeted drugs. Check website for current covered diagnoses.

With over 60 volunteer firefighters, the department is organized into 4 engine companies and 1 aerial ladder company. From these home companies the department also staffs and supports a rescue squad, a dive rescue squad, and has the capability to respond to various technical rescue incidents.

The Hyde County Sheriff's office is a law enforcement entity that serves Hyde County and the City of Highmore. The County Sheriff is also the contact mental health holds, burning bans, county jails/correctional facilities and fingerprinting (call for specifics).

Behavioral health services include outpatient individual, couples, and family counseling, psychological assessment and evaluations (non-court ordered), and case management.

Services provided are - Coordinates all agencies within the jurisdiction to include public, private, and non-governmental organizations to ensure the protection of life and property in the event of threatened or actual natural disasters, terrorism, technological, or man-made events. ​The responsibilities of the Bennett County Emergency Management includes develops and maintains the county plan for reacting to emergencies; during an actual emergency, the director coordinates the action; and trains other agencies to respond to emergencies. ​County emergency Managers can make contact with volunteer fire departments in their County. This is not an emergency first response organization. For those in immediate danger please call 911.

A health information referral service linking consumers and health professionals who have health questions to organizations best able to provide answers. Emphasis is on prevention information.

Offers skilled nursing care for either short-term rehabilitation or extended long-term care needs. Provides daily activities, physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy, and 24-hour a day nursing care. Accepts Medicare and Medicaid.

Roosevelt Swim Center Indoor and 50 meter Roosevelt Swim Center Outdoor Pool Providing open swim, family swim, walking pool, lap pool, water fitness classes, racquetball courts, land fitness classes, and limited cardio equipment. Parkview Pool Providing dividing board, fountains, slide, sand volleyball, and play area. Jimmy Hilton Pool at Sioux Park Providing youth dinosaur slide, lily-pads, 2 slides, and fountains. Horace Mann Pool Providing mountain slide, 2 run-out slides and 1 drop slide, climbing wall, and vortex pool. Aquatics division services include fitness classes, CPR classes, babysitting classes, lifeguard courses, and American Red Cross health and safety courses.

A non-profit association of hobby honeybee keepers who would go to a Black Hills location for the purpose of collecting a swarm of honeybees to remove a honeybee problem from a residence. We also encourage and educate new comers to the hobby.

Offers limited food assistance as part of Feeding South Dakota's mini-food-pantry system. Service is limited to one pre-packed bag of food per household per month. Although there is a minimum number of prepackaged bags available, bread and peanut butter are always available. ​Please call ahead to check availability of assistance.

The County Extension Office is the base of the 4-H Youth Program Advisor. It provides youth development education via the South Dakota 4-H program and other youth enrichment learning experiences at the community level as well as information including fact sheets, feature articles, podcasts, webinars and more is accessible to constituents through website www.igrow.org.

Weatherization is a service to assist individuals in providing energy efficient measures in their homes. A GROW South Dakota representative will conduct an energy audit on the home to determine what repairs are cost effective to increase energy efficiency and reduce the cost of utilities. Common repairs include: adding insulation in walls and attics, weather stripping doors and windows, minor repairs, and furnace repairs and replacements. Income guidelines determine eligibility.

Coordinates all agencies within the jurisdiction to include public, private, and non-governmental organizations to ensure the protection of life and property in the event of threatened or actual natural disasters, terrorism, technological, and man-made events. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining the county plan for reacting to emergencies. During an actual emergency, the director coordinates the action and trains other agencies to respond to emergencies. County emergency managers can make contact with volunteer fire departments in their county when necessary. This is not an emergency first response organization. If you are in immediate danger, please call 911.

Provides worship services and children's church.

Provides the food vouchers, prescription expense assistance (medicine only), vision expense assistance (eyeglasses and contacts), and personal care items (laundry soap, cleaning supplies, and hygiene items). Please note, prescription assistance is for those without insurance and it is for one time only! Personal care assistance is once in a calendar year.

Provides adult Bible class and worship services. Additional opportunities to worship, small groups, and children, youth, and adult programs may be available. Please call or visit website for additional opportunities.

Issues enrollment applications, tribal marriage licenses, and prepares certifications of enrollment. Provides services to on and off tribal land via telephone, fax, or email. Records marriages, divorces, births, deaths, adoptions and court ordered name changes. Updates voter lists for tribal elections. Prepares family tree charts upon request. Assists nine districts in maintaining their census lists.

Provides long-term nursing facility care, short-term rehabilitation care, and assisted living care. Services include but are not limited to 24-hour nursing care, physical/speech/occupational therapy, exercise programs, nutrition services, and activity programs. Assisted living services offer support care and life-enriching activities and programming. Also offers short-term respite services.

Provides in-home services including medical care (wound care, medication administration, medical tests, skilled nursing services, and hospice care), companion care (escort/transportation, meal preparation, protective supervision, respite care, shopping assistance), personal cares (bathing, dressing and grooming, body care, assistance with doctor's appointments, feeding assistance, positioning, standby assistance, total assistance, and ambulation assistance), and homemaker services (cleaning assistance and other light housekeeping).

Sioux Falls Paratransit provides curb-to-curb transportation to individuals who are unable to use the fixed-route system. Service is provided within a defined Paratransit service area.

Off-Leash dog parks rules for usage are posted at each site. Each site has a picnic table, trash receptacle, and plastic bag dispenser for owners to use to pick up after the pets. City Dog Parks include: Lien Park, Spencer Park, Family Park, Kirby Dog Park, Hayward Park, and Pawsible Dog Park at Jacobson Plaza.