VA Health Care System also provides caregiver support resources, events, and peer support groups.

Building Better Caregivers: workshop designated for family caregivers of people living with dementia, Alzheimer's, brain injury, other conditions that affect memory, and those who can no longer live at home independently. Topics covered include caregiver stress, dealing with difficult care partner behavior and emotions, finding help, making decisions about treatment, communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals, planning for future needs, and legal issues related to caregiving. This is a virtual training. Surviving and Thriving Workshop: workshop designed for cancer survivors and caregivers to improve self-management skills. Topics covered include techniques to deal with symptoms of cancer and its treatment such as fatigue, pain, sleeplessness, shortness of breath, stress, and emotional problems such as depression, anger, fear, and frustration. Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop: workshop designed to improve the self-management skills of people living with ongoing health issues. Conditions like arthritis, mental health conditions, chronic pain, cancer, or diabetes can cause those affected to lose physical conditioning and suffer health problems over many years. This program teaches new strategies that will give participants the confidence, motivation, and skills needed to manage living with a chronic health condition. Chronic Pain Self-Management Workshop: workshop designed to help participants live a healthy life with chronic pain by managing their symptoms. This program teaches new strategies that will give participants the confidence, motivation, and skills needed to manage living with chronic pain. Workshops are highly participative, where mutual support and success build the participants confidence in their ability to manage their health and maintain active and fulfilling lives. This is a virtual training. Diabetes Self-Management Workshop: Workshop designed for people with prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, a family history of diabetes, and caregivers. Participants will make weekly action plans, share experiences, and help each other solve problems they encounter in creating and carrying out their self-management programs. Walk with Ease Workshop: a 6-week community-based walking program designed to engage participants to maintain a successful waking program. Workshops include health education, stretching, and group or self-guided walking.

Allows family members to get paid to care for an aging adult or an adult with a disability in the person's on home or in the caregiver's home The goal is to enable the person to live in their community while getting needed care and supervision from a paid family caregiver. The caregiver receivers ongoing support and training from a provider.

Oncology Outpatient Therapist - offer counseling for people with cancer at any stage of treatment or recovery. Addressing issues of adjustment to illness, fear of reoccurrence, cancer induced distress, anxiety, depression, life legacy, advance care planning, grief, and bereavement. Also available to see any family or support members of the individual for counseling. ​​Telehealth available for any individual with cancer or their support person. May be in active treatment or out of treatment.

The clinical team at PsychArmor supports individuals by: offering a listening ear and informed guidance selecting relevant and applicable courses providing local and national resources for additional support services. providing assistance to individuals working with or caring for Veterans

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

Works to increase identification of youth and families who have been exposed to traumatic stress and shorten the time it takes to get them into effective treatment programs. Offers free screenings to children who may be experiencing traumatic stress, and then, if information warrants, a full assessment will be scheduled. Youth and families who are identified as experiencing traumatic stress will be referred to appropriate treatment providers. Treatments available at YFS include: - Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy - Child parent psychotherapy - Equine Therapy - Problematic sexual behavior-cognitive behavioral therapy - Prolonged exposure therapy - Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) - Integrative treatment for complex trauma - Motivational interviewing Also assists community mental health providers' expansion of trauma-focused knowledge and skills through education, training, and collaboration.

Eldercare Locator is a public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging providing information and referral services to older adults and their families. Examples of services include meals, home care, transportation, caregiver training and education, or respite care. Eldercare Locator is administered by USAging.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

Powerful Tools for Caregivers: This class helps caregivers reduce stress, improve self-confidence, balance their life, better communicate their feelings, make tough decisions, and locate helpful resources. Six class sessions held once a week are led by certified, experienced leaders; class sizes range from 8-15 caregivers. Savvy Caregiver Classes: Provides training for unpaid family caregivers of people with dementia or related diseases. The small group discussion classes address the progressive impact of the illness and skills needed to manage daily caregiver responsibilities. The six sessions will help develop good care management tools through group discussions, skill building, problem solving, assertiveness training, and brainstorming. Stressbusting for Family Caregivers Classes: A 9-week program that meets once a week for an hour and a half and offers insights and coping tools to help caregivers manage the stress of caregiving effectively. Classes are available at both Active Generations locations and virtual.

Helps with managing stress and organizing a plan that is designed with your goals in mind. Services are provided one-on-one by phone, via email, or face-to-face and available as a once off service, or for ongoing support depending on your needs.

Provides family guidance and coaching, in-service programs, and community education courses to help individuals learn how to care for people with dementia. Also provided are life enrichment activities for people with dementia and a hospice chaplain on-site.

South Dakota Department of Human Services offers access to free training and resources to help families and caregivers build skills and confidence to provide care for their loved ones at home. Through this easy-to-use online platform, caregivers can learn care skills that can help them improve confidence, reduce stress, and prevent burnout. Once registered, caregivers have unlimited access to all the trainings, articles, and tips available on the Trualta platform. With its online lessons ranging from 5 minutes to 2 hours, caregivers can fit training in whenever it works best. These services are only available online and not provided in person.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.

The program focuses on the needs of the caregiver. Services available are case management, information and referral, caregiver relief (respite care), training for the caregiver, and supplemental services such as nutrition, assistive devices, homemaker or personal care, and other services that can assist the caregiver. This program is available at each Long Term Services & Supports office in the state. Contact Dakota at Home for information.

Helps with managing stress and organizing a plan that is designed with your goals in mind. Services are provided one-on-one by phone, via email, or face-to-face and available as a once off service, or for ongoing support depending on your needs.

Designed to help people living in rural communities learn about long-term services support, how to help someone with routine tasks such as bathing or brushing teeth, and how caregivers need to prepare for emergency situations. The course is free for all participants.

Supporting caregivers that help their Medicaid-eligible loved ones at home by providing an expert care team, emotional support, and financial assistance.

A training designed to help caregivers see and meet the needs of children and youth from hard places. This model is based on three sets of interacting principles: connecting, empowering, and correction. This course moves from theory to practical application.

Trained peer or professionally led groups for caregivers and others dealing with Alzheimer's disease. Many locations offer specialized groups for children, individuals with younger-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's, adult caregivers and others with specific needs.