South Dakota will receive $13 million in federal funding to expand behavioral health care and create a 24/7 mobile crisis response service, the Trump administration announced Thursday.

The funding includes 12 modernization and infrastructure grants for providers participating in South Dakota’s Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic initiative, which is administered by the state Department of Health. The grants are intended to help providers expand crisis services and strengthen the behavioral health workforce.

The investment is designed to help connect South Dakotans experiencing mental health or substance use challenges with timely care.

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Art Jr1 month ago

Election Time. Taken away, now giving but less. ????

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The Heart of Everything1 month ago

Thank God for Trump and his big, beautiful bill’s cuts to Medicaid and Medicare—appreciate the huge investment in rural mental health care. Let’s do the math, if the bill cuts roughly 100 billion annually from Medicaid or a trillion over the next ten years, let’s assume that’s hugely overblown and the cuts will only be 1 billion dollars annually. 13 million would be about 1.3% of the cut—proclaiming this is delivering for South Dakotans is just so much bullshit.

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Beth Morey1 month ago

Amen! The insanity of the Trump Regime is causing the American People and, in fact, the whole world to need mental health care. Every day there are more atrocities.

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