Pennington County Mental Health Centers

Children's Home Society of South Dakota traces its work to 1893, when it was founded as the state's first nonprofit social service agency, and its Black Hills Children's Home campus on South Rockerville Road outside Rapid City provides psychiatric residential treatment for children alongside outpatient mental health services including psychiatry and individual, family and group therapy. Each residential campus includes a school certified by the South Dakota Department of Education. The agency is accredited by the Council on Accreditation and licensed by the South Dakota Department of Social Services, and its care is trauma-focused.

Behavior Management Systems, operating as West River Mental Health, provides residential substance use treatment alongside a full spectrum of behavioral health services in Rapid City, South Dakota. Its programs include counseling, psychiatric care, case management, children and family services, emergency mental health, and telehealth, with addiction treatment integrated across service lines. The organization accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance.