Indian Health Service is building a $1.8-million outpatient therapy center on the Sioux San Hospital campus in Rapid City to tackle high demand for behavioral health services…
Tag: suicide
As the Legislature underdelivers on the Blue Ribbon panel’s promise to pay all South Dakota teachers what they are worth, the Legislature also adds a new unfunded mandate and…
In 2013, 147 people committed suicide in South Dakota. Since December 2014, 19 young people have committed suicide just on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Administration for Native…
Another teacher from the reservation gets the Pine Ridge youth suicide epidemic into the national press. Joe Flood follows Dominique Fenton in writing up the nine Lakota…
While checking out his critique of our Congressional delegation’s focus on repealing the estate tax, I noticed that KSOO’s Rick Knobe is also trying to get information about…
Pine Ridge English teacher Dominique Alan Fenton gets that Sioux Falls paper to run the article on youth suicide on the reservation that national advocacy website Color…
Fellow English teacher Dominique Alan Fenton steps to the mic with the shockingly high numbers of youth suicide attempts on Pine Ridge: Between December 1…
I’d love to see the state and the education establishment abandon Common Core and similar exercises in faux-accountability and paperwork. But that won’t happen with opponents claiming that…