Provides emotional support, share valuable insights, and connect individuals with additional resources. The primary focus is to empower and assist families in their journey, fostering a positive and inclusive experience. Families First uses the proven Parents as Teachers Model to increase parent knowledge of early childhood development, grow relationships through fun get-togethers, improve early detection of developmental delays and health issues, and increase children's school readiness and success.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

The Center for Disabilities LEND Clinic works to improve the health of infants and children with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities. The Center for Disabilities helps families who are interested in learning how to support their child's strengths and address their weaknesses and health care needs. The South Dakota LEND Developmental Clinic provides a free interdisciplinary evaluation to children who are between six months and six years old who may have a developmental concern. The evaluation is offered once a month at the USD Sanford School of Medicine Health Science Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Special education staff, psychologists, and early intervention staff are housed here for the Rapid City School District.

​Specialized therapy (including occupational, speech, behavior and physical therapies) and psychology services for individuals of all ages in Sioux Falls. Therapists provide specialized treatments in assistive technology, seating and positioning, feeding and swallowing, augmentative communication, sensory integration, pediatric bowel and bladder incontinence; visual motor/perception; torticollis treatment; serial casting; behavior management; and screenings and evaluations of Autism.

Early Head Start prenatal and children age birth to five, promotes healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women; helps enhance the development of very young children and promotes healthy family functioning; and provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and mental health services. All services are provided in the home. Head Start Centers offer a comprehensive, no cost early learning and support program for children 3 - 5. Residents of Corson County are served through the Lemmon Head Start Center.

Provides ongoing training and technical assistance to adults who are involved in day-to-day care of young children and offers services to support parents, child care providers, teachers and others involved in early care and education of children birth -12 years of age. Services include: Face-to-face and online early childhood education on issues such as child development, age appropriate activities, effective guidance, program management, and CPR/First Aid certification. Resource lending libraries with information on social emotional observations, recommendations and guidance for children using difficult behaviors. Child Care referral for parents looking for licensed and registered child care providers. Host site for the South Dakota Child Safety Seat Program Coordinates the Starting Strong Preschool scholarship program, the Responsive Parenting class, Child Development Associate credentialing and other programs.

The South Dakota Birth to Three Early Intervention Program serves children from birth to 36 months with developmental delays or disabilities and their families. To see if your child is eligible for Birth to Three services, contact the local Birth to Three Service Coordinator found at this site: https://doe.sd.gov/Birthto3/documents/B3-map-0624.pdf. People can also call 1-800-305-3064 to be directed to the local program.

Head Start is a comprehensive child development program designed to assist families and their children during the developmental years of 3-5 years of age. The program provides for health care services, educational services, and special needs services for the enrolled child and most importantly the opportunity for parents to be engaged in the decision making processes that affect their child's readiness for school.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

Bright Start is a community-based, voluntary program which implements the evidence based Nurse Family Partnership model to provide nurse home visitation services to families during pregnancy, after delivery and may continue until the child's second birthday. Services include prenatal, maternal and infant/child health assessments and education; and health, safety and nutrition education. Families are linked with resources such as prenatal, postpartum, and pediatric medical care, family planning services, mental health services, job training, literacy services, employment opportunities, housing, substance abuse treatment, early childhood assessment and intervention opportunities, and other community resources

A national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and their families. Services include head start and early head start part and full day, school year, and full year options, breakfast, lunch and snack provided, transportation is available for those with need, cultural and language curriculum for the Lakota/Dakota Language, developmental screenings, and services for prenatal mothers.

​Specialized therapy (including occupational, speech, behavior and physical therapies) and psychology services for individuals of all ages in Sioux Falls. Therapists provide specialized treatments in assistive technology, seating and positioning, feeding and swallowing, augmentative communication, sensory integration, pediatric bowel and bladder incontinence; visual motor/perception; torticollis treatment; serial casting; behavior management; and screenings and evaluations of Autism.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

Early Intervention Program that serves children from birth - 36 months with developmental delays or disabilities and their families. To schedule a developmental screen, contact the local service coordinator.

ICAP Children and Family Services include the following: Extended Day and Part Day Head Start (ages 3-5) for low-income children, including children with special needs. Early Head Start home based (pregnancy to age 3) offers weekly home visits with focused information on parenting and parent/child activities.

Provides developmental screenings, parent education, and early intervention services at no cost for families who have children from birth up to age 3. This program is designed to help children whom have difficulty learning, growing, or behaving like other children in their age group or have a medical condition. ​The Birth to Three Program contributes to the success of children with developmental delays and their families by providing dynamic, individualized early intervention services and supports by building on family strengths through every day routines and learning experiences.

Offers over 30 specialties including: child abuse, pediatric genetics, cardiology, critical care, developmental, emergency medicine, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hospitalist, hematology and oncology, infectious disease, neonatology, nephrology, neurology, orthopedics, palliative care, psychiatry, psychology, pulmonology, radiology, rehabilitation, rheumatology, sleep medicine, surgery, and urology. Also provides CHILD services, genetic counseling, immunizations, diabetes education, nutrition, and travel medicine.

Early Head Start prenatal and children age birth to five, promotes healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women; helps enhance the development of very young children and promotes healthy family functioning; and provides early childhood education, health, nutrition, and mental health services. All services are provided in the home. Head Start Centers offer a comprehensive, no cost early learning and support program for children 3 - 5. Residents of Corson County are served through the Lemmon Head Start Center.