August 2025 Newsletter
In this issue:
- Businesses for Babies: Move to Heal South Dakota and The Compass Center
- Share Your Story: Paid Family and Medical Leave
- Dad’s Night Out: August 12 & 14
- Community Response to Child Abuse Conference, Oct 2-3
- ECCS Touchpoints, August 12
- Court Improvement Program Training, August 27
- SANE Training Opportunities
Businesses for Babies
Move to Heal South Dakota and The Compass Center
South Dakota Locations: Sioux Falls
✔️Family/Medical Leave
✔️Flexible Work Schedule
✔️Breastfeeding Friendly
✔️Telecommuting
✔️Educational Support
✔️Comprehensive Wellness Approach
✔️Trauma-informed workplace culture
“As an organization dedicated to trauma recovery and healing, we’ve intentionally built workplace policies that support our team members’ wellbeing. Our flexible scheduling allows staff to accommodate family needs, while our telecommuting options support work-life balance. We’ve created dedicated spaces for breastfeeding mothers and foster an environment where self-care and mental health are prioritized. Our trauma-informed workplace culture means we understand that family needs sometimes take precedence, and we build support systems accordingly. As a merged organization with The Compass Center, we’re continuing to enhance these policies to create a workplace that truly models the healing environment we promote in our programming.
Sydney Bartunek, Founder & Executive Director of Move to Heal South Dakota and Chief Development and Communications Officer of The Compass Center
Is your business for babies?
Learn more about the power of family-forward work policies as a primary prevention strategy and nominate a South Dakota business to be featured.
Paid Family and Medical Leave
We’d love to hear your story.
Your voice can help shape the future of family-forward policies in South Dakota. We are collecting real stories to show the impact of paid family and medical leave – your story could help drive change. Visit southdakota.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cATZkTwcl0Wwtls to share your Paid Family and Medical Leave story today!
Dad’s Night Out
Dads, join us August 12 at 5:30pm at Startup Sioux Falls or on August 14 at 5:30pm at OneHeart Rapid City for a for a free evening celebrating fatherhood and the important role of dads. Free dinner, gift bags, and giveaways! Limited registration available: https://sdcpcm.com/events/dads-night-out-sf or https://sdcpcm.com/events/dads-night-out-rc.
Join Us to Strengthen Effort to End Child Abuse
Hundreds of professionals and community members from across the region will come together for the 25th Annual Community Response to Child Abuse Conference, on October 2-3 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center.
The training event connects multidisciplinary team members while offering continuing education. The professional training and educational opportunities are geared toward teachers, medical professionals, school officials, dentists, law enforcement, social workers, mental health providers, youth service providers, the legal community and other community members and child advocates.
Attendees will be able to hear from national and regional speakers on topics that will help professionals and the public better understand child abuse and strengthen response efforts.
Keynote addresses will include:
- Be the Difference: Belonging is the Support We Need, Gaelin Elmore, Speaker, Trainer, and Belonging Expert
- Parenting Pathways: Real Talk with Real Providers, Panel Discussion
- Hope in Action: Turning Struggle into Strength, Tifanie Petro, Victim Services Director, Pennington County State’s Attorney’s Office
Registration Options:
Professional – $150
Student – $75
Conference hosts are SD Unified Judicial System, Sanford Health-Child’s Voice, and Center for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment.
SD ECCS
The July recording, Supporting Infants and Toddlers in the Child Welfare System: The Safe Babies Approach, is now available for viewing.
August 12 | 12-1pm CT
SDPQC, Perinatal Mental Health Disorders, and the Impact on Children Age 0-3
Speakers: Stephanie Hanson, MPH, PMH-C, PhD Candidate and Keri Pappas, MPH, BIRTH-SD-UNITE, South Dakota State University
September 9 | 12-1pm CT
The Power of Family Voice
Speakers: Steph Wiegand, Family Leader; Elizabeth Welfl, Family Leader; Darbi Hunt, ECCS Family Lead and Community and Family Services Early Childhood Projects Director
Growing Together: Understanding and Supporting Early Childhood Development
The three-part series is now available for viewing on the SDCPCM.com Training Library.
Court Improvement Program
The June session, Legislative Update, is now available to view.
Join us for upcoming CIP trainings:
August 27 | 12-1pm CT
Understanding the Landscape of Family Support Services
Learn more at SDCPCM.com/CIP.
SANE Resources
The two-part training, Beyond the Basics: The Neurobiology of Trauma, recording is now available.
This two-day Clinical Skills Lab is designed to provide clinical practice to nurses who are new SANEs or SANEs who have not had the opportunity to perform many exams.
- August 12-13 | Western Dakota Technical College Medical Simulation Center, Rapid City
SANE Pediatric Clinical Skills Lab
This full day Pediatric Clinical Skills Lab is designed for nurses and providers who may care for a pediatric patient with concerns of sexual abuse.
- September 25 | Richard F. Kneip Building, Pierre (with virtual option)
For complete SANE Learning Collaborative Resources, visit https://sdcpcm.com/our-work/sane/sane-resources/ (registration required to access complete SANE training library).
