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May 2025 Newsletter

In this issue:

  • Businesses for Babies: First Bank & Trust
  • ECCS Touchpoints, May 13
  • Court Improvement Program Training Registration
  • SANE Training Opportunities

Businesses for Babies

First Bank & Trust

South Dakota Locations: Brookings, Canton, Garretson, Madison, Milbank, Sioux Falls, Toronto, Vermillion, Watertown, White

✔️Family/Medical Leave
✔️Flexible Work Schedule
✔️Breastfeeding Friendly
✔️Telecommuting
✔️Childcare
✔️Educational Support
✔️Comprehensive Wellness Approach

“At First Bank & Trust, families are at the heart of what we do, and because we are family- and employee-owned, we take extra care to foster the quality of family life. Employees expect a strong benefit package, and ours is certainly strengthened by family-friendly policies and an onsite early learning childcare facility.”

Nan Poppen, EVP/Chief Human Resources Officer

Sioux Falls Childcare Solutions for Employers

If your business is exploring ways to support families, Sioux Falls Thrive has created a toolkit intended to help leaders and business owners learn their options for supporting working parents with childcare needs. Find the report at siouxfallsthrive.org.

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.

SD ECCS

Touchpoints Webinars

The April recording, How the Huron community collaborated to bring in a Toy Lending Library, is now available for viewing.

May 13 | 12-1 p.m. CST
Cultural Birthing Practices as a Protective Factor
Speaker: Camie Goldhammer, LISCW, IBCLC, Full Spectrum Indigenous Doula and Founding Executive Director, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

June 10 | 12-1pm CT
Engaging Fathers: Enhancing Family-Community Partnerships
Speaker: Keith Ferguson, Black Hills Special Services

Court Improvement Program

The April session, Understanding the Impact of Maltreatment on Child Development, recording is now available.

Join us for upcoming CIP trainings:

May 28 | 12-1pm CT
Independent Living Services for Youth in Foster Care
Speaker: Tanya Septka

June 25 | 12-1pm CT
Legislative Update

Learn more at SDCPCM.com/CIP.

SANE Resources

The SANE Injury Assessment & Documentation recording is now available.

Beyond the Basics: The Neurobiology of Trauma

Advanced training in understanding the neurobiological impacts of trauma in sexual assault cases.

  • June 24 | 1-3:00pm CT
  • July 8 | 1-3:00pm CT

SANE Refresher Clinical Skills Lab

This one day skills lab is for those who have already been SANE trained and/or are already practicing exams.

  • June 26 | 8:00am-5:00pm CT | Parry Center at USD Medical Center, Sioux Falls

For complete SANE Learning Collaborative Resources, visit https://sdcpcm.com/our-work/sane/sane-resources/ (registration required to access complete SANE training library).