Community Mobilization Projects

The Community Mobilization Project initiative is designed to blend the resources of federal, state, and local government together with those of community leadership, volunteers, private and public service providers, families, schools, and all citizens to focus on reducing the incidence of ATOD abuse in the state.

Each Community Mobilization Project is staffed by a Community Prevention Networker (CPN). There are 17 Community Prevention Networkers across the state with offices located in Aberdeen, Watertown, Lemmon, Pierre, Madison, Huron, Sturgis, Hot Springs, Rapid City, Winner, Mitchell, Chamberlain, Yankton, and Sioux Falls.


The Community Prevention Networkers (CPN) responsibilities are as follows:

• Assemble a coalition of community leaders and/or help sustain current ATOD and violence prevention efforts within the community.
• Conduct a needs assessment based on the input of the identified community leaders.
• Develop and implement an action plan (based on the needs assessment) which outlines specific goals and objectives designed to address alcohol/drug abuse and violence issues in the community.
• Evaluate the project on an ongoing basis.
• Facilitate community/student forums focusing around an area of concern/interest.
• Provide 'how-to's for conducting community events such as block parties, youth mural projects, and intergenerational dialogues.
• Provide assistance with youth development projects in schools and communities.

Counties not covered by a community mobilization project are as follows:

• Brookings, Jackson, Shannon, Bennett

The remainder of the counties that are covered by the twelve community mobilization projects are as follows:

Avera St. Lukes

Brown	Day	Edmunds	Faulk
Marshall	McPherson	Spink

Capital Area Counseling

Buffalo	Haakon	Hughes	Hyde	Jones
Lyman	Potter	Stanley	Sully

City/County Alcohol and Drug

Pennington

Community Counseling

Beadle	Hand	Jerauld
Lake	Miner	Moody

Dakota Counseling Institute
(Stepping Stones)

Aurora	Brule	Davison
Hanson	McCook	Sanborn

Dakota Drug and Alcohol
(Prairie View Prevention Services, Inc.)

Lincoln

Minnehaha

Human Service Agency

Clark	Codington	Deuel	Grant
Hamlin	Kingsburg	Roberts

Lewis and Clark Behavioral Health Services

Bon Homme	Charles Mix	Clay	Douglas
Hutchinson	Turner	Union	Yankton

Northern Hills Alcohol and Drug

Butte

Lawrence

Meade

Native American Advocacy Project

Charles Mix

Gregory

Mellette

Todd

Trip

Southern Hills Alcohol and Drug

Custer

Fall River

Three Rivers MH/CD

Campbell	Corson	Dewey	Harding
Perkins	Potter	Walworth	Ziebach