The Rosebud Sioux Tribe Planning $4.6M Treatment Facility
- Jul 22
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The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is planning to build a $4.6 million outpatient behavioral health treatment facility, expanding access for the Sicangu Lakota Oyate to community-led mental health, suicide prevention, crisis intervention and substance use treatment services.
The new 8,400-square-foot behavioral health treatment facility will be constructed adjacent to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s recently completed detoxification center and near the Indian Health Service emergency department, creating a comprehensive continuum of behavioral healthcare for tribal members and surrounding communities.
Skyla Fast Horse, Health Director for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Health Administration, said groundbreaking on the new center fulfills a promise to provide culturally grounded, community-led care, strengthens tribal sovereignty in health, and reduces reliance on outside systems.
The project is made possible through two grants totaling nearly $5.4 million from the Thomas W. Haas Foundation and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. The funding supports construction and includes first-year operational costs to ensure services are available immediately upon the facility’s opening.
Native American communities experience some of the highest rates of suicide and behavioral health disparities in the United States.
