Our Summer Groups
We are pleased to announce that Community Counseling Services will be offering a range of mental health groups this summer. Our groups are designed to provide a supportive and safe environment for individuals who are seeking to improve their health and well-being. Our experienced counselors will guide you through each session, providing you with the tools and resources you need to manage your mental health effectively. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, or any other mental health issue, our groups are here to help. Join us this summer and take the first step towards a healthier and happier you.
Food and Feelings Group
This is NOT a diet program or diet group. This group will effectively explores strategies on how to appropriately process emotions instead of burying them in food-related behaviors. We will use CBT to identify mindfulness, triggers and awareness of the relationship between food and emotions and how to manage this.
Proof of Action:
Using Community Coping and following "The Food and Feelings" workbook written by Karen Koenin, M.Ed., LCSW
Who Qualifies:
Adult clients - ladies over 30 year old.
When:
7/7/2025 - 9/22/2025
Mondays 4 PM - 5 PM
Where:
Madison Only
Questions? Please reach out!
Summer of Feelings
A safe group for youth to explore emotions, build coping skills and grow stronger inside and out.
Proof of Action:
This group is based on the "Inside Out 2 and Social & Emotional Learning: A Movie Guide and Lesson Plan for Your Classroom." This sequel movie guide helps address and explore kids' evolving emotions, sense of self, and anxiety. Over the course of 7-weeks, the paticipants will focus on emotional awareness, develop productive coping skills, and practive social-emotional learning through safe, structured group activities.
Who Qualifies:
Co-ed group for ages 9-12
When:
6/3/2025 - 8/5/2025
Tuesdays 2:30 - 4:00
Where:
Huron Only
Questions? Please reach out!
The Summer of Self-Love
Group for adult women to practice prioritizing self-care. Join us to learn inner balance, stress relief, and self-regulation techniques.
Proof of Action:
This group will utilize DBT and strengths-based principles.
Who Qualifies:
Adult women
When:
Starts 6/5/2025
Thursdays 9 AM - 10 AM
Where:
Huron only
Questions? Please reach out!
Vibrant Voices
Utilizing Person Centered Therapy to help increase well-being and self-care, by taking care of our emotions, phyiscal health, mind and thoughts.
Proof of Action:
This group will use Person Centered Therapy as its non-directive client centered based model it is a client therapy that focuses on clients understanding themselves their feelings and behaviors.
Who Qualifies:
Ages 13-17
When:
6/4/2025 - 7/2/2025
Wednesdays 3 - 4 PM
Where:
Huron only
Questions? Please reach out!
Paige Evenson - paevenson@ccs-sd.org
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
There are 4 core components of DBT:
1) Mindfulness
2) Emotion Regulation
3) Distress Tolerance
4) Interpersonal Effectiveness
Proof of Action:
DBT is an evidence-based treatment modality that has a primary goal of helping individuals build a mentally healthy life by improving their ability to manage emotions
Who Qualifies:
Open to all Clients
When:
Starting August 8th
Lasting 6 months
Where:
Madison
Questions? Please reach out!
Social Skills Group
Problem Solving, Flexible thinking, and adventurous activities
Proof of Action:
POWER THINKERS uses the Superflex - Social Thinking Methodology. This methodology embraces working directly with individuals with social learning differences, difficulties, and disabilities. The curriculum is designed to promote the use of visual supports, modeling, naturalistic teaching, and self-management. Many components of the methodology fit well into the multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) and the research-based implementation framework of Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS).
Who Qualifies:
Ages 7-10 - Co-Ed
When:
Starts June 13th
7 Weeks
1 pm - 3 pm
Where:
Huron
Questions? Please reach out!
Kelsey Palmer - kepalmer@ccs-sd.org or 605-350-3019
Teresa Sund - tesund@ccs-sd.org or 605-353-4843
Happiness Workbook
It’s designed to help you enjoy more moments if happiness in your daily life. It will support your mental health and well being by helping you incorporate new ways of thinking, integrate new practices, and appreciate everyday moments so that you will be better equipped to find happiness and embrace joy.
Proof of Action:
A CBT based Guide to Fostering Positivity and Embracing Joy
Who Qualifies:
Closed for IMPACT Clients Adult males and Adult females every Wednesday
When:
Starts 6/18/2025
Where:
Huron Only
Questions? Please reach out!
Building Foundational Friendships
This group will use a mix of Psychoeducation and Behavioral Activation techniques to work on building social skills, confidence, increase self-love, and practice creating new friendships.
Proof of Action:
Psychoeducation, Behavioral Activation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques
Who Qualifies:
Girls group for 8-10yr olds
When:
Starts 7/8/2025 - Ends 8/12/2025
Tuesdays 10 AM - 11:30 AM
Where:
Madison Only
Questions? Please reach out!
Mindfulness and Meditation
An 8 week group where participants will learn and practice mindfulness techniques, introduction to meditation and benefits, and how to incorporate these practices together in daily life to reduce stress, improve focus, enhance emotional regulation, and improve overall mental health. Additional benefits can include pain management and better sleep.
Proof of Action:
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an evidence based technique that uses methods to identify ways to better focus on the present and reduce worry and thoughts about negative experiences over and over.
Who Qualifies:
Adults, All ages
When:
Mondays
4 PM - 5:30 PM
6/2/2025 - 7/21/2025
Where:
Madison Only
Questions? Please reach out!
Be A Cool Kid/Anger Management for Kids
This group will help kids understand their anger: what is anger, signs, triggers and responses and provide coping strategies.
Proof of Action:
The curriculum will be in kid friendly language and will help the kids learn more about their anger, what coping strategies are, teach specific anger related coping strategies and each child will have cards to remind them of the different ways to manage their anger positively.
Who Qualifies:
Kids: ages 8-11 (Boys and Girls)
When:
Group will start on Tuesday; June 3rd from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and will end Tuesday; on August 12th.
Where:
The group will be held at Community Counseling Services Huron and transportation will be provided if necessary.
Questions? Please reach out!
Teen WRAP (Wellness Reaction Action Plan) Girls Group
Come discover yourself, work on staying well every day, how to best manage yourself when in crisis, and create a plan to get back to wellness.
Proof of Action:
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is an evidence-based manualized group intervention for illness self-management delivered in a self-help group context.
Who Qualifies:
Girls between the ages of 13 and 18
When:
Starting June 6th
8-10 weeks
From 2 pm - 4 pm
Where:
Madison
Questions? Please reach out!
Trauma Informed Parenting
This 6 week course addresses:
Trauma 101
Understanding the effects of trauma
Understanding feeling & behaviors
Building a safe place
Connections & healing
Proof of Action:
The material used in this group is based on SAMHSA’s The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) – Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma. Combining knowledge of child development, expertise in the full range of child traumatic experience, and attention to cultural perspectives, the NCTSN serves as a national resource for developing and disseminating evidence-based interventions, trauma-informed services, and public and professional education.
Who Qualifies:
Parents with children who have experienced trauma and are part of their healing process
When:
Starting July 3rd
Where:
Huron
Questions? Please reach out!
Kelsey Palmer - kepalmer@ccs-sd.org - 605-350-3019