About the Center
CPIC brings together faculty, students, researchers and practitioners to lead change within community practice through innovative community engagement and partnerships, research and education and training with a focus on access to care, population health and health outcomes.
Mission
To lead innovation in community practice through education, transformation and entrepreneurship.
Vision
To become an internationally recognized Center that advances pharmacy practice and specializes in developing innovative and sustainable community-based programs.
What We Do
- Develop and offer training programs.
- Drive innovation and transformation by inspiring health care practitioners and students through our courses, research, presentations and service to the community and the profession.
- Identify, Engage and Partner with organizations within our community, the nation and across the globe to help foster learning and dissemination of our work.
- Apply our broad practice and research expertise to help our local, national and global communities enhance their patient care services and approach to care.
- Enhance access to care and health outcomes of patients through various projects with the help of our partners.
Featured CPIC News
A team from the Community Practice Innovation Center at South Dakota State University has been awarded a $3 million grant to expand and facilitate services for individuals transitioning out of South Dakota prison systems.
The grant, which comes from the Health Resources and Services Administration, will continue the START-SD (Stigma, Treatment, Avoidance and Recovery in Time) work on prevention, treatment and recovery for substance use disorder in South Dakota.
The four-year program, titled START-SD-Impact, will increase access to treatment services for substance use disorder, establish peer coaching services, expand reentry programming and provide post-reentry support.
Stephanie Hanson, an assistant professor of public and population health at South Dakota State University, recently presented a poster at the International Marcé Society Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
The International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health hosts an annual conference that was created to bring together research in postpartum mental disorders. Top researchers in perinatal mental health from across the world attend this conference each year.
This year, Hanson presented a poster at the Marcé Society Conference titled “Understanding Perinatal Mental Health through and Empowerment Lens.”
BREATHE-SD SDSU Respiratory Care Program Students Commence Coursework at HRMC
The first BREATHE-SD respiratory care program students at Huron Regional Medical Center (HRMC) recently began classes at the hospital as part of a $1.5 million Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant received by HRMC in partnership with South Dakota State University (SDSU) and Northern Plains Health Network (NPHN) affiliate hospitals in Madison and Brookings.
The Community Practice Innovation Center recently added two new team members to assist with research grant-related projects.
Sarah Schweitzer and Keri Pappas, both recent graduates of South Dakota State University’s Master of Public Health program, joined the Community Practice Innovation Center team in November. Schweitzer joined the team as a community care coordinator, focusing on the center’s diabetes, heart disease and stroke program, while Pappas joined as a community clinic specialist on work completed through the BIRTH-SD-AIM project.
Two graduates of the Master of Public Health program at South Dakota State University recently presented research posters at the American Public Health Association 2023 Annual Meeting and Expo. The event took place in Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 12-15.
Sarah Schweitzer and Cedric Cogdill, 2023 graduates of the program, presented on research related to stigma surrounding substance use disorder, utilizing survey data.
South Dakota State University will begin a four-year program to improve perinatal health outcomes through the implementation of Alliance for Innovation and Maternal Health patient safety bundles at hospitals and birthing centers across South Dakota.
Stephanie Hanson, principal investigator and a population health instructor at SDSU, and her team were awarded an $800,000 grant from the Health Services and Research Administration to complete the work.
The START-SD team from South Dakota State University hosted a first responder summit Aug. 25 in Chamberlain.
The free event, “First Responder Summit: Addiction and Mental Health in South Dakota,” was an opportunity for health care professionals and first responders to learn more about mental health as it relates to addiction and substance use disorder and the important role that first responders play.
Thirty-two individuals attended and participated in events including a keynote speaker, a panel discussion, an interactive lunch session, a patient testimonial and a session on peer recovery.
The event was hosted by SDSU’s START-SD program. START-SD—which stands for Stigma, Treatment, Avoidance and Recovery in time for South Dakota—is a federal grant-funded program that has been working to combat substance use disorder in South Dakota since 2019.
The Community Practice Innovation Center (CPIC) is a resource and collaboration center that has seen remarkable growth over the last five years. The center, which is housed in the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions at South Dakota State University, brings together faculty, staff, students, researchers, practitioners and collaborators from across the state to “lead change within community practice.”
Today, CPIC has brought in around 8.5 million dollars to the state, is made up of more than fifteen faculty and staff, and is actively engaged in four major grant-funded projects that address topics including increasing awareness and resources for care of patients with diabetes and CVD, work to increase access to and effectiveness of care for patients with substance use disorders, and work to strengthen and grow the respiratory therapy and public health workforce in South Dakota.
Where CPIC began, however, is far from where it is today.
A team from the Community Practice Innovation Center (CPIC) at SDSU has recently published a manuscript detailing the results of a campaign to raise awareness of pharmacist and pharmacy-related services for patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Soon after being published, the manuscript was featured in a story in the online publication Pharmacy Times.
The manuscript, titled “Impact of a Public Health Awareness Campaign on Patients’ Perceptions of Expanded Pharmacy Services in South Dakota Using the Theory of Planned Behavior,” is a result of work completed through a five-year CDC-grant funded project. Through The 1815 Project, the CPIC team is conducting work in response to a CDC call-to-action to address health disparities among Americans with diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. The project is currently in its fifth and final year, and the CPIC team has already begun planning for the next cycle of the project.
South Dakota State University is partnering with hospitals in Brookings, Huron and Madison to expand the public health and respiratory therapy workforce.
The Community Practice Innovation Center within the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions at SDSU has received a three-year, $1.545 million federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
The project aims to increase workforce awareness and provide educational opportunities through recruitment, training and job placement for respiratory therapists in rural South Dakota communities. Dr. Sharrel Pinto, department head of Allied and Population Health at SDSU, is director of BREATHE-SD — “Bringing Resources, Education, Awareness, Training, Holistic care and Empowerment to South Dakota.”
Our Projects
Working to increase access to and effectiveness of prevention, treatment and recovery services for substance use disorders in South Dakota.
START-SD is a federal program funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) through five Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grants to complete work to increase access to and effectiveness of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for substance use disorders in South Dakota. Following the initial planning grant, START-SD has grew to become a three-pronged project: with focuses on support for opioid use disorder, support for psychostimulant use disorder and overdose response. Currently, START-SD is engaged in work to increase access to treatment, recovery, and prevention for substance use disorder and support reentry for individuals transitioning out of SD prison systems.
Expanding public health capacity by supporting respiratory care recruitment, training, placement and job development in rural communities in South Dakota.
The innovative BREATHE-SD program works to meet that need. BREATHE-SD (Bringing Resources, Education, Awareness, Training, Holistic care and Empowerment to South Dakota) will leverage respiratory therapists, public health professionals, and other allied healthcare professionals to meet rural public health workforce needs and expand South Dakota’s public health capacity by supporting recruitment, job placement, training and worker development in rural communities.
The South Dakota Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program is the South Dakota Department of Health’s newest program focused on preventing cardiovascular disease and stroke in South Dakota. CPIC is partnering with the SD-DOH on this program by developing and implementing a mobile clinic that will improve access to care resources for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in South Dakota’s rural communities. The Mobile Clinic Program will launch in Summer 2024.
Learn more about the South Dakota Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program and SDSU's Mobile Clinic Program.
Interim Center Director
Interim Center Director, Community Practice Innovation Center (CPIC), Assistant Professor, Department of Allied and Population Health
Department of Allied and Population Health
Community Practice Innovation Center
College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
