Carroll Institute offers professional, quality counseling and treatment services for behavioral health including mental health care, couples therapy and counseling, child counseling services and treatment for those living with substance abuse disorders and chemical dependency.
Carroll Institute is accredited by CARF International for a variety of Behavioral Health Services and by the South Dakota Department of Social Services for Prevention, Outpatient Services and Residential Treatment.
It is the intent of Carroll Institute to ensure corporate responsibility in advocating for the persons served, promoting ethical business practices, develop efficiency as an organization, and take into consideration the impact of organizational activities on persons served, personnel, other stakeholders and the environment. In order to do this, Carroll Institute has adopted the following Core Agency Values:
Professionalism
Building confidence in self and dedication to the work we do through respect, thoroughness, passion, education, and willingness to serve.
Holding ourselves and those around us in high regard.
Consideration
Recognizing the value that different people, perspectives, and cultures can bring to the agency leads us to be the provider of choice.
Treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Appreciation for support and guidance.
Showing gratitude for the benefits of diversity in the work environment.
Passion
Being dedicated to the agency, coworkers, clients served, and the community through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
Collaboration
Willingness to work with others to get the job done and done well.
Readiness to respond positively to instructions and procedures.
Help where help is needed even if outside of typical daily operations.
Building strong relationships internally and externally.
Great Beginnings. Hopeful Futures.
In 1971, a foundation was created by a group of concerned individuals from Sioux Falls. The Community Committee on Alcohol Abuse or CCAA would later become Carroll Institute. CCAA began as a clearing house of information on Alcohol Abuse and a first point for referral to help for those in need. The Arch transitional living facility was open later that year to help with those needing further support for their recovery. DUI School and assessments for both students and adults and classroom instruction were among the first services offered through the CCAA. This was the first wave of prevention services, and this occurred in Sioux Falls more than a decade before the “Just Say No” campaign of Nancy Reagan. In 1973, Lynn Carroll accepted the opportunity to become the first acting director of CCAA.
Carroll Institute is named after this founding pillar of the 12 Step Recovery community. Lynn Carroll discovered 12 Step recovery in Center City, Minnesota at the same location that would later become the world renowned Hazelden Treatment. Lynn Carroll was integral in guiding Hazelden through its formative first 2 decades and then brought this excellence in treatment care to Sioux Falls with the establishment of Keystone Inpatient Treatment on August 4th, 1973.
In 1979, The Arch added detoxification services to its offerings and continued to reach out to the Sioux Empire. At the end of the 70s, CCAA offered prevention to assessment to treatment to transitional living, which was a true and complete continuum of care that few agencies have ever successfully achieved.
As part of its continuing certification, Keystone Inpatient needed to separate from the non-profit efforts in prevention and other service currently under the umbrella of CCAA. Inpatient services were incorporated as the Keystone Foundation. The Arch, The Information and Referral Center and the Detox Center were all combined into what would be called Carroll Institute. After this separation, Carroll Institute began offering adult and adolescent outpatient treatment.
1985 brought the merger of Project Awareness with Carroll Institute enabling a full capacity for prevention service to be presented throughout the Sioux Empire.
In 1987, Carroll Institute became the first accredited adolescent outpatient treatment program in the state for chemically dependent teens.
For 12 years between 1988 and 2000, Carroll Institute served the transitional housing needs of women at their 2nd Street Manor location.
In 1996, Carroll Institute moved to its current downtown location at 310 South First Avenue and has been growing ever since. In 2014, Carroll Institute developed a new 87 bed residential facility, that provides transitional housing services for both men and women. Carroll Institute chose to maintain “The Arch” as its name because of its rich history dating back to the mid-1970s, of successfully transitioning individuals dealing with substance use and mental health disorders, back into the community.
The disease of addiction remains cunning, baffling and powerful, yet it is fully treatable for those who choose to engage in the life changing strategies presented at Carroll Institute. For more than 40 years, Carroll Institute has risen to the occasion, embracing with hope the opportunities of caring for those in need of addiction services.
