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Category: Grantee Spotlight

Grantee Spotlight: Innovative Behavioral Health Partnerships

Partnerships between behavioral health providers and other organizations that provide health services – like primary care, social services, and criminal justice agencies – can be a powerful and effective way to get people the behavioral health services they need. However, creating new partnerships between organizations with separate missions and structures can be challenging. Finding and … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Focus on Food Sovereignty

To live healthy lives, we must have ready access to healthful foods. Not having enough to eat and limited access to nutritious foods can negatively impact how we feel and increase the risk and severity of conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. Unfortunately, many communities across Montana don't have adequate access to food – … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center

As a grantee in our Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Initiative, the Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center (EMCMHC) is changing how mental health and support services are provided – and accessed – in Eastern Montana. Through the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), small teams of health professionals travel into the community and provide … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: Spotted Bull Recovery Resource Center

In October 2021, the Spotted Bull Recovery Resource Center is targeted to open the doors of a new residential treatment program for the Fort Peck community. Spotted Bull has historically been the Fort Peck Tribes’ outpatient chemical dependency center. In 2016, they applied for a planning grant to start thinking about how they could treat … Continued

Grantee Spotlight: The Behavioral Health Alliance of Montana

This month, we are highlighting the organization that grew out of the Behavioral Health Leadership Initiative: The Behavioral Health Alliance of Montana, or “BHAM.”

Grantee Spotlight: United Way of Yellowstone County

This month, we are highlighting United Way of Yellowstone County and the new partnership they created to address homelessness and substance abuse.

Grantee Spotlight: School-Based Health Center at St. Labre Indian School

A New School-Based Health Center at St. Labre Indian School Provides Medical and Behavioral Health Services to Students and the Community.

Montana Health Department Case Studies

In 2014, MHCF issued a major grant to support the work of county and tribal health departments around the state. Here we highlight several innovative and critically-needed initiatives being led by health departments and funded by the MHCF.