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BlogNovember 24, 2020

Montana Expands Parenting Site for Those Parenting Infants All the Way to Teens

Contact: Jon Ebelt, Public Information Officer, DPHHS, (406) 444-0936 Chuck Council, Communications Specialist, DPHHS, (406) 444-4391 Officials with the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) announced today the expansion of ParentingMontana.org, a website created specifically for parents and those in a parenting role The expansion includes new resources that provide practical tools to support …

Mental HealthJanuary 26, 2021January 26, 2021

Dr. Len Lantz, M.D. – Family Psychiatrist

Dr. Len Lantz is a family psychiatrist and partner at Big Sky Psychiatry in Helena, Montana. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine WWAMI program. He is a Distinguished Fellow both in the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and …

BlogJanuary 28, 2021

Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Campaign

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies – The Montana Coalition (HMHB-MT) is working to create a public messaging campaign to combat the stigma associated with asking for help with mental health and unhealthy substance use. The campaign will target women who are struggling with these common problems during pregnancy or in the early years of their children’s …

BlogJanuary 28, 2021

Nutrition and Mental/Behavioral Health

What does nutrition have to do with our child’s mental and behavioral health? As parents we want to provide our children with the best nutrition we can. In our world today there are many barriers that can prevent us from giving our children the best nutrition whether it is our own eating habits or …

BlogFebruary 18, 2021

Backpacks for Foster Care Children in Roosevelt County

By: Ashley Toavs, PFS Roosevelt County The past few months, EMCMHC and I have been fortunate enough to work with Child and Family Services in Wolf Point. The goal in working with this agency was to provide foster care kids with backpacks filled with all sorts of good, necessary items. In the bags, we …

BlogFebruary 18, 2021

Parents’ Night Out Pilot Study

“Parents’ Night Out” Pilot Study Overview The “Talk. They Hear You.” national media campaign has developed an hour-long educational presentation for parents and caregivers of children ages 9–20 entitled “Parents’ Night Out.” This presentation focuses on key pieces of the campaign’s efforts to stop underage drinking and other drug use before they start. The “Talk. …

MagazineMarch 17, 2021March 17, 2021

March 2021

BlogMarch 31, 2021

OUR WORK BEGINS WHEN WE STEP UP TO THE PLATE

By Beth Price Morrison, Cascade County Prevention Specialist Since 2019, the Cascade County Substance Abuse Prevention Alliance (SAPA) has partnered with the Great Falls Voyagers baseball team to share important messaging with our community about alcohol use and abuse. In 2021, we are excited to be promoting ParentingMontana.org! The Voyagers are very good to us. …

BlogMarch 31, 2021

Fergus County Prom Notes A Huge Success

By: McKenzie Morgan, Fergus County Block Grant Overall, I’d say this event was a huge success! This event allowed me to engage key community stakeholders to include local businesses, the DUI task force, High School Aged Students who attended prom, the parents of these students, and school faculty. The attached messaging was given to …

BlogMarch 31, 2021

Eastern Top 3 from Regional Training

Second Step Program Purchased for Phillips County School Katrena Palmer, Phillips County Block Grant I sat down with the Malta Middle School Counselor and we had an extensive talk about the success of the elementary school Social-Emotional Learning Second Step program within their community. She was loving the results of the kids coming into middle …

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