by Katheryn Houghton, Kaiser Health News, Published in Montana Free Press For seven years, Timothy Jay Fowler rotated between jail, forced psychiatric hospitalization, and freedom. This story also appeared...
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Mara Silvers, Montana Free Press August 5, 2021 Gallatin County officials, community advocates and medical providers have arrived at another crossroads in their efforts to overhaul local mental health...
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NAMI Montana serves Montanans who live with serious mental health conditions and their families. 99.99% of the cases that we work with do not involve violence. But it is enough…
This week, Superintendent Elsie Arntzen recommended significant changes to school accreditation standards. You can find them at this link. NAMI Montana is particularly concerned about the elimination of functional staffing ratios...
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Code Girls United, based out of Kalispell, MT operating after school programs throughout Montana in person and online, was awarded a $50,000 state contract for a Tribal Computer Coding Pilot...
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Montana's mental health treatment system has taken so many hits over the last few years. It began in the 2017-2018 budget crisis and continued on through the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
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Montana's reservation communities struggle with poverty and unemployment. (Department of Labor) Montana's native youth are more than twice as likely to die from suicide as their peers. (Blank Foundation) There...
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NAMI Montana has been working on two pieces of legislation at this year's Congress: the "Guaranteeing Healthcare Access for Personnel Who Served (GHAPS) Act" (Senate Bill 1863) and efforts in...
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Last Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act. Senator Jon Tester sent NAMI Montana this redline version...
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Lewis and Clark County just released their "Behavioral Health Crisis System Analysis." The report was written by Kristal Jones, Kate Salemo, and Brandn Green (JG Research & Evaluation) for Lewis and...
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