Success Stories by State: Montana

• Northwest Montana Human Resources, Inc. Mutual Self-Help Housing Program
  September 2009
  Northwest Montana Human Resources, Inc operates the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program, which organizes low-income families who are aspiring homeowners into working teams to help one another build their own homes.
• Butte Silver-Bow Primary Care Clinic
  May 2009
  The main goals of the project were to change destructive life patterns and improve the physical and mental health status of residents by providing intensive mental health services, promote collaboration among key health and social service agencies in providing comprehensive services, and educate community members about how, when, and where to get help when they need it.
• Park County Diabetes Project
  May 2009
  The Park County Diabetes Project was developed to instigate a formal process for identifying and tracking patients with diabetes, to coordinate health care services for residents with diabetes, to increase the knowledge of area health care and ancillary providers regarding diabetes management, and to provide diabetes education to patients and families.
• Healthy Nations Initiative
  October 2008
  The Healthy Nations Initiative was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• EMS Live @ Nite
  June 2007
  EMS Live @ Nite is an interactive video conferencing program to help educate volunteer emergency medical services personnel who don’t have easy access to training sites.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• Butte Consortium for Sexual Abuse Prevention
  January 2007
  The Butte Consortium for Sexual Abuse Prevention was formed to address child sexual abuse in Butte and southwest Montana, where the incidence of sexual abuse is unusually high.
• Chronic Care Outreach Program
  January 2007
  The Chronic Care Outreach Program will plan self-management interventions and programs to reduce health disparities and increase access to nationally recommended health care services for residents living with diabetes and other chronic illnesses.
• Cooperative Health Center Patient Mental Health Project
  January 2007
  The three-agency consortium formed for this project will provide access to mental health and substance abuse services, regardless of patients' ability to pay.
• Guide for Preparing Medical Directors Project
  January 2007
  The goal of the project is to develop the Guide for Preparing Medical Directors into an electronically delivered, mentor-supported, self-study program to train medical oversight physicians in rural, frontier, and wilderness locations.
• Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project
  January 2007
  The Rural Access: Mental Health Care Project will increase behavioral and mental health care services to low-income American Indian children and youth living on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in rural northeastern Montana.
• Fort Peck Community College Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This outreach project was established to improve the health and fitness level of the tribal adult population of the Fort Peck Reservation and eligible individuals over the age of 14 living adjacent to the reservation.
• Montana EMT-I Transition Project
  July 2005
  This network helped rural EMS providers integrate into the community and transition to the new training and care standards set forth in EMT-I.
• Richland Health Network
  July 2005
  Using a nurse and social worker team case management model to address community needs, this consortium was designed to provide a coordinated approach to health screening, assessment, and education, and provide case management for residents aged 55 and older who are at risk for preventable hospitalizations.