
Strengthening & Supporting Montana Families
Projects
June 2012 - June 2013
THRIVE -Belgrade Parent Place provides parenting classes, support groups, resource library materials, home visiting, and community resource referrals. Parent Place offers Love and Logic and Parents as Teachers classes, family activities, and the “Dynamite Dads” support group. THRIVE expanded services to the Belgrade Schools including parent education and teacher trainings.
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Anne Swann |
The Forever Families program offers support and parenting education to engage adoptive families with high-risk children. The program utilizes evidence-based curriculum and programming to assist adoptive parents in ongoing parent skill building. The program utilizes peer-support and respite care services.
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Echo Jamieson, Executive Director |
The FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK will be expanding the services to provide parenting classes combining an evidenced-based program, Nurturing Parenting Program, and Native American culture and traditions. Services offered in Crow Agency, Pryor, and Laurel areas.
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Wendy Ochs, Assistant Directort |
The WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER/COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTER offers services to provide the strengthening rural families program including parenting classes and outreach.
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Kelly McIntosh, Executive Director |
The WORD Inc.-the Local Living Family Resource Center in Florence- promotes the strengthening of networks of support for families; schools; and community. Program offers ways to strengthen family and community knowledge of child abuse prevention and strengthen leadership abilities in parents and community leaders.
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Stacey Rye, Executive Director; Allison Dunne, Program Director |
Dawson County Healthy Communities Family Resource Center offers a wide-variety of community-based and prevention-focused programs and activities to strengthen and support families. The Center offers parenting education classes; support groups for parents; self-help parent support groups; Father’s programs; school readiness; youth development; social connections; and resource and referrals.
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Alisa Werner, FRC Director |
The Lewis and Clark City-County Health Department utilizes Year Round Parenting from the Heart parent education and support program; Circle of Security parent education, Parents Anonymous parent support, and Parents As Teachers Home Visitation model. The program is a member of the Early Childhood Coalition of the Greater Helena Area (ECC).
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Marylis Filipovich, Program Manager |
The Nurturing Center provides family and community based programs to children and their families. Services include evidenced-based programs such as Active Parenting, The Nurturing Program and Parenting the Second Time Around. A Resource Library and caregiver support programs combined with a commitment to Early Childhood Education in the community.
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Eileen Donohoue, Executive Director |
Community Health Partners Learning Partners Family Center’s mission is to strengthen and support families in south central Montana. The program offers home visitation services; parent education; social support of families; early childhood education; primary health care access, and a family resource center. The services aimed at enhancing and expanding services to meet the unique needs of families who began parenting as teenagers.
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Cassie Burns, Program Director |
Developmental Education Assistance Program (DEAP) provides a variety of family education, support, childcare, health nutrition, and residential services to families, children and adults. DEAP has expanded services and programs for caregivers, early intervention, supported and community living, family preservation, childcare resource and referrals, and health education.
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Sylvia Danforth, Executive Director |
The Parenting Place provides home-visiting, respite child care, parent education classes, and parent/child visits to a highly underserved population of at-risk families who are currently involved in pre-release or parole programs. The Parenting Place offers technical assistance to connect with other pre-release or parole programs. The Parenting Place also established a statewide coalition to synchronize parent support efforts for families’ affected by incarceration; organizes the Montana Alliance of Families Touched by Incarceration (MAFTI.)
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Teresa Nygaard, Executive Director |
Community Incentive Program will begin to offer community-wide parenting classes using the “Nurturing Program.” The program will be a continuation and expansion of mentoring programs; public information activities that focus on the healthy, positive development of parents and children as well as promotion of child abuse and neglect prevention activities.
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Debra Orozco, Program Director |
District II Alcohol and Drug Program-Family Resource Center offers community-wide parenting education classes using the “Nurturing Program’’, a computer-based program Parenting Wisely; resource and referral services, and a lending library. The Family Resource Center is located in the Richland County Library. The ultimate goal is to foster positive family relationship by continuing to strengthen families in Richland County.
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Jerry Schlepp, Administrator |


