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River Valley Farmer’s Market

River Valley Farmer’s Market River Valley Farmer’s Market aims to increase access to local fresh food, promote local businesses, promote physical activity, support community engagement, provide health education, and connect families to needed services. The River Valley Farmer’s Market combines food sales with health promotion in a new way. The Farmer’s Market includes access to […]

Eat Smart

Eat Smart Eat Smart is part of the public health project to improve the health of Missoula area residents through education, partnerships, policy, and environmental changes. This program is part of the Missoula Public Health Department. Eat Smart began in 2005, first funded through a NAPA grant and then through the City-County Health Department as […]

Montana Healthy Food and Communities Initiative

Montana Healthy Food and Communities Initiative (MHFCI) Montana Healthy Food and Communities Initiative (MHFCI) encompasses three projects that work together to bring healthy, local foods to people across the state: the FoodCorps program, the Farm to Cafeteria Network, and the Grow Montana Food Policy Coalition. Together, these projects work to combat childhood obesity, reduce childhood […]

Northern Winds Recovery Center

Northern Winds Recovery Center The mission of the Northern Winds Recovery Center is “striving to build resilient children, nurturing family needs, and restoring cultural strengths by creating opportunities for care.” They do this by responding to behavioral health issues through prevention, intervention, treatment, rehabilitation and asset building services and by sharing hope and caring to […]

Community Protective Measures Program: The Soil Swap Program

Community Protective Measures Program The Community Protective Measures Program (CPMP) is a county educational program to address Superfund related community concerns. Their goal is to ensure a clean and safe environment for all residents of Anaconda through education and outreach. The CPMP accomplishes its mission of protecting human health through education, outreach, and providing a […]

Profile of the Week: Adult Resource Alliance Care Transition Team of Yellowstone County

Adult Resource Alliance Care Transition Team of Yellowstone County Adult Resource Alliance Care Transition Team of Yellowstone County aims to decrease utilization of emergency and hospital services in Yellowstone County by providing wraparound services for residents who are “super-utilizers” of emergency room and hospital services. The Care Transition Team receives client referrals from Billings Clinic, […]

Improving Health Among Rural Americans (IPHARM)

RHI Profile of the Week Improving Health Among Rural Americans (IPHARM) Improving Health Among Rural Americans (IPHARM) is a project that focuses on increasing access to preventative health care services for rural and frontier Montanans. This project provides these health care services in many ways, such as providing health screening services, serving as rural ambulatory care […]

Fresh Food Initiative

RHI Profile of the Week: Fresh Food Initiative The Fresh Food Initiative aims to increase Montana residents’ access to healthy food and local products. The Fresh Food Initiative works on various activities, including: the Helena Food Share revitalization, distribution of locally grown food through the mobile farm stand; increasing nutritious food options through the Grocery […]

Montana Tobacco Use and Prevention Program

On July 1, 2019, the Montana Tobacco Quit Line launched My Life, My Quit, a new free program specifically for youth under 18 who need help quitting tobacco (cigarettes, smokeless, cigars/cigarillos and e-cigarettes). Tobacco use among Montana youth remains high; one third of high school students currently use at least one form of tobacco product. E-cigarettes are […]

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