April 1–15: Schedule your organization’s “Parents’ Night Out” pilot session(s), ideally within the month of May or early June (May 1–June 15). Select a time(s) that will work best for your audience and facilitator(s), most commonly in the early evening after school and work commitments. Email the “Talk. They Hear You.” campaign’s coordinator (Jocie Broth, …
Park Benches PFS Powell Amanda attended a joint city/county parks and trails committee meeting. She heard of the lack of seating and their desire to have benches and reached out to see if anyone else had done something with benches and found out that Dillon had done this through a media campaign and an advertising …
Virtual Color Run – BG Butte Silverbow Butte Cares, Inc. and Butte Central Youth Coalition put on a Virtual Color Run for St. Patrick’s Day as an alternative activity for youth and families in our community. There were 89 participants tota and 9 business sponsors; Northwestern Energy, Butte Family YMCA, Homes for Heroes, Butte Community …
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 …
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 …
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. …
“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. …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
