Big Fork School District 2023

Bigfork School-Strengthing Partnerships to Improve Student Health Outcomes

The Big Fork School District operates three schools serving 956 students in grades K-12. This project will support the school district in hiring a family health liaison who will work closely with students, families, and staff to connect with needed resources, including the school-based health center. It will also provide staff training and education on the multi-tiered support structure systems. Grant funds will be used for the school district staff time to support the project, and for staff training. The primary partner is Logan Health, which operates the school-based health center.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Term

24 month

2023

Billings School District 2023

Improving Systems and Sustainability for Mental and Behavioral Health

Billings Public Schools (BPS) serves 16,675 students in grades pre-k through 12th grade across thirty-three school buildings, educating 10% of all K-12 public school students in the state. This project will implement a sustainable multi-tiered system of support for behavioral health to proactively address students' needs by aligning academic standards and behavioral expectations. BPS will do this by engaging with a consultant to develop a vision and comprehensive implementation plan based on assessing the needs for improving student wellness and behavioral health. Grant funds will support the consultant, staff time to support the project, supplies, and meetings. BPS will partner with Riverstone Health, which operates two school-based health centers and provides behavioral health support through another grant-funded project; they also hope to strengthen their partnership with the Billings Urban Indian Health Center through this project.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

24 month

2023

Columbia Falls School District #6 2023

HOME – Health Outcomes Made Easy

The Columbia Falls School District is a K-12 district that serves 2,400 students. The district includes two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. The goal of the project is to strengthen the partnership with the school-based health center, integrate the school-based health center into the tiered system of support for the students, and develop a student advisory council. They will use the funds towards the salary of the school district staff member supporting the project, staff training, and outreach. The primary partner is Logan Health, which operates the school-based health center.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Term

24 month

2023

Dodson School District 2023

Dodson School Mental and Physical Health Plan

The Dodson School District will partner with Fort Belknap Tribal Health to improve the health and education outcomes of the students it serves. The Dodson School District is a K-12 public school district in Northcentral Montana serving 85 students, 94% of which are Native American. Fort Belknap Tribal Health received a grant from MHCF in 2022 to implement school-based health centers in Dodson, Harlem, and Hayes-Lodge Pole. This grant will facilitate Dodson School District’s participation in planning, implementation, and sustainability activities in collaboration with Fort Belknap Tribal Health for the school-based health center. As part of this project, the district will identify a staff member to work directly with tribal health. It will also install vape detectors to deter vaping in bathrooms and locker rooms and implement a prevention curriculum. Grant funds will be used to support the project director, supplies, development of a prevention curriculum, and motivational speakers. The vape detectors support the drug-free environment that the district is striving for and will also help the school identify students that would benefit from services. The goal of the partnership between the district and tribal health is to improve the school climate and positively impact disciplinary procedures.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Term

24 month

2023

Helena Indian Alliance 2023

Lewis and Clark County School Based Mental Health 

Helena Indian Alliance is an Urban Indian Health Center and a federally qualified health center look-alike. Through this grant Helena Indian Alliance will implementing school-based health care services in two schools in the Helena School District, Helena High School and CR Anderson Middle School. Initially, they will provide behavioral health services, and they will explore implementing medical services in the future. Grant funds will be used towards the salaries of the behavioral health providers. The primary partner for the project is Helena School District. 

Grant Amount

$125,000

Term

24 month

2023

Helena School District 2023

Helena Public Schools SBHC Implementation Grant

The Helena School District is a public school with 16 schools serving over 7,000 prekindergarten through 12th-grade students in the Helena area. This project will help the district implement school-based health services in its schools in partnership with the Helena Indian Alliance and PureView Health Center. Grant funds will be used to support the salary of the director of student health services. This position oversees district programming and services which support student mental and physical health, including school-based health and school-based health centers.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

12 month

2023

Logan Health Cut Bank 2023

Logan Health- Cut Bank School Based Clinic

Logan Health-Cut Bank is a critical access hospital and rural health clinic serving Glacier County and surrounding communities. With this project, Logan Health-Cut Bank will create a new school-based health center that will improve access to high-quality, affordable health care for students and staff in the Cut Bank School District. The school-based health center will serve over 700 students and 150 school district staff. The school-based health center will be located at the middle school and will serve all eight schools in the district. The services will include primary care and behavioral health services. Grant funds will be used towards the salaries of the medical providers and project supplies. The primary partner is Cut Bank School District.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Term

24 month

2023

Marias Healthcare Services, Inc. 2023

School-Based Healthcare Services in Schools – Montana’s Golden Triangle Region

Marias Healthcare Services is a Community Health Center serving four counties in Montana’s Golden Triangle Region, along with patients from Great Falls and Havre. Through this grant, Marias Healthcare will develop school-based health centers in Valier, Sunburst, and Shelby School Districts, improving access to high-quality, affordable health services and, in turn, supporting better academic outcomes for approximately 680 students. The services will include primary care, mental health screening and referral, diabetes screening, preventive care, and vision screening. Grant funds will be used towards the startup costs, including salaries of the medical providers, recruitment fees, and project supplies. The project partners are the three school districts served: Valier Public Schools, Sunburst Public Schools, and Shelby Public Schools.

Grant Amount

$286,280

Term

24 month

2023

Missoula County Public Schools 2023

Integrated School-Based Supports: A Vision for Coordinated Care

The Missoula County Public Schools District (MCPS) is a K-12 district that serves 9,763 students. The district includes nine elementary schools, three middle schools, and three high schools. The goal of the project is to implement the Community Schools model and the multi-tiered systems of support structure within the district. They will do this by developing an organizational and operational infrastructure to weave together school, home, and community resources, including health, children, and family resources. They will use the funds to hire a school coordinator at one of the identified high-priority schools with the goal of developing the framework to expand to the rest of the district. They will partner closely with Partnership Health, which operates the school-based health center in the district.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

12 month

2023

PureView Health Center 2023

PureView School Based Health Center

Pureview Health Center is a Community Health Center serving Lewis and Clark County and Lincoln. With this project, Pureview Health Center will improve access to high-quality, affordable health care by implementing school-based health care in Helena School District. Initially, they will provide behavioral health services, with the goal of implementing primary care services in years two and three. Grant funds will be used towards the salaries of the clinicians and project supplies. The primary partner for the project is the Helena School District.

Grant Amount

$125,000

Term

36 month

2023

School Administrators of Montana 2023

Strengthening Initiatives in School-Based Behavioral Health Services in Montana

The School Administrators of Montana (SAM) is a nonprofit organization supporting the professional needs of more than 1000 public school leaders across Montana. There are six affiliate organizations that make up the SAM Governing Board. Those groups include superintendents, high school principals, elementary principals, special education directors, technology directors, and county superintendents. The project aims to strengthen partnerships to support school-based health services. They will do this by completing a formal inventory of school-based health services, developing a resource guide, and providing technical assistance to schools and health partners. Grant funds will be used for staff, contracts, and travel for meetings. The confirmed partners for the project are the Office of Public Instruction, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, the University of Montana's Montana Safe Schools Center, and the SAM-associated affiliates.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

24 month

2023

Vaughn Public Schools 2023

School Based Health Center Awareness and Enhancement

The Vaughn School District is a K-8 school district that educates approximately 150 students. Vaughn School District is located 14 miles from Great Falls and does not have health services available in the community aside from the school-based health center. This project will enhance the partnership between the district and the school-based health center that is operated by Alluvion Health. Grant funds will be used for partial salaries of staff positions that will support increased communication about the available services, district participation on the advisory committee, and the development of tiered systems of support for students that includes the school-based health center.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Term

24 month

2023

Blackfeet Tribal Health 2022

Southern Piegan School Health – TeleHealth

Blackfeet Tribal Health's school-based health center, Southern Piegan School Health, will implement a telehealth program to increase access to medical and behavioral health services for students and staff. Southern Piegan School Health provides school-based health services to rural communities throughout the Blackfeet Reservation. This project will increase access to services in Browning, Babb, Heart Butte, and East Glacier. This project will implement telehealth services to enhance the services provided by the physical school-based health center. Funding will support a nurse and software to run the telehealth program. Project partners include the Blackfeet Tribe and the Browning and Heart Butte School Districts.

Grant Amount

$300,000

Term

36 month

2022

Browning Public Schools 2022

Browning Public School staff & students Wellness Project

The Browning School District will host monthly holistic wellness activities for students and staff to improve the school wellness climate. These activities will be done in collaboration with community partners, including Blackfeet Tribal Health and the on-site school-based health center. These monthly activities aim to increase awareness and access to services, including the school-based health center. Browning School District is located on the Blackfeet Reservation; the school district serves approximately 98% American Indian population and is the largest geographical school district in the state of Montana. Grant funds will be used for consultants' participation in the events, supplies, and outreach. The primary partners for the project are Browning School District, Blackfeet Tribal Health, Blackfeet Crystal Creek, Honor Your Life programs, Fast Blackfeet, Blackfeet Manpower, Blackfeet Native Connections Culture and Hope and Rise above Stigma, and Blackfeet Tobacco Prevention Program.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Term

24 month

2022

Evergreen School District 50 2022

School and Health Community Liaison

Evergreen School District will improve student health and academic outcomes by connecting students and families with health services on school grounds. The Evergreen School District covers the Kalispell area and serves kids from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. This District will hire a school and health community liaison to strengthen the partnership between the school and the school-based health center run by the Greater Valley Health Center. Working closely with staff from the school district and the health center, the liaison will establish relationships with students and their families to help them better understand and access the health services provided by the district. Grant funds will support the liaison’s position and travel costs for meeting with students and families. Primary partners for this project include the Evergreen School District, Greater Valley Health Center, and Intermountain.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

24 month

2022

Fort Belknap Tribal Health 2022

School-Based Health Program: Pearson Project

The Fort Belknap Indian Community (FBIC) Tribal Health Department, in partnership with the Harlem, Dodson, and Hays-Lodgepole school systems, will begin providing school-based health services. The project aims to improve the health, wellness, and educational systems to support higher academic achievement among all students attending each school. The Tribe will provide behavioral health services and primary care in school-based health centers. The project seeks to improve the overall school climate, enhance the classroom experience for teachers and students, and ultimately reduce student disciplinary referrals and improve academic and health outcomes. Funding will support the contracted position with Xanovea to lead the project and a salaried behavioral health psychologist position. Primary partners are the Office of Public Instruction, the FBIC Tribal Health Department, the FBIC Tribal Council Education Committee, and the Dodson, Harlem, and Hays Lodge Pole Schools. 

Grant Amount

$300,000

Term

36 month

2022

Heart Butte Schools 2022

School-based Case Management Enhancement Project

Heart Butte Public Schools will enhance their collaboration with the school-based health center to promote positive health outcomes within the school and community. This project will build on the already-established relationship between Blackfeet Tribal Health and Heart Butte Schools by providing a liaison to the school-based health center. This will increase awareness and access to school-based services. Heart Butte Public Schools is a K-12 Public School located in the community of Heart Butte, Montana, which is in the southeast portion of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Pondera County. Grant funds will be used to hire and support a part of the salary of a full-time case manager. The primary partners for the project are Heart Butte School District and Blackfeet Tribal Health, which operates the school-based health center.

Grant Amount

$25,000

Term

24 month

2022

Kalispell Regional Medical Center Inc. dba Logan Health Medical Center 2022

Logan Health SBHC Mobile Clinic

Kalispell Regional Medical Center dba Logan Health Medical Center (LHMC) is the medical hub of a nonprofit health system headquartered in the Flathead Valley of northwest Montana. This project will allow LHMC to begin providing primary, preventive, and behavioral health services to students in rural schools located in the communities of Kila, Marion, and Smith Valley and to expand behavioral health services to the Big Fork School District. LHMC will implement a Mobile School-Based Health Center to serve Kila, Marion, and Smith Valley rural schools that do not have the appropriate physical space for an on-site health center. They will also expand mental and behavioral health services to the Bigfork School District and provide these services on-site at the school. Medical, behavioral, and mental health care will be offered to students and staff of these rural schools. Telehealth services will be integrated throughout the school-based program to serve the target populations’ integrated health needs. Grant funds will offset medical and behavioral health providers’ salaries, supplies, and outreach and communications. The primary partners for this project are four school districts, including Kila, Marion, Smith Valley, and Big Fork.

Grant Amount

$299,993

Term

36 months

2022

Southwest Montana Community Health Center 2022

West Elementary School-Based Clinic

The Southwest Montana Community Health Center (SWMTCHC) will expand school-based health services to the students of West Elementary in the Butte school district, the second school in which they will offer health services. The health center will help improve the students' health, which, in turn, will support their attendance and education. SWMTCHC will provide the medical and behavioral staff needed to offer services to students on-site at West Elementary. Funding will support a part-time behavioral health provider. Project partners include West Elementary School and the Butte School District.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

24 month

2022

Northern Cheyenne Tribal Board of Health 2021

Northern Cheyenne School Wellness Project

Through this project, the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Board of Health will provide essential mental health and primary care services through a mobile unit and three school-based settings on the Northern Cheyenne Nation. The schools include Northern Cheyenne Head Start, Lame Deer Public Schools, and the Northern Cheyenne Tribal School. The first year of the grant will focus on planning: creating policies and procedures, preparation for on-site care, increasing trauma-informed engagement, measuring school climate, and implementing alternatives to out-of-school discipline policies. The remaining years of the grant will allow for piloting and implementing new health services. Funding will support a project coordinator, community liaison, a mobile clinic, and medical supplies at all three on-site clinic locations. Partners include the three school sites, the Montana State University College of Nursing, and the Montana Office of Public Instruction.

Grant Amount

$274,998

Term

36 months

2021

Partnership Health Center 2021

Building a Comprehensive School-Based Behavioral Health System at Lowell Elementary School

Partnership Health Center is a federally qualified health center located in Missoula with two satellite clinics in Seeley Lake and Superior. Through this grant, Partnership Health Center will provide behavioral health services in Lowell Elementary School, bringing a comprehensive support system for students during classroom time and out-of-school programming. Behavioral health services will focus on prevention and wellness, fostering academic success and healthy social-emotional development. A behavioral health professional at the school will provide individual and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and training for school staff, support staff, and student caregivers. Funding will support the behavioral health professional's salary. Primary partners include Lowell Elementary, Missoula County Public Schools, and Missoula Parks and Recreation (the on-site, out-of-school program provider).

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

24 month

2021

Sapphire Community Health, Inc 2021

Ravalli County School Wellness Program

Sapphire Community Health is a Federally Qualified Health Center that provides medical and behavioral health services to the underserved population in Ravalli County. This implementation project will open a school-based health center in two school districts, Hamilton and Victor. Sapphire will provide behavioral health and medical services on designated days of the week at each district. They will provide behavioral health services onsite and medical services in their mobile unit. Funding will support the behavioral health provider/school-based health services coordinator, a nurse, and startup costs and supplies. This project is a close collaboration among Sapphire Community Health, Victor School District, and Hamilton School District.

Grant Amount

$263,273

Term

24 month

2021

Southwest Montana Community Health Center 2021

Kennedy Elementary School-Based Clinic

Southwest Montana Community Health Center (SMCHC) is a federally qualified health center with clinics and pharmacies in Madison, Silver-Bow, Anaconda-Deer Lodge, and Beaverhead counties. This project will develop a school-based health center in Kennedy Elementary School, a school in which nearly 100% of students qualify for free and reduced-price meals and in which many students have low attendance rates. The health center will help improve the students' health, which will support their attendance and education. The health center will provide on-site medical and behavioral health services to students and their families. It will also offer other services like dental screenings, care management, pharmacy, and insurance assistance. Funding will support health center staff and IT services. Kennedy Elementary School (School District No. 1) is the project's primary partner along with other community groups like the local health department and Action Inc.

Grant Amount

$125,000

Term

24 month

2021

Alluvion Health 2020

Alluvion Health Vaugh Schools

Alluvion Health will implement school-based health services, including medical, dental, and behavioral health, in Vaughn Public School. Vaughn Public School is a K-8 school located 15 miles from Great Falls. Alluvion will use a newly acquired mobile unit to provide dental services and provide medical and behavioral health services within the school. Grant funds will cover startup costs including salaries for the staff providing services. The project’s goal is to offer health services to the students and staff members of Vaughn Public School and the surrounding communities of Sun River, Fort Shaw, and Simms and in turn, to improve students’ ability to learn and succeed in school.

Grant Amount

$100,000

Term

24 month

2020

Flathead Community Health Center 2020

School Based Health Centers – Primary Care

Flathead Community Health Center (FCHC) will implement school-based medical services at Linderman Alternative High School and Evergreen Schools in Kalispell. Through a previous grant, FCHC is already providing behavioral health services at both schools and has built strong relationships with each school's administration. This project will expand the services the health center offers to include medical care for students, school staff, and the surrounding community. Both schools have begun remodeling to create space for the health center to provide medical services on the school campuses. Grant funds will support staff salaries, including a school-based health center coordinator and primary care provider.

Grant Amount

$150,000

Term

24 month

2020

Montana Office of Public Instruction 2020

School Wellness

The Office of Public Instruction (OPI) will partner with the Montana Healthcare Foundation (MHCF) to support the implementation of a new initiative focused on school wellness. This initiative will support new partnerships between schools and high-performing health care providers (including federally qualified health centers, rural health centers, tribal health departments, and behavioral health providers) to create school-based health centers. The initiative will target roughly 70 schools with the highest concentration of students most in need of services, as judged by academic and health data (including alternative schools and those with the lowest academic performance). OPI will use grant funding to hire a new staff person dedicated to supporting the initiative. As part of this project, OPI will help enlist school participation and provide trauma-informed care training, coaching, and academic data reporting support. They will also help schools plan and implement participation in their Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) for students with behavioral issues, and identify and implement restorative discipline practices. Beyond MHCF and OPI, other partnerships that will be developed include local school districts, clinical service partners, public health, and the School-Based Health Alliance. The project’s overall goal is to improve student health and academic outcomes by providing in-school access to health care services and fostering a supportive school climate.

Grant Amount

$100,000

Term

24 month

2020

One Health 2020

Integrated and Sustainable School-Based Health Care in Bighorn County

Bighorn Valley Health Center (BVHC) will begin providing school-based health services in the Hardin High School, Crow Agency Public School, and the Wyola School District. School-based health services – delivered through a combination of in-person and virtual visits – will be available for students, school staff, and the surrounding community. Grant funds will support salaries for project management and partnership liaison staff. The project’s goal is to bring needed health services to rural and frontier communities in the southcentral region of the state.

Grant Amount

$300,000

Term

24 month

2020

Sapphire Community Health, Inc. 2020

Sapphire’s School Wellnes Project

The goal of the Sapphire Community Health (SCH) School Wellness Project was to bring medical and mental health services to children in schools where they are not currently available. SCH completed the planning process to implement school-based services in the Victor School District and the Hamilton School District. It did not move forward with the Stevensville School District as originally planned. In the Victor schools, SCH implemented both nursing and mental health services on a weekly basis. The mobile medical unit that was created to provide services made several visits to the schools to provide additional medical services. The nurse and mental health provider have developed a positive rapport with the students, faculty, and surrounding community, as well as a strong partnership with district administrators. SCH established a mental health provider in the Hamilton schools several days a week, and there has been high demand for her services. SCH intends to sustain these services and activities beyond the grant term by billing for the chargeable medical and mental health services provided.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Term

12 month

2020

Community Health Partners 2019

School Wellness with Community Health Partners and Belgrade School District

Community Health Partners (CHP) and the Belgrade School District used this grant to establish the first school-based health clinic in Belgrade at the Belgrade Middle School. The clinic is housed in a remodeled classroom space and offers both medical and behavioral health services, including vaccinations, sports physicals, concussion management, and athletic injury follow-ups. CHP currently offers medical services three days per week and behavioral health services one day per week, but it plans on expanding the behavioral health services through a partnership with Intermountain in 2022. Since opening, the clinic has been staffed with a physician's assistant and a cross-trained medical assistant who is able to register patients and connect them to additional services with CHP and in the community. In 2021, the clinic provided care to 306 patients, and more than 80 students received free sports physicals. The pandemic created challenges due to school closures and staffing shortages, but the clinic continued to provide services, as well as COVID vaccines. The clinic will remain open following the grant term, and CHP is working to meet the increased need for school sports physicals and behavioral health services. A post-grant interview was conducted with Belgrade School District Administration and the convenience and increased access to services were noted as biggest benefits to the partnership. Access to mental health and medical services on-site increased classroom time because students did not have to leave the building to get services. The school-based health center also positively impacted students’ ability to stay up to date on immunizations and to get sports physicals in a timely manner.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Term

24 month

2019

Community Health Partners 2019

Bozeman School-Based Health Center

Community Health Partners (CHP) implemented a school-based health center with behavioral health services at Bozeman High School and Gallatin High School, with the goal of improving health outcomes, increasing attendance, decreasing disciplinary events, and supporting students’ overall school success. In partnership with Intermountain and Bozeman School District 7, CHP placed a licensed therapist with experience working with adolescents at the schools, providing barrier-free access to behavioral health services to students and their families. The project served more than 50 students and families in 800 encounters in the last year of the project. The partners have solidified and improved their processes for identifying and referring appropriate students; registering students as CHP patients via online registration forms; incorporating telehealth tools to ensure access; engaging families with additional services available at CHP, such as medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and resource coordination; and streamlining the onboarding and offboarding processes for new therapists to work within the partnership. The partners intend to continue working together to offer these services and hope to expand their evaluation measures.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

24 month

2019

Flathead Community Health Center 2019

School Based Health Centers

Through this grant the Flathead Community Health Center (FCHC) implemented school-based outpatient behavioral health services in several schools in the Kalispell area. FCHC partnered with the Flathead, Bigfork, and Evergreen school districts to place licensed behavioral health clinicians in the schools. The services were provided through partnerships with Greater Valley Health Center (GVHC) and Intermountain. The partners were able to establish services at all the schools they had originally targeted, as well as Kalispell Middle School, which is the largest middle school in Flathead County. GVHC was able to add psychiatric nurse practitioner services at the alternative high school, and it partnered with Intermountain to hire a shared behavioral health director. One significant challenge the project faced was hiring qualified behavioral health therapists, which meant that some schools that wanted a full-time therapist were forced to share with another school. Another challenge arose when GVHC transitioned from being a public health center to an independent health center, which required it to re-credential as a new entity with Medicaid and private insurers. This has held up the project’s ability to bill Medicaid, but the situation should ultimately be resolved. The partners are confident they will be able to continue providing these services and are working on expanding them in order to meet the significant need for behavioral health care in schools.

Grant Amount

$100,000

Term

24 month

2019

Partnership Health Center 2019

Redesigning School Based Behavioral Health at Willard Alternative High School in Missoula, Montana

This project helped Partnership Health Center (PHC) and Missoula County Public Schools implement school-based behavioral health services at Willard High School. The goal was to provide critical mental health services to the high-risk students at this alternative high school, half of whom are homeless. A full-time licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) was embedded on-site to provide behavioral health care and care management. PHC’s behavioral health director provided professional supervision for the LCSW and advised on the design and evaluation of the program. The LCSW was able to increase program engagement by improving communication with faculty, targeting potential patients, speeding up the intake process, and reducing barriers to care. In addition to providing one-on-one care, the LCSW offered drop-in appointments, group sessions, and social interactions, allowing more students with behavioral health needs to receive care. The LCSW logged 932 encounters from a pool of 39 patients. These interactions led to an increase in access to overall medical care as well, with the LCSW helping students and their family members get set up for medical and dental services. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic when students were not on site, the LCSW continued to offer care through telehealth visits. The program, which is now self-sustaining, is looking to identify solutions for students needing more intensive care, as well as resources for those who continue to need care after they graduate. A post-grant interview was conducted with Willard’s Principal. He credits the partnership with helping students regulate day-to-day and a greater return of students from long school breaks.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Term

24 month

2019

PureView Health Center 2019

Implementation of East Helena SBHC

PureView Health Center and East Helena Public Schools used this grant to establish a school-based health center. The center is based at an elementary school but serves all schools in East Helena, as well as the general public. The project's goal was to improve health outcomes, increase school attendance, decrease disciplinary events, and achieve overall school success. The health center offers medical, dental, behavioral health, and pharmaceutical services. Since opening in May 2019, the site has faced many challenges. The original provider of mental health services did not work out, so PureView had to step in to find providers. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, this site became PureView's COVID center, which disrupted regular medical services. The district also experienced a superintendent change in late 2020. Despite these challenges, PureView continues to offer services to students and the East Helena community at the school-based site. While the clinic is still operating at a loss, PureView and its board of directors are committed to providing these services and optimistic that they will become self-sustaining in the longer term. A post-grant interview was conducted with East Helena School District Administration and the biggest impacts that he noted are students access to mental health services while missing less class time and school district’s staff access to services on-site.

Grant Amount

$70,000

Term

24 month

2019