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2216 Boot Hill Court, Suite 3
Bozeman, MT 59715
(406) 600-5007
https://www.cedarcreekintegratedhealth.org/
“Our goal is to help individuals, children, and families understand health, healing, and wellness as it relates to our thoughts, emotions, behaviors, addiction, social interactions, environments, physical and spiritual well-being. We see our patients as partners in their care.” Providers offer assistance with Mental Health therapy and counseling, prescriptions and health, and addiction/substance abuse recovery services. Cedar Creek accepts all major insurance including Medicaid and Medicare.
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292 W. Haley Springs Rd, Ste 2
Bozeman, MT 59718
(406) 589-6518
READ Montana strives to inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. They offer an evaluation process that identifies individual challenges and maps out a program of intervention. They specialize in evidence-based instruction to close the academic gap and lay the groundwork for future success. They also provide guidance and support for navigating academic challenges.
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(406) 585-4858
https://thehrdc.org/emerging-adults/young-adult-housing/
The Blueprint Continuum is a transitional housing program that provides youth-empowered, strength-based, and solution-focused support to youth experiencing either homelessness or housing instability. Young adults aged 16-24, who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence are eligible. Emerging adults receive support in the following areas: educational attainment, employment and soft skill development, increase in social competencies, fostering healthy boundaries, and integrate conflict resolution skills.
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https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/2-year-old-cody-girl-dies-after-being-hospitalized-in-alleged-abuse-case
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Brice Larson
(406)213-9614
Resilience Visitation offers supervised visits and parent coaching for families involved with CFS using evidenced-based models that lessen the likelihood of future state interventions in the family. Depending on the situation we can work with parents in home, community, or office settings.
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2246 Boot Hill Court #4
Bozeman, MT 59715
(406) 579-4984
Providence Mental Health is a Bozeman-based counseling facility that utilizes a unique clinical approach known as the Treatment Team Model. Each client, whether individual, as a couple, or within a family system receives their own clinician within a treatment team. These team members collaborate to assist family members while maintaining individual confidentiality and assisting the family to dissolve barriers and improve relationships. We also combine strengths-based, trauma-informed, and family systems treatment models to help patients identify and overcome past trauma so they can lead healthier, happier lives. Providence accepts all kinds of insurance including Medicare and Medicaid.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/challenge-finding-home-foster-child-pandemic/616673/
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https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/womens-recovery-home-seeks-to-fill-a-need-in-gallatin-valley?fbclid=IwAR0i7excvgrBMHxbnEFwaDiVDPpPaDrvgPUk85FwojaC7AWaPXRx_ZEmPFQ
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201 W. Madison Ave., #1
Belgrade, MT 59714
(406) 813-8883
Contact@bhcsmt.com
BHCS aims to support healthcare providers by providing clinical and home based services. The team of behavioral health professionals have pioneered diagnostic and intervention techniques that have helped identify and treat neurodiverse community members. BHCS focuses on maximizing health information technology and utilizes the data from evidence-based screening tools to accurately triage and diagnose patients with behavioral health conditions. They use data from self-report tools to measure response to treatment and to make informed interventions at the point of care
Goals:
– Our clients and staff feel emotionally connected to each other and to a larger purpose.
– Continuous growth as individuals; personal, professional, and clinical.
– As a team to do our best to face challenges with courage and hope.
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https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/why-surge-foster-care-placement-will-follow-covid-pandemic/NKtnijOQwZpfsL8XypJsrL/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/virus-child-abuse.html
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https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/its-not-where-you-come-from-its-where-you-belong-the-lantz-family-adoption-story
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/child-abuse-fears-increase-families-isolate-coronavirus-pandemic/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/coronavirus-child-abuse.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR01dLcbOFk0TwxIEUT0UuTNS52s69D9ERgqhCRS-iY6vK3dNwJiqYglFvs
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/delays-despair-coronavirus-pandemic-halts-family-reunification-hearings/story?id=69904950
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Author: Kevin Jennings
Growing up poor in the South, Kevin Jennings learned a lot of things, especially about how to be a real man. When his father, a fundamentalist preacher, dropped dead at his son’s eighth birthday party, Kevin already knew he wasn’t supposed to cry. He also knew there was no salvation for homosexuals, who weren’t “real men”, or Christians for that matter. But, Jennings found his salvation in school, inspired by his mother. Self-taught from Appalachia, her formal education ended in sixth grade, but she was determined that her son would be the first member of their extended family to go to college, even if it meant going North. Kevin, propelled by her dream, found a world beyond poverty by gaining entrance into Harvard and learning that it truly was possible to live openly as a gay man.
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Author: Eduardo Bonnilla-Silva
Eduardo Bonnilla-Silva’s acclaimed book documents how, beneath our contemporary conversations about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for-and ultimately justify-racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the Obama presidency, Trump’s presidency and a new chapter addressing what readers can do to confront racism, both personally and on a larger structural level.
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Author: Dr. Vera Fahlberg
Although much is available in the field of child welfare literature about families and casework policies and procedures, there is little available that has the child as its primary focus. This book delves into a child’s feelings, needs and behaviors once the decision has been made to place the child in foster care.
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Author: Laura B. Gerassi
This book analyzes the current research and best practices for working with children, adolescents and adults involved in sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation (CSE). With a unique, research based focus on practice, the book synthesizes the key areas related to working with victims of sex trafficking, including prevention, identification, practice techniques and program design.
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Author: John DeGarmo
This book explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them.
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Author: Karen Addison
This practical resource will help countless children, families and trusted adults make sense of an angry parent, show how to love them and still be able to stand up and speak up, and teach ways to keep themselves safe.
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Author: Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
This book uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self control and trust. Dr. Van Der Kolk explores innovative treatments-from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama and yoga-that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s neuroplasticity.
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Authors: Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton
Deeply moving testimonies by women survivors of child sexual abuse.
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Author: Dr. Frank J. Granett
Dr. Granett provides new knowledge for parents, educators, all healthcare professionals and public health policy makers to determine the cause of behavioral symptoms prior to the use of psychoactive drug therapy in children.
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Author: Linda Smith
To millions of Americans, the trafficking of children for commercial sexual purposes only happens somewhere else-not on Main Street, USA. Yet, it is abundantly clear that today, at least 100,000 children are being used as commodities for sale or trade in cities across the nation. These children are 21st century slaves and cannot walk away.
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Author: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Your biography becomes your biology. The emotional trauma we suffer as children not only shapes our emotional lives as adults but also affects our physical health, longevity and overall well-being. When children encounter sudden or chronic adversity, stress hormones cause powerful changes in the body, altering the body’s chemistry. Donna Jackson Nakazawa shares stories from people who have recognized and overcome their adverse experiences, shows why some children are more immune to stress than others, and explains why women are at particular risk.
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Author: Beth Macy
Chronicles America’s more than twenty year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of Oxycontin in 1996 through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia to the current national crisis.
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A two-part HBO documentary exploring the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James Safechuck, at age 10, and Wade Robson, at age 7, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. This film crafts a portrait of sustained abuse, exploring the complicated feelings that led both men to confront their experiences after both had sons of their own.
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This documentary examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior modifying drugs for children. Are these medications really necessary–and safe–for young children, or merely a harried nation’s quick fix for annoying yet age-appropriate behavior?
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This documentary takes viewers into the world of underaged American girls caught up in the violent sex trade. Thousands of girls under the age of 18 are ensnared into the lives of prostitution annually, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Many are runaways or “throwaways”, trapped in the “the oldest profession” by pimps who sell them.
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This film addresses the impact of domestic violence on children. Research shows those impacts can last a lifetime. Children exposed to violence in the home often experience psychosomatic illnesses, depression and suicidal tendencies. Later in life, these children are at greater risk for substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and criminal behavior than those raised in homes without violence.
https://www.pbs.org/video/new-mexico-pbs-public-square-public-square-june-2013/
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Foster youth who exit the system at 18 have less than a 4% chance to ever complete college. There is a 25% chance they will be homeless. Higher education administration and faculty need to be a part of the solution by rethinking local engagement in order to help this group of youth be prepared for, apply to and complete college.
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Seven LGBTQ youth from the foster care system share their stories. Failed by their families, these young people go on to face rejection from foster families, invisibility within the system and incredible obstacles to healthy development.
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A thought-provoking 20-minute documentary presenting a group of adoptees who discuss their experiences growing up in transracial adoptive families. They delve into complex issues such as confronting stereotypes, fitting in with their culture of origin and learning to define themselves in terms of race and culture.
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Includes candid perspectives from high school and college students, as well as nationally recognized experts, challenging the misperceived “safety” and effectiveness of using prescriptive stimulants without a doctor’s prescription. It serves as a catalyst to inform discussions about what parents and communities can do to support teens struggling to manage stress.
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This video is told from the perspective of a teenager and his family and shows how quickly the use of banned substances in social situations almost seamlessly spirals into an addiction to opiates.
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Tells the inside story of a mother, Terri Milbrandt, who pretended her daughter had cancer and appealed to her close-knit community for help to pay the medical bills.
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https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/11/22/foster-family-who-raised-slain-child-explains-how-system-failed-him/4275866002/?cid=facebook_Great_Falls_Tribune
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https://casaforchildren.org/the-national-casa-association-is-increasing-awareness-about-the-nations-most-vulnerable-children/
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https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/montana/montana-supreme-court-overturns-parental-rights-termination/article_0d4b1598-4d65-5d80-8429-6345899e8df1.html
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Author: Shenandoah Chefalo
Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo’s wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness.
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With one in eight American children suffering a confirmed case of neglect or abuse by age 18, there are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S., a number that continues to grow each year. Drawing on unprecedented access, HBO’s FOSTER explores the often-misunderstood world of foster care through compelling stories from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, the largest county child welfare agency in the country. The documentary mixes firsthand accounts of people navigating the system with insights from social workers, advocates and others, offering a realistic but hopeful perspective on a community that needs society’s support.
https://www.hbo.com/content/hboweb/en/documentaries/foster/about.html
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The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was enacted in 1978 in response to a crisis affecting American Indian and Alaska Native children, families, and tribes. ICWA sets federal requirements that apply to state child custody proceedings involving an Indian child who is a member of or eligible for membership in a federally recognized tribe. For more information, please visit any of the links below.
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https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/politics/court-case-centers-on-native-american-kids-in-foster-care/article_bdce7dd4-8d54-5004-a8d0-e48c1022138e.html
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https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/nonprofit-needs-volunteers-to-advocate-for-kids/article_7774052a-e79b-5c10-94f8-bbb67a2d570f.html
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https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/nonprofit-expands-to-bozeman-seeks-foster-parents/article_5e35750c-72f2-58d5-9b8e-03c75bfa64da.html
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https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/still-in-crisis-despite-reforms-montana-s-foster-care-system/article_30ebb82a-d808-5959-ac67-6fcd51745e0b.html
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Save the date: #GiveBigGV is 6 pm on May 2 to 6 pm on May 3! You can be part of the celebration by giving to your favorite nonprofit (which we know is us!) Visit http://www.givebiggv.org and search for CASA/GAL of Gallatin County to find out more.
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Our next CASA Training is scheduled for September 2025. Volunteers participate in 30+ hours of pre-service training to prepare them to build relationships with a child who has come from hard places, to investigate and monitor the case and to learn how to effectively advocate for the needs and best interest of that child. Please visit our Volunteer Page to access the application and FAQs.
The training schedule at this time is:
*Applicants must be able to attend all of the sessions. Rare exceptions can be made – please call our office to discuss absences and their impact on successful completion.
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Author: Debby Irving
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, she reveals how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated her ill-conceived ideas about race. She also explains why and how she’s changed the way she talks about racism, works in racially mixed groups, and understands the antiracism movement as a whole. Exercises at the end of each chapter prompt readers to explore their own racialized ideas. Waking Up White’s personal narrative is designed to work well as a rapid read, a book group book, or support reading for courses exploring racial and cultural issues.
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Author: Sonia Nazario
Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this astonishing story puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States. Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his wit, courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers.
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Author: Andres Resendez
A landmark history — the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians — as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. The Other Slavery reveals nothing less than a key missing piece of American history. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed truly to see.
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Author: Sherman Alexie
War Dances is a collection of short stories and poems by Sherman Alexie, most of which focus on Native Americans in contemporary settings, and which deal with themes that include loneliness, unexpected surprises, the influence of history, and so on. In the poem “The Limited,” the narrator wonders why poets always think they can change the world when really all they can change is themselves.
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Author: Jeff Hobbs
Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto known as “Illtown.” His unwed mother worked long hours in a kitchen. His charismatic father was later convicted of a double murder. Peace’s intellectual brilliance and hard-won determination earned him a full scholarship to Yale University. At college, while majoring in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, he straddled the world of academia and the world of the street, never revealing his full self in either place. Upon graduation from Yale, he went home to teach at the Catholic high school he’d attended, slid into the drug trade, and was brutally murdered at age thirty.
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Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
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Author: Bryan Stevenson
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
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Author: Ijeoma Oluo
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today’s racial landscape–from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement–offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide.
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Author: Susan Burton
In this “stirring and moving tour-de-force” (John Legend), Susan Burton movingly recounts her own journey through the criminal justice system and her transformation into a life of advocacy. After a childhood of immense pain, poverty, and abuse in Los Angeles, the tragic loss of her son led her into addiction, which in turn led to arrests and incarceration. During the War on Drugs, Burton was arrested and would cycle in and out of prison for more than fifteen years. When, by chance, she finally received treatment, her political awakening began and she became a powerful advocate for “a more humane justice system guided by compassion and dignity” (Booklist, starred review). Her award-winning organization, A New Way of Life, has transformed the lives of more than one thousand formerly incarcerated women and is an international model for a less punitive and more effective approach to rehabilitation and reentry.
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Author: J.D. Vance
In his personal memoir, the author gives an incredible picture of his life growing up in a poor, white American family. Vance takes us through his family’s life and legacy, offering a smart and honest analysis of a declining culture and the social problems that come along with it. Though Vance himself managed to break the destructive cycle, he gains a stark understanding of what he was up against and how it has affected his adult life.
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Author: Josephine Ensign
At the beginning of the homelessness epidemic in the 1980s, Josephine Ensign was a young, white, Southern, Christian wife, mother, and nurse running a new medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of the South. Through her work and intense relationships with patients and co-workers, her worldview was shattered, and after losing her job, family, and house, she became homeless herself. She reconstituted her life with altered views on homelessness—and on the health care system. In Catching Homelessness, Ensign reflects on how this work has changed her and how her work has changed through the experience of being homeless—providing a piercing look at the homelessness industry, nursing, and our country’s health care safety net.
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Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity — a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.
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Author: Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow is a stunning account of the rebirth of a caste-like system in the United States, one that has resulted in millions of African Americans locked behind bars and then relegated to a permanent second-class status—denied the very rights supposedly won in the Civil Rights Movement. Since its publication in 2010, the book has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year; been dubbed the “secular bible of a new social movement” by numerous commentators, including Cornel West; and has led to consciousness-raising efforts in universities, churches, community centers, re-entry centers, and prisons nationwide. The New Jim Crow tells a truth our nation has been reluctant to face.
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Author: Matthew Desmond
In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. All are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all have fallen behind. Based on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data, this masterful book transforms our understanding of extreme poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving a devastating, uniquely American problem. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Author: Rashi Shukla
Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider’s view of the world of methamphetamine based on the life stories of thirty-three adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing meth in rural Oklahoma. Using a respectful tone towards her subjects, Shukla illuminates their often decades-long love affair with the drug, the attractions of the lifestyle, the eventual unsustainability of it, and the challenges of exiting the life. These personal stories reveal how and why people with limited economic means and inadequate resources become entrapped in the drug epidemic, while challenging longstanding societal views about addiction, drugs, drug policy, and public health.
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Author: Johann Hari
What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari’s earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not be able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, unable to know what to do, he set out on a three-year, 30,000-mile journey to discover what really causes addiction–and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories–of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their war on drugs–with extraordinary results.
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Author: Nick Reding
The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation’s consciousness. Based on Reding’s four years of reporting in the agricultural town of Oelwein, Iowa, and tracing the connections to the global forces that set the stage for the meth epidemic, Methland offers a vital perspective on a contemporary tragedy. It is a portrait of a community under siege, of the lives that meth has devastated, and of the heroes who continue to fight the war.
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Author: Tracey Helton Mitchell
With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells her story of transformation from homeless heroin addict to stable mother of three—and the hard work and hard lessons that got her there. Rather than dwelling on the pain of addiction, Tracey focuses on her journey of recovery and rebuilding her life, while exposing the failings of the American rehab system and laying out a path for change. Starting with the first step in her recovery, Tracey re-learns how to interact with men, build new friendships, handle money, and rekindle her relationship with her mother, all while staying sober, sharp, and dedicated to her future.
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Author: David Sheff
Beautiful Boy highlights author David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic.
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Author: Nic Sheff
As methamphetamine addiction continues to take hold of adults in every walk of life, author Nic Sheff adds color and startling details to the conversation of drug addiction and the lifestyle that accompanies substance abuse. Holding back nothing, Sheff’s own story of addiction is sometimes difficult and troubling to read, but revealing and honest from start to finish.
Our next CASA Training is scheduled for September 2025. Volunteers participate in 30+ hours of pre-service training to prepare them to build relationships with a child who has come from hard places, to investigate and monitor the case and to learn how to effectively advocate for the needs and best interest of that child. Please […]
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May is National Foster Care Month and throughout this month we will be highlighting various aspects of Foster Care, the children who are experiencing out-of-home placement, and those caring for them. Every young person deserves a safe and stable home, a supportive community, and a chance to pursue their hopes and achieve their goals. There are many ways to support children experiencing foster care and the caregivers providing homes for them.
Offer practical help – a meal, childcare, help with errands or household chores, transportation needs
Emotional support – empathy, active listening, understanding and compassion, check in regularly and offer support
Donate – donate clothing, shoes, gift cards to department and grocery stores and/or restaurants, and as one foster parent suggested – brownies, brownies fix a world of woes!
May is National Foster Care Month and throughout this month we will be highlighting various aspects of Foster Care, the children who are experiencing out-of-home placement, and those caring for them. Every young person deserves a safe and stable home, a supportive community, and a chance to pursue their hopes and achieve their goals. There are many ways to support children experiencing foster care and the caregivers providing homes for them.
Offer practical help – a meal, childcare, help with errands or household chores, transportation needs
Emotional support – empathy, active listening, understanding and compassion, check in regularly and offer support
Donate – donate clothing, shoes, gift cards to department and grocery stores and/or restaurants, and as one foster parent suggested – brownies, brownies fix a world of woes!
Come out and join us at these Bike Rodeos hosted by the Gallatin County Sheriff`s Office. Our table will be giving away bike and helmet decor and free books!
Come out and join us at these Bike Rodeos hosted by the Gallatin County Sheriff`s Office. Our table will be giving away bike and helmet decor and free books!
CASA Supporters - WE APPRECIATE YOU! Thank you for showing up and GIVING BIG! We are eternally grateful for your generosity and are committed to using your dollars to provide the best advocacy possible for vulnerable children. THANK YOU!
CASA Supporters - WE APPRECIATE YOU! Thank you for showing up and GIVING BIG! We are eternally grateful for your generosity and are committed to using your dollars to provide the best advocacy possible for vulnerable children. THANK YOU!
Are you ready to GIVE BIG?! This is CASA`s 9th year participating in Give Big Gallatin Valley and it has become our main fundraising opportunity of the year. We are eternally grateful for all of the donations and support our amazing community continues to offer. Give Big GV 2025 kicks off at 6PM tonight. Thank you for considering CASA/GAL of Gallatin County when making your giving choices. https://www.givebiggv.org/organizations/casa-gal-of-gallatin-county
Are you ready to GIVE BIG?! This is CASA`s 9th year participating in Give Big Gallatin Valley and it has become our main fundraising opportunity of the year. We are eternally grateful for all of the donations and support our amazing community continues to offer. Give Big GV 2025 kicks off at 6PM tonight. Thank you for considering CASA/GAL of Gallatin County when making your giving choices. https://www.givebiggv.org/organizations/casa-gal-of-gallatin-county
Our generous and engaged Board of Directors has offered a matching donation during Give Big of $2,500. When you donate, your donation will be doubled - double the effectiveness, double the ability to change a child`s story, double the opportunities for children to have enrichment activities. THANK YOU to our amazing Board members for their generosity! #GiveBigGV #changeachildsstory™️
Our generous and engaged Board of Directors has offered a matching donation during Give Big of $2,500. When you donate, your donation will be doubled - double the effectiveness, double the ability to change a child`s story, double the opportunities for children to have enrichment activities. THANK YOU to our amazing Board members for their generosity! #GiveBigGV #changeachildsstory™️
What exactly does a CASA volunteer do, you ask? Spending approximately 10 hours a month in their role as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, volunteers:
~Represent a foster child`s best interest throughout the court process
~Serve as the eyes and ears of the judge
~Conduct interviews with everyone involved in the child`s life - parents, teachers, caregivers, medical and therapeutic professionals, and many others
~Attend court hearings, case related meetings, and educational meetings
~Complete written court reports for every hearing
~Maintain contact with the child at least monthly and others involved regularly
~Maintain case records
~Attend ongoing trainings
Who is a CASA volunteer?
~Over 21 years of age
~Able to maintain confidentiality
~Objective
~Willing to attend 30+ hours pre-service training
~Able to maintain cooperative relationships with many personalities
Our CASA volunteers give of their hearts, time, and talents to ensure that every child in need of best interest advocacy throughout the child welfare and court process has someone dedicated just to them.
If you`re interested in serving on our team, please complete the application at: https://mt-gallatin.evintosolutions.com/VolunteerApplication
What exactly does a CASA volunteer do, you ask? Spending approximately 10 hours a month in their role as a Court Appointed Special Advocate, volunteers:
~Represent a foster child`s best interest throughout the court process
~Serve as the eyes and ears of the judge
~Conduct interviews with everyone involved in the child`s life - parents, teachers, caregivers, medical and therapeutic professionals, and many others
~Attend court hearings, case related meetings, and educational meetings
~Complete written court reports for every hearing
~Maintain contact with the child at least monthly and others involved regularly
~Maintain case records
~Attend ongoing trainings
Who is a CASA volunteer?
~Over 21 years of age
~Able to maintain confidentiality
~Objective
~Willing to attend 30+ hours pre-service training
~Able to maintain cooperative relationships with many personalities
Our CASA volunteers give of their hearts, time, and talents to ensure that every child in need of best interest advocacy throughout the child welfare and court process has someone dedicated just to them.
If you`re interested in serving on our team, please complete the application at: https://mt-gallatin.evintosolutions.com/VolunteerApplication
🧩 Autism Awareness & Child Welfare 💙
Every child deserves to be seen, heard, and supported. During #AutismAwarenessMonth, let`s shine a light on the unique needs of children on the spectrum — especially when it comes to their safety, care, and well-being.
Children with autism may experience the world differently — and that includes how they communicate distress or express needs. In child welfare, this means we must listen more closely, advocate more fiercely, and act more compassionately.
Let’s break down stigma. Let’s build understanding. And let’s ensure every child — neurodivergent or not — has a safe, nurturing environment to grow and thrive.
#AutismAcceptance #ChildWelfare #Neurodiversity #EveryChildMatters #ProtectAndEmpower #ChangeAChildsStory
🧩 Autism Awareness & Child Welfare 💙
Every child deserves to be seen, heard, and supported. During #AutismAwarenessMonth, let`s shine a light on the unique needs of children on the spectrum — especially when it comes to their safety, care, and well-being.
Children with autism may experience the world differently — and that includes how they communicate distress or express needs. In child welfare, this means we must listen more closely, advocate more fiercely, and act more compassionately.
Let’s break down stigma. Let’s build understanding. And let’s ensure every child — neurodivergent or not — has a safe, nurturing environment to grow and thrive.
#AutismAcceptance #ChildWelfare #Neurodiversity #EveryChildMatters #ProtectAndEmpower #ChangeAChildsStory
Are you ready to GIVE BIG? In just one week our community will come together to GIVE BIG to deserving non-profit organizations. Come visit CASA at our donor booth on Friday, May 2nd from 10AM - 5PM at Maven`s Market! #GiveBigGV
Are you ready to GIVE BIG? In just one week our community will come together to GIVE BIG to deserving non-profit organizations. Come visit CASA at our donor booth on Friday, May 2nd from 10AM - 5PM at Maven`s Market! #GiveBigGV
🌍 Happy Earth Day! 🌱
Today, we celebrate the planet we all call home—but let’s not forget who we`re protecting it for. 💚
Every child deserves a healthy, safe, and sustainable future. From clean air to safe water, green spaces to stable communities—caring for the Earth is caring for our children.
Let’s raise our voices for both environmental protection and child welfare. Together, we can build a world where every child can grow, thrive, and dream—on a planet that can sustain them.
#EarthDay2025 #ForTheChildren #ProtectOurPlanet #ChildWelfare #ChangeAChildsStory #FutureGenerations
🌍 Happy Earth Day! 🌱
Today, we celebrate the planet we all call home—but let’s not forget who we`re protecting it for. 💚
Every child deserves a healthy, safe, and sustainable future. From clean air to safe water, green spaces to stable communities—caring for the Earth is caring for our children.
Let’s raise our voices for both environmental protection and child welfare. Together, we can build a world where every child can grow, thrive, and dream—on a planet that can sustain them.
#EarthDay2025 #ForTheChildren #ProtectOurPlanet #ChildWelfare #ChangeAChildsStory #FutureGenerations
It`s #AlcoholAwarenessMonth—a time to learn the risks of alcohol misuse & its impact on individuals & communities. Whether it’s recognizing signs of drinking too much, preventing underage drinking or knowing where to seek support, resources are available: samhsa.gov/alcohol
It`s #AlcoholAwarenessMonth—a time to learn the risks of alcohol misuse & its impact on individuals & communities. Whether it’s recognizing signs of drinking too much, preventing underage drinking or knowing where to seek support, resources are available: samhsa.gov/alcohol
Endless possibilities! 258 non-profits, coming together to raise crucial funds to support our missions. Each one has a role in helping our community continue to be the great place to live we all know and love. Many of these organizations are our partners in serving vulnerable children and families. Please consider supporting Bienvenidos, Family Outreach, Family Promise, Greater Gallatin United Way, Hopa Mountain, HRDC, ReadMontana, Reach, Inc., The Rock Youth Center, and Thrive. These as well as many others are causes worthy of your support! #GiveBigGV #ChangeAChildsStory #casagal
Endless possibilities! 258 non-profits, coming together to raise crucial funds to support our missions. Each one has a role in helping our community continue to be the great place to live we all know and love. Many of these organizations are our partners in serving vulnerable children and families. Please consider supporting Bienvenidos, Family Outreach, Family Promise, Greater Gallatin United Way, Hopa Mountain, HRDC, ReadMontana, Reach, Inc., The Rock Youth Center, and Thrive. These as well as many others are causes worthy of your support! #GiveBigGV #ChangeAChildsStory #casagal