Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families

Montana

The Po'Ka Project (Blackfeet Children System of Care)

The Po'Ka Project is developing a reservation-wide children's mental health system.  The system's objectives are to implement the system of care philosophy at the local tribal level; and to identify, plan for, and facilitate a process for enabling children with serious emotional disturbance and their families to access services that meet their needs.

Andy Hunt, MSW, LICSW
Commander, US Public Health Service
Public Health Advisor
Child Adolescent and Family Branch
Center for Mental Health Services
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1054
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1926
Fax: 240-276-1990
 

Dorothy Still Smoking
Principal Investigator
Blackfeet Circles of Care
P.O. Box 870
Browning, MT 
Phone: 406-338-5031
Fax: 406-338-5660

Kids Integrated Delivery System for Montana (KIDS FM)

This project intends to transition the statewide children’s mental health system by working with the government as well as the Crow Nation to enhance access to an integrated, wraparound system of services designed to meet the needs of children and families.

Jill Erickson
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1926
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: jill.erickson@samhsa.hhs.gov 

Pete W. Surdock, Jr.
Principal Investigator
Bureau Chief
Children’s Mental Health Services Bureau
Department of Public Health and Human Services
State of Montana
P.O. Box 202951 
Helena, Montana 59620-2951
Phone: 406-444-1290