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Community Resources and Family Support Groups
 
Bliss, Inc.
712 Lost Quartz Road
Big Arm, MT 59910
Phone: 406-849-5016  Fax: 406-849-6010  
Contact: Kappie Bliss, M.A., Director
kappie@mcbliss.com
This health care professional does outreach and training on FAS/FAE at meetings of physicians, social workers, and teachers, using her own curriculum, What Every Citizen Needs to Know About Fetal Alcohol Syndrome .

FAS/FAE Support and Education Group
3800 S Third Street West
Missoula, MT 59804
Contact: Pat Hankel, Ruby Pfan, Coordinators
busybee@3800hotmail.com


March of Dimes
643 Grand Avenue
Suite B
Billings, MT 59101
Phone: 406 252-7480   Toll Free: 1-800-597-7116
htorrence@marchfdimes.org
Montana Chapter-FAS prevention materials available; training modules for health professionals, fact sheet, brochures on alcohol and pregnancy, and The Fabulous F.A. S. Quiz Show, a kit that provides teachers to help students understand the effect of alcohol on an unborn baby.

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services - Vocational Rehabilitation
111 North Sanders, Room 307
Helena, MT 59620
Phone: 406 444-2590   Toll Free: 1-877-296-1197
Contact: Peggy Williams
Assists Montana residents who are disabled in finding jobs and living independently. Types of disabilities that may benefit include orthopedic, mental, visual, hearing or brain injury. Provide information, guidance, and job placement and referral. Specialists work in ten field offices across the state.

Parents Lets Unite for Kids (PLUK)
516 N 32nd St
Billings, MT 59191-6003
Phone: 406-255-0540  Fax: 406-255-0523   
plukinfo@pluk.org
www.pluk.org
Advocacy group for parents. Provides consultation to help parents access services in schools and communities.

Diagnosis of FAS
 
Shodair Hospital Department of Medical Genetics
2755 Colonial Drive
P O Box 5539
Helena, MT 59604
Phone: 406-444-7500  Fax: 406-444-1022  
Contact: James Reynolds, M.D., John Johnson, M.D.
www.jdmc.org/fase.htm
The physicians in this department hold FAS clinics around Montana.

Other
 
CD ROM Clinical Guide for Obstetric and Pediatric Providers
MT
Phone: 406-444-6928  
Contact: Marjean Magraw, FAS Coordinator
mmagraw@state.mt.us
Available on loan

Florence Crittenton Home and Services
901 No. Harris
Helena, MT
Phone: 406 442-6950  
mothers@initco.net
A licensed maternity home. Prenatal program accepts adolescent girls at any stage of pregnancy. In a drug and alcohol free environment, clients receive education about prenatal care and nutrition. Also available are counseling in adoption and life choices as well as group and individual therapy and parenting education. The home receives support services from mental health therapists in the community, an adolescent outpatient chemical dependency program, the Helena Indian Alliance and other local human service organizations.

Four State FAS Consortium - Web Site
MT
http://www.usd.edu/fourstatefasconsortium/
FAS Day: www.come-over.to/FASDAY/manual.htm. NOFAS: www.nofas.org

Montana Advocacy Program
400 N Park,2nd floor
P O Box 1681
Helena, MT 59624
Phone: 406-449-2344  Fax: 406-449-2418  Toll Free: 800-245-4743
advocate@montana.net
Protection and advocacy agency for persons with developmental disabilities.

Students Like Me" and "Worth the Trip" - Rimrock Foundation Library.
MT
Toll Free: 1-800-227-3953
http://www.rimrock.org
Loaner FAS videos for parents and teachers. Parents Lets Unite for Kids (PLUCK) 1-800-222-7585 www.pluck.org

The Organization of Teratology Information Services (OTIS)
MT
Phone: 1-866-626-6847  
www.otispregnancy.org
Teratology information for health professionals

Prevention Programs, including Treatment for Women
 
Blackfeet Reservation Headstart
PO Box 528
Browning, MT 59417
Phone: 406-338-7030  Fax: 406 338-7370  
Contact: Margaret Ann Yellow Kidney, RN
Provides home visiting services for pregnant women at risk. Participating site in piloting a prevention intervention with women at risk as part of the MT FAS project. Clinical Coordinator facilitates diagnostic clinics and provides case management to families as part of the FAS project. Also received funding through NIAAA to survey adult alcohol use.

Carol A. Graham Home
Missoula, MT
Phone: 406-549-8309  
Contact: Cindy Buesing, Program Supervisor or Emily Wachholz, Adult Case Manager
cbuesing@wmmhc.org
Assists women in recovery and simultaneously provides critically needed support to the family. Geared to economically disadvantaged women. Provides women with children the ability to receive long-term residential chemical dependency treatment.

Cascade City-County Health Department
115 4th Street South
Great Falls, MT 59401
Phone: 406-454-6950   Fax: 406 454-6959  
Contact: Carol Keaster, RN
Provides home visiting services for pregnant women at risk. Participating site in piloting a prevention intervention with women at risk as part of the MT FAS project.

Crow Reservation - FAS Coordination and Prevention
PO Box 9
Crow Agency, MT 59022
Phone: 406-638-3478  
Contact: Gerry Evans, R.N., IHS Public Health Nurse


Department of Public Health and Human Services - Addictive and Mental Disorders Division|
555 Fuller Avenue
PO Box 20290
Helena, MT 59620
Phone: 406 444-9330  
Contact: Chris Latta, Ph.D., Womens Treatment Coordinator
clatta@state.mt.us
Chemical Dependency Bureau

Department of Public Health and Human Services - Chemistry Department Bureau
555 Fuller Ave 1
Helena, MT 59620
Phone: 406-444-1290  
www.state.mt.us/


Flathead County Health Department - Community Health Division
1035 1st Ave. W.
Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone: 406-751-8110  Fax: 406-751-8111  
www.flatheadhealth.org


Fort Belknap Reservation FAS Coordination
P O Box 619
Harlem, MT 59526
Phone: 406-353-2205x340  
Contact: Cheryl (Jill) Plumage, Prevention Coordinator


Gateway Recovery Home
2211 5th Ave
Great Falls, MT 59401
Phone: 406-452-6655  Fax: 406 452-6561   
www.gatewayrecovery.org
Established to provide women suffering from alcohol or drug abuse the opportunity to live in a structured, supportive, chemically free environment while seeking necessary treatment services. Accepts women with children under 12 years.

Healthy Beginnings, Flathead Reservation
P O Box 199
St. Ignatius, MT 59864
Phone: 406-745-3525  
Contact: Irene Lake, Site Manager
Healthy Beginnings is part of a federally-funded collaborative research project between the Salish Kootenai Confederated Tribes and the University of New Mexico Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions to look at the effectiveness of a comprehensive, community-based effort to prevent drinking during pregnancy and the resulting birth defects including Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). The Healthy Beginnings staff members are Irene Lake, Prevention Site Manager, and Rose Maestas, Prevention Case Manager. Project Services include community education about FAS prevention, information and education for women of childbearing age, and case management of women at high risk for drinking during pregnancy to help them stay substance free by accessing local services.

Missoula Department of Public Health and Human Services
301 W Alder Street
Missoula, MT 59804
Phone: 406-523-4745  
Contact: Carol Regel, R.N.


Montana Association of Alcohol Related Birth Defects
1500 North University Street
Billings, MT 59101
Phone: 406-657-2312  Fax: 406-657-2313   Toll Free: 888-866-3822
www.msubillings.edu


Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services FAS Project
1400 Broadway
Cogswell C-314
Helena, MT 59620
Phone: 406 444-6928  Fax: 406-444-2606  
Contact: Marjean Magraw, FAS Coordinator, Deborah Henderson, Section Supervisor
http://www.usd.edu/fourstatefasconsortium/
State program that is funded by federal dollars through a cooperative agreement with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Part of a Four State FAS Consortium which includes, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota. Received funding to pilot an FAS prevention intervention in four areas of the state, collect information on children diagnosed with FAS/E and is also surveying behavior risk factors among pregnant women in Montana. Supports a Statewide FAS Advisory Council that was appointed by the Governor. Funded through September 2003.

Northern Cheyenne Reservation - FAS Coordination and Prevention
P O Box 70
Lame Deer, MT 59043
Phone: 406-638-3478  
Contact: Molly Malone, R.N.


Rimrock Foundation - Michels House
1231 N 29th Street
Billings, MT 59101
Phone: 406 248-3175   Toll Free: 1-800-227-3953
www.rimrock.org
A special treatment project of the Rimrock Foundation for drug-addicted-women with dependent children under the age of 12 years. Family-friendly residential setting in which moms can receive intensive treatment while continuing to care for and provide parenting to their children.

Spotted Bull Treatment Center
P.O. Box 1027
603 1/2 Court Avenue
Poplar, MT 59255
Phone: 406-768-3852  Fax: 406-768-5202  
Contact: Abraham Chopper, Program Director; Roberta Garfield
sbtc@hemotel.net
The Center works with pregnant women at risk for alcohol/drugs. Provides outpatient treatment for chemical dependency and after-care program. Also provides prevention education in their community.

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