INTERMOUNTAIN DEACONESS CHILDRENS SERVICES
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Mission Statement
Intermountain's mission is "Healing through Healthy Relationships." Its vision is "relational and emotional health through transformative, integrated care." Intermountain provides residential and community-based services to more than 1,300 children, youth, and families across Montana suffering from complex emotional and mental health issues, primarily as a result of abuse, neglect, crisis, and/or trauma. Intermountain provides intensive residential care to severely emotionally damaged children and maintains a host of integrated community services across Western Montana, including outpatient psychological and psychiatric services, in-home family support, school-based services, parent education classes, and more.
About This Cause
Intermountain is a 115-year-old multi-service organization that has steadily grown in the last 20 years to become one of the largest child welfare and public mental health agency in Montana. Only 20 years ago, Intermountain served upwards of 40 children annually – exclusively through residential treatment in Helena. Today, Intermountain annually serves more than 1,350 children and families through a diverse array of more than a dozen integrated, clinically sound, compassionate services for children and families struggling with emotional disturbance and mental health issues. It has grown from serving just the Helena-area to maintaining service sites in Helena, Kalispell, Bozeman, and Billings that, in turn, reach the surrounding towns around each service site. Intermountain’s expansion is largely due to a growing emphasis on early intervention, prevention, and protection efforts that more effectively meet the needs of children and families struggling from mental health issues and emotional disturbance by reaching those children and families in the communities they call home. By expanding from residential treatment into outpatient psychological and psychiatric services, in-home family support, group home care, and school and community treatment, Intermountain has been effective at intervening in a child’s life and environment before more intensive, expensive, and isolated treatment is necessary. Intermountain is a unique human service agency in that it has seamlessly blended its child welfare and public mental health services around a unique and successful relational treatment model with a common thread of providing stability, permanence, and healthy relationships to Montana’s children, youth and families. Intermountain is the only treatment provider in the northwestern United States to offer this unique relationship-based therapeutic model. Having utilized, refined, and expanded this treatment approach over the last 35 years, Intermountain offers unique expertise and experience in dealing with mental and emotional disturbance in Montana children and families. Its leadership team has conducted seminars on child brain development and the effectiveness of the relationship-based treatment model to different groups and organizations across the United States, and even Europe, and is consistently utilized to inform and implore Montana policy makers about the foundational physical, emotional, and mental health needs of children, youth, and families across the state.