Montana Project LAUNCH serves pregnant women, children from birth through age 8, and their families and caregivers in Gallatin and Park Counties in Montana. Gallatin County has the third largest population in the state, while the adjacent Park County has a population of 15,567 residents and is considered “frontier” because of its low population density. Montana Project LAUNCH is in the process of evaluating how mental health infrastructure development can best be accomplished in urban and frontier settings in the state. Montana’s strategy focuses on the coordination of family support services, including evidence-based home visiting, enhancement of parent skills training, support for early care and education providers using the Pyramid Model, integrating a behavioral health clinician into a pediatric office, and screening children using the Ages & Stages Questionnaire® (ASQ) and the Ages & Stages Questionnaire®: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2™). Montana Project LAUNCH plans to institute a community-based approach to parent education needs and enhance home visiting with social-emotional supports.
Cohort 6, Funding Period 2014–2019
http://dphhs.mt.gov/hcsd/Childcare/MontanaProjectLAUNCH
