Resources
Hotlines and Helplines
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
A 24-hour toll-free suicide prevention service available to anyone in suicidal crisis. Your call will be routed to the nearest possible crisis center in your area. - Montana 988
Montana's suicide prevention and mental health crisis lifeline - Montana Warm Line
A non-crisis phone line staffed by primary consumers - Medicaid Expansion Assistance
- Medicaid Transportation Hotline
Assists Medicaid recipients with authorization for and reimbursement for transportation costs - Montana Public Assistance Helpline
- Montana Citizens' Advocate
Assists Montanans in their interactions with state executive branch agencies and helps navigate the often complex statutory and regulatory environment of state government - Aging Hotline
1-800-332-2272 (Citizen’s Advocate)
Crisis Phone Contacts
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
988
Your call will be routed to the crisis center nearest to you.
Eastern Montana Mental Health Center
- Administrative Offices
406-234-0234 - Toll Free Crisis Phone Contact
- Baker, Broadus, Ekalaka, Jordan, Miles City, Terry
800-597-6606 - Glasgow, Malta, Plentywood, Scobey, Wolf Point
800-597-6608 - Circle, Glendive, Wibaux
877-392-9767 - Fairview, Sidney
877-392-9768 - Colstrip, Forsyth, Hysham
877-392-9771
- Baker, Broadus, Ekalaka, Jordan, Miles City, Terry
- Crisis Phone Contact
- Fairview, Sidney
406-488-2100 (after hours)
- Fairview, Sidney
South Central Montana Mental Health Center
- Administrative Offices
406-252-5658 - Toll Free Crisis Phone Contact
- Big Timber, Billings, Columbus, Hardin, Harlowton, Lewistown, Red Lodge, Roundup, Ryegate, Stanford, Winnett
800-266-7198
- Big Timber, Billings, Columbus, Hardin, Harlowton, Lewistown, Red Lodge, Roundup, Ryegate, Stanford, Winnett
- Community Crisis Center, Billings
406-259-8800
Many Rivers Whole River Health
- Administrative Offices
406-761-2100 - Toll Free Crisis Phone Contact
888-718-2100 - Crisis Phone Contact
- Boulder, Helena, Lincoln, Townsend, White Sulphur Springs, Whitehall
406-443-7151 - Great Falls
406-761-2100 - Chinook
406-357-3364 - Choteau
406-466-5681 - Conrad
406-278-3205 - Cut Bank
406-873-5538 - Havre
406-265-9639
- Boulder, Helena, Lincoln, Townsend, White Sulphur Springs, Whitehall
Western Montana Mental Health Center
- Administrative Offices
406-532-8400 - Toll Free Crisis Contact
- Missoula/Hamilton
800-273-8255
- Missoula/Hamilton
Advocacy Organizations
- Disability Rights Montana (Formerly MAP - Montana Advocacy Program)
- Montana Fair Housing
A non-profit organization that provides information and support, and investigates allegations of discrimination in housing - Montana Mental Health Association (Mental Health America)
- NAMI-MT (National Alliance on Mental Illness-Montana)
- Montana Lifespan Respite
- People’s Law Center
- Tenant-Landlord Hotline (Montana Public Interest Research Group - MontPIRG)
Mental Health Centers
Administrative Offices - Contact these offices to ask about services in your community
Anaconda
- A.W.A.R.E
406-563-8117
Billings
- Community Crisis Center
406-259-8800 - Montana Community Services
406-656-5976 - New Day, Inc.
406-256-3224 - Rimrock Foundation - MHC
406-248-3175 - South Central Regional Mental Health Center
406-252-5658 - Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch
406-655-2000 - Youth Dynamics, Inc.
406-245-6539
Butte
Great Falls
- Center for Mental Health
406-761-2100 (Great Falls)
Helena
- Center for Mental Health
406-443-7151 (Helena) - Intermountain Mental Health Center
406-422-7920
Lakeside
- Northwest Behavioral Health
406-844-2890
Miles City
- Eastern Montana Community Mental Health Center
406-234-0234
Missoula
- 3 Rivers Mental Health Solutions
406-830-3294 - Full Circle Counseling Solutions
406-532-1615 - Winds of Change
406-721-2038 - Western Montana Mental Health Center
406-532-9700
Stevensville
- Bitterroot Valley Education Cooperative
406-777-5509
Warm Springs
- Montana State Hospital
406-693-7000
State of Montana Resources
- Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Division
- Children’s Mental Health Bureau
- Healthy Montana Kids (HMK)
(formerly Children’s Health Insurance Plan - CHIP) - Human Rights Bureau – Montana Department of Labor
Receives and investigates complaints of illegal discrimination - Insurance Commissioner - Montana State Auditor’s Office
Assists with inquiries regarding insurance issues - LAWS
Website for Montana Code Annotated - State Laws - Long Term Care Ombudsman
Assists with nursing homes and assisted living issue - Mental Disabilities Board of Visitors
Independent oversight of mental health facilities - Big Sky Rx Program (BSRx)
Pharmaceutical Assistance - helps Medicare clients pay for Medicare approved prescription drug insurance premiums - SHIP - State Health Insurance Program
Assistance for Medicare beneficiaries - Montana 2-1-1
Montana 2-1-1 connects you with community resources, services, and assistance for Montanans - Montana 988
Montana's suicide prevention and mental health crisis lifeline - NAMI Montana
Mental health advocacy for Montanans and their families with mental illness - Montana County Mental Health Resource Guides
National Resources
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
- MEDLINEplus - Drug Information (National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health)
- Drug Patient Assistance Programs & Drug Information
- Mental Health America (formerly Mental Health Association)
- NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness
- National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
- Office of the Medicare Ombudsman
- President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health – Final Report (2003)
- SAMHSA -- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- The Village - Long Beach California
- Bi-Polar Support in College
