Resources For Families
Family Resource Guides:
Montana:
MT Department of Public Health & Human Services
Early Childhood Services Bureau information on early childhood, child care scholarships, policy & quality initiatives
DPHHS Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarship
Make a Complaint about child care providers
Find Substantiated Complaints or Licensing Deficiencies on a specific child care
Healthy Montana Kids free/low cost health insurance for Montana children.
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies is an organization that works to improve the health and wellbeing of mothers and babies across Montana.
Parenting:
ParentingMontana.org provides easy-to-use parenting tools to support your child’s success from kindergarten through the teen years.
The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) organization has published a Family Routine Guide to assist parents and caregivers in developing a plan to support young children who are using challenging behavior.
Child Mind Institute covers managing behavioral challenges, mental health support, and navigating screen time or stress
Zero To Three provides expert guidance, activity kits, and developmental milestone tools specifically focused on prenatal care up to age 3
PBS Parent Resources Explore parent resources to help you raise kind, curious and resilient children.
National:
Child Care Aware information on finding quality child care and the national network of child care resource and referral centers.
The goals of the National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) are to assist states and programs in their implementation of sustainable systems for the implementation of the Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children (Pyramid Model) within early intervention and early education programs.
Special Needs:
Montana Empowerment Center: assists individuals with disabilities
Quality Life Concepts individualized services and supports to individuals with developmental needs and their families
Youth Dynamics provides families with access to treatment, support and opportunities to build a better life
Parent To Parent support a national network of Parent to Parent programs to ensure access to quality emotional support for families of individuals with disabilities and/or special health care needs
Financial:
Bridge to Benefits support programs and tax credits
MT Dept. of Revenue Income Tax Filing Assistance
Tax Credits Tax Topics: Child & Dependent Care Credit
Deducting Summer Camps and Daycare with the Child and Dependent Care Credit
Drugs:
Rehab Facilities and Resources in Montana
Talking to Kids about Drugs & Alcohol
Parent and Caregiver Resources on Drugs and Alcohol
Health:
Staying Healthy: The Science behind Germs
Safety:
Child Safety from tots to teens
Child Development:
Benchmark Human Services Early intervention services
Milestones in Action free library of photos and videos of developmental milestones
