| Location
(County) |
Meeting
Schedule |
Contact
Person(s) |
| Cascade Co. Great Falls |
1st Tuesday of each month @ 1 pm in the MH Center. |
Joan-Nell
MacFadden- Co-Chair 2620 4th Ave S Great Falls, MT 59405 Phone: 452-4185 jnmacfadden@aol.com Joe Moll - Co-Chair 416 8th Ave S. # 2 Great Falls, MT 59406 Phone: 453-4582 joemoll@sofast.net |
| Gallatin Co. Bozeman |
2nd Monday of each month @ noon in the Courthouse on Main. |
John
Vincent-Chair 311 West Main St. Rm 306 Bozeman, MT 59715-4576 Phone: (406) 582-3000 commission@co.gallatin.mt.us Dorothy Bradley- Co-Chair 615 16th Ave Bozeman, MT 59715 Phone: 582-2091 dobradley@mt.gov |
| Lewis & Clark Co. Helena |
4thThursday of each month @ 7 pm in the Golden Triangle building. |
Dan
Anderson- Chair 2475 Stuart Helena, MT 59601 Phone: 449-6003 dfanderson@bresnan.net |
| Park Co. Livingston |
4th Thursday of each month @ 3:30. In the City-County Building. |
Dick
Murphy-Commissioner Kris Denton- Contact County Commissioners office 414 East Callender Livingston, MT 59047 Phone: 222-4106 commissioners@parkcounty.org |
| Teton & Pondera Counties Choteau |
In the Teton
Medical Center, Choteau. Irregular meeting dates |
Joe Dellwo County Commissioner Phone: 466-2151 (work) Fax: 466-2138 jdellwo@3rivers.net Lora Wier- Chair Public Health Nurse 905 4th Street NW Choteau, MT 59422 Phone: 466-2562 health@3rivers.net Kathleen Nelson, secretary Phone: 406-466-3782 knelson@3rivers.net |
Counties in CSAA Area without LACs: Blaine County -- Chinook Broadwater County -- Townsend Chouteau County -- Fort Benton Glacier County -- Cut Bank Hill County -- Havre Jefferson County -- Boulder Liberty County -- Chester Meagher County -- White Sulphur Springs Toole County -- Shelby |
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by Charles Baker --adopted from New Beginnings Activities Center (Hamilton) Jan. 2006 Newsletter The Montana legislature has passed laws creating various boards that work with Addiction and Mental Disorders Division (AMDD). These boards are: Local Advisory Councils (or Committees) (LACs), regional Service Area Authorities (SAAs), and the Mental Health Oversight Advisory Council (MHOAC). The majority of the members of MHOAC and the majority of the board of directors of the SAAs must be consumers or family members. “The LACs must seek active participation of primary and secondary consumers, family members, and advocates and must include ‘significant representation’ of these groups.” (From MHOAC’s Policy on Local Advisory Councils.) People who are concerned about the mental health needs and services in each county are encouraged to participate in or to form LACs to determine needs and suggest solutions to their regional SAA, MHOAC and AMDD. “LACs primary focus will be to advise the (regional) SAA on program issues affecting the community.” (From MHOAC’s Policy on Local Advisory Councils.) |