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Missoula Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention, and Parenting Services  (MAPPPS): Member Agencies

  •  Membership Application now available online!

  • Mountain Home Montana: To provide a safe, loving home where teen mothers can discover their strengths and their children can experience the joys of childhood.

  • Futures (WORD): Futures uses a youth development approach to give teen parents leadership and advocacy skills that empower them to stay in education and shape their own lives, families and communities in ways that support self-sufficiency, independence and choice.

  • Friends To Youth: F.T.Y. provides in home and outpatient counseling services to youth and their families. We use a strength based interpersonal approach to help youth confront barriers and build healthy, safe, secure relationships within their families and communities.

  • Planned Parenthood: Planned Parenthood of Montana is the largest provider of family planning services in Montana with clinics in Billings, Great Falls, Helena, Missoula, and Kalispell as well as partnerships with health care providers in ten rural counties. Planned Parenthood of Montana provides reproductive health care including annual exams, cancer screening, and birth control supplies at a cost based on one’s income and household size. Planned Parenthood services affect human health and welfare by providing crucial medical care to those who might otherwise go without. Additionally, our comprehensive sex education programs are designed to help prevent teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS.

  • Missoula City-County Health Department: The health department uses a strength based model to serve high risk pregnant women and high risk children. Our emphasis is prevention involving case management . This is accomplished with assessments and education using a evidence based model. We serve children 0-19 and families throughout Missoula county. We collaborate with other agencies with the goal of improved outcomes of health of high risk families. We also have population based services such as homelessness, abuse and neglect, special needs children, infectious disease, and school wellness.

  • Blue Mountain Clinic: Blue Mountain Clinic sees patients for primary medical services, mental health counseling, sexual and reproductive care, and Chinese medicine. They have also provided access to first trimester abortion care with an emphasis on options counseling and birth control selection for more than 30 years. 

  • Human Resource Council: Missoula's Human Resource Council provides services in the areas of housing, food, energy assistance and conservation, and employment training. They also do advocacy and information/referral work.

  • YWCA, GUTS!: Girls Using Their Strengths (GUTS!) is a unique, community-based leadership and empowerment program designed by and for young women, ages 9 to 18. Part of YWCA Missoula's Leadership Institute for Women & Girls, GUTS! encourages young women to explore their own personal values and discover their strengths through wilderness adventures in the summer, continuing during the school year with after-school groups and community service projects.  

  • Big Sky Valley Clinical Sexology: Big Sky Valley Clinical Sexology is a local business with a clinical sexologist trained at the doctoral level to help people help themselves. Working beside the clients, Big Sky Valley Clinical Sexology constructs designs to pass barriers that inhibit the achievement of greater sexual health and wellbeing. Many services are offered and all are able to be modified in order to fit a client's specific needs.  

  • University of Montana-Sociology

 

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