Child Development Center
www.childdevcenter.org
Provides home and center based services for children, from ages 0-21 who are developmentally delayed or disabled, and their families. Provides evaluation, training and support.
1725 Mt. Hwy. 35
Kalispell
Phone: 755-2425
Fax 755-2426
Missoula: (800) 914-4774
Eagle Transit
http://flathead.mt.gov/eagle/
Flathead County Public Transportation. The website has current schedules, etc.
Phone: (406) 758-5728
Family Concepts
Family Concepts is a multi-county program operated by the Sunburst Community Service Foundation. It offers a range of services for families in crisis including supervised visitation, parenting classes, family group decision making conferences and drug testing. For a full range of services available and more detailed information about their program visit their website at:http://www.sunburstfoundation.org/family%20concepts.html
Family Planning Clinic
http://flathead.mt.gov/reproductivehealth/
Phone: 751-8150
Flathead City/County Health Department
Community Health Nurses provide breast feeding counseling, maternal child health information, limited pre-natal services, immunization clinics and home visits for families.
http://flathead.mt.gov/health/
1035 1st Avenue West
Phone: 751-8100
Fax: 751-8102
Flathead County Library
www.flatheadcountylibrary.org
Books on child development and child management, children’s books and records, story hours, exhibits. Toy lending library. Meeting room available.
247 1st Avenue East
Kalispell
Phone: 758-5820
COLUMBIA FALLS BRANCH - 892-5919
WHITEFISH BRANCH - 862-6657
BIGFORK BRANCH - 837-6976
MARION BRANCH - 854-2333
Flathead Food Bank
Provides short-term emergency food assistance to people in need. Distribution centers are located in Kalispell, Evergreen, Marion, Hungry Horse and Bigfork.
1056th Avenue West
Kalispell
Phone: 752-3663
Columbia Falls Food Pantry
Monday 5pm – 6:30 pm, Tuesday 9:30 am - noon
82 Railway St.
Columbia Falls
Phone: 892-0241
Flathead Special Education Cooperative
Provides speech, language, psychological, occupational, physical therapy and preschool services to children 3-15 years old. Conducts Child Find outreach each fall and spring to identify children with special learning needs.
1001 S. Main St.
Kalispell
Phone: 257-1857
Head Start
www.headstartmt.org
Head Start is a pre-school program available at no cost to income eligible families.
79 7th Ave. EN, Kalispell
Phone: 752-7011
Fax: 755-1916
Health Clinic
Phone: 751-8113
Heartland Caregivers
www.heartlandcaregivers.com
Domestic placement and employment agency
Phone: (800) 866-6266
HELP NET- FIRST CALL FOR HELP
Confidential, anonymous, free information and referral service for Northwest Montana. Referrals to all social services providers/counselors when you don’t know where to turn for help. Also try http://montana211.org/
PO Box 8181 Kalispell
Phone: 752-8181
Toll Free: (800) 332-8425
Hope Pregnancy Center
www.hopepregnancycenter.org
940 1st Ave. East
Kalispell
Phone: 257-6006
Literacy Volunteers
www.famlit.org
Work with adults in the Flathead County on basic literacy skills of reading, writing and English as a second language. Offers U.S. citizenship study. Tutoring services available in the juvenile and adult detention centers. Services are free and confidential.
35 4th Street West
Kalispell
Phone: 257-7323
Lutheran Social Services of Montana
www.lssmt.org
Statewide social service agency providing general counseling, adoption counseling, unplanned pregnancy counseling, adoption education & consultation.
17 2nd Street East, Suite 207
Kalispell
Phone: 752-8847
Montana Peaks, Inc.
A community-based, non-profit agency that provides education and job training programs for families and youth through partnerships with schools, businesses and human service agencies. Consulting and grant writing services for vocational and school-to-work programs. Non-traditional training programs are offered to women.
http://www.mountainpeaksinc.com/
123 6th Street West
PO Box 2355
Columbia Falls
Phone: 892-5767
Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS)
Support group for mothers with children. Located at Trinity Lutheran Church, Kalispell. Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday from 9:15-11:15 am.
Phone: 257-5683
Mothers of Twins
Support group for mothers of twins. Meets 2nd Monday of the month at 7:30pm, Finnegan’s Restaurant, 666 East Idaho, Kalispell. Susie Hartman 752-3547
Daytime: 756-6485
Evenings: 752-8776
Neighbors in Need
www.ucc.org/nin/
Fund of last resort that is managed by church donations for emergencies such as temporary shelter, rental assistance, utilities, food, gasoline, etc. for limited income persons.
PO Box 2772, Kalispell
Phone: 752-8181
Toll Free: (800) 332-8425
Northwest Montana Human Resources
www.nmhr-dist10.org
A community based not-for profit agency providing opportunities and services to needy individuals to obtain self-sufficiency by networking available resources in the community and offering direct services.
214 Main Street
P.O. Box 8300
Kalispell, MT 59904
Phone: 752-6565
Nurturing Center
The Nurturing Center offers a wide range of support services for the family and is open to the general population. They have excellent parent education classes, offer day care referral and childcare assistance for low income families, childcare, divorce education, parent, dad and grandparent support groups, and an excellent resource library. They also are home to the Gemini program which is a mentoring program for 9th grade girls designed to foster resiliency.
For information on these and other programs (including Safe Havens – their supervised visitation program) please check out their website: www.nurturingcenter.org
Note to CASA: They also have an online childcare forum that might prove a useful tool when assisting families deal effectively with child related issues.
Office of Public Assistance
www.dphhs.mt.gov
Applications for economic assistance, Food Stamps, Medicaid.
751-5900
121 Financial Dr., Suite A
Kalispell
PO Box 1096
Parents Lets Unite for Kids - PLUK
www.pluk.org
Stephanie Leuhr -Parent support for children with special needs.
Phone: 270-1086
Ray of Hope Homeless Shelter
A hand up, not a hand out.
46 – 5th Ave. W.
Kalispell
Phone: 755-4673
Salvation Army
www.salvationarmyusa.org
Provides emergency welfare assistance in the form of food, temporary shelter and clothing.
110 Bountiful Drive
Kalispell
Phone: 257-4357
Thrift Store
1500 South Hwy 93
Kalispell
Samaritan House
Provides shelter and basic needs for homeless people, while supporting their efforts to find employment and housing. Corner of 9th Avenue West and 2nd Street West
P.O. Box 592
Kalispell
Phone: 257-5801
Seventh Day Adventist Community Service Center
Open Tuesdays from 10:00am-3:00pm. Provides clothing, and a limited supply of furniture in emergency crisis situations. Please call to find out what furniture is needed or available.
494 9th Avenue EN
Kalispell
Phone: 257-6008
United Way
www.unitedwaycares.org
P.O. Box 7217
Kalispell, Mt 59901
Phone: 752-7266
Violence Free Crisis Line
Peer counseling, crisis intervention and advocacy for victims of battering, incest, domestic violence, child sexual abuse and rape. Offers Abused Women’s Support Group, Rape Survivors Group, Adults Molested as Children Group, and Abigail Frederick Shelter for victims. Anonymous and confidential services are available 24 hours a day.
Kalispell Crisis Office
1203 Hwy 2 W. #28,
P.O. Box 1401
HOTLINE - 752-7273
Phone: 752-4735
Women, Infants, & Children (WIC)
Phone: 751-8170
http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic
