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2024 - 2025 Connect! Grants

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Connect! Grant Awarded to:

Rural Resilience

Rural Resilience currently provides mental and behavioral health services and support to over fifty students and their families across five school communities in rural Montana, including Gardiner Public Schools. Services are provided by a full-time behavior analyst, counselor, and LCPC interns from MSU, as well as collaborative community networks that otherwise would not be accessible due to geographical, socioeconomic, and historically rooted barriers. Working alongside special education school specialists in the Park County Special Education Cooperative allows our infrastructure to capitalize on servicing students through evidence-based curricula and establish systems to focus on targeted skill sets to foster healthier and happier youth.

Connect! Grants are offered three times per school calendar year. Deadlines are at the end of the week of each of the first 3 school quarters.
(November 1, 2024, January 26, 2025, and April 6, 2025)
 

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Impact

We are seeking applications that make a difference and serve a wide-range of students.

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Need

We are seeking applications that fulfill a crucial need in our community.

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Mission

Our mission is to work with the community to build sustainable support and enhance innovative educational opportunities for students, teachers and community members in partnership with Gardiner Public Schools.

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Apply

To apply: complete application via the Application Link below. All applications must be entered in link below. The Budget Template is required to be uploaded into the application.

2024 - 2025 Connect! Grants

Awards and Impacts

Mental Health Support

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Connect! Grants making a difference!

Grant Recipient: Rural Resilience

Grant Awarded: Staff

Total Served: 119

Grant Amount Awarded: $10,000

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This grant has helped maintain services from a behavior analyst that supports students, teachers, and families with behavioral and mental health strategies, support, resources, and skillsets that result in healthier and happier outcomes for students to find success in and out of the classroom.  

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"Rural Resilience invests in our greatest community asset, our youth. They ensure that services that are needed for students are provided. They work with over 100 students and educators across Park County. Students who are struggling get what they need. We as classroom teachers can refer families for services and knowing that receiving them does not create a financial burden for these families is great peace of mind. The resources and expertise provided by Rural Resilience are “game changers” in the classroom and as I’ve learned to use the tools and resources they provide me, I become a more confident and capable teacher for all the children in my classroom. I am grateful for the experience of every child that has been given the chance to work with the Rural Resilience team because the support and success they receive, and gain is life changing."

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