Elisa Fiaschetti
406.441.4953
elisa@mtcf.org

The Montana Mental Health Access Fund provides funding to mental health service providers in Montana to support innovative ideas for increasing access and improving mental health and well-being for residents, with special emphasis on rural and tribal communities, and other remote, hard-to-reach areas and populations.

Funded projects must:

• Improve or increase access to mental health services, including leveraging technology such as telehealth and other resources to meet the need in their community
• Reduce barriers to accessing mental health services including geographic, demographic, and economic barriers
• Provide mental health services associated with the grant at no cost to the patient
• Be long-term and sustainable solutions to increasing access to mental health
• Fill a need that other available resources in the community cannot meet
• Serve a region or population of high need, as measured by the existence of health disparities, poor access to mental health services, economic hardship, and geographic remoteness
• Be focused on assisting vulnerable populations within the community, such as children, older adults, communities of color, low-income households, the uninsured and people with disabilities

Eligible applicants are Montana-based mental health service providers, including:

• Health clinics
• Mental health centers
• Hospitals
• Social service agencies
• Nonprofits
• Schools
• Individuals licensed to provide mental health services

The minimum award is $1,000. There is no limit on the amount that can be requested.

Links to application instructions and the online application portal are available on the program website.

There are 2 application cycles per year with the following deadlines:

• April 30
• October 31