EBS STAFF
The Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition, the multi-agency collaborative that began five years ago, celebrated $10.9 million raised and the implementation of seven new behavioral health services in the area.
Notable milestones in the last year include: the opening of Bozeman Health’s first 14-bed inpatient psychiatric unit, cited as one of the coalition’s proudest achievements, having assisted 119 patients receiving acute psychiatric care; Rimrock’s Bozeman office offering addiction treatment services like withdrawal management and intensive outpatient care and the establishment of Gallatin County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment program. Lastly, HRDC opened its Homeward Point shelter in Bozeman.
Lighthouse Ranch sits along Dry Creek Road in Belgrade on 30 acres of quiet property. PHOTO COURTESY OF LIGHTHOUSE RANCH
“The Montana Healthcare Foundation believed from the beginning that Gallatin County had the community will and the right partners to build something lasting,” said Scott Malloy, program director at Montana Healthcare Foundation in a March 2026 press release “What GBHC has achieved is a testament to what happens when organizations put collective community goals ahead of individual organizational territories and show up to work together year after year.”
Looking forward, GBHC is pursuing crisis receiving and stabilization services, expanded resources for adults with serious mental illness and also making progress on the Lighthouse Ranch, a youth behavioral health campus.
“The coalition is also engaged in Montana’s HB872 process, which will invest $300 million in the state’s behavioral health system, advocating for mobile crisis sustainability, youth crisis services, and adult crisis infrastructure in Gallatin County,” the release continued. Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services will also roll out its Rural Health Transformation Program, which the federal government has allocated $233 million to improve rural and statewide healthcare.