The Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition announced on March 13 that it secured $10.9 million in collaborative funding and launched seven new behavioral health services across Gallatin County and Southwest Montana during the past year, according to its newly released 2025 Impact Report.
The coalition’s report highlights significant progress in expanding access to behavioral health care through partnerships among more than 28 organizations. The collaborative approach is credited with deepening trust and coordination among providers, which supporters say has led to improved outcomes for the community.
Among the notable achievements cited in the report are the September opening of Bozeman Health’s 14-bed adult psychiatric inpatient unit, which provided acute psychiatric care for 119 patients locally last year. Other milestones include Rimrock’s new Bozeman office offering addiction treatment services, the launch of Gallatin County’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment program supported by $1.5 million from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and HRDC’s Homeward Point shelter, which housed over 100 people on its second night of operation.
Scott Malloy of the Montana Healthcare Foundation said, “The Montana Healthcare Foundation believed from the beginning that Gallatin County had the community will and the right partners to build something lasting. 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.”
Rimrock Foundation CEO Jeff Keller also praised the coalition’s collaborative spirit: “I make that drive every month because this coalition is the real thing. The level of trust, the quality of conversation, and the commitment to genuine collaboration here is unlike anything I’ve seen elsewhere in Montana. When you’re in a room where people consistently put the community’s needs above their own organization’s interests, you make it a priority.”
Looking forward, GBHC plans to pursue additional crisis stabilization services, implement clubhouse models for adults with serious mental illness, continue developing youth behavioral health facilities such as Lighthouse Ranch—which has raised $5.6 million toward an $8.5 million goal—and participate in statewide initiatives like Montana’s HB872 process and Rural Health Transformation Program.
