RBHI believes all children deserve access to affordable, effective mental health care so they can live full, functional, and healthy lives.

Over a third of deaths among Montanan children are due to suicide. These deaths are largely preventable if children receive the care they need.

Our flagship program, Screening Linked to Care (SLTC), is a FREE, school-based suicide prevention program for 6th- to 12th-grade students that includes universal mental health screening, virtual same-day care for students with suicidality, and wraparound services (case management and clinical care). RBHI harnesses technology to deliver SLTC to students no matter where they live or the resources available to them.

In the past 3 school years, RBHI has provided its life-enhancing program to ~400 middle and high school students in the Livingston School District twice a year (~1,900 SLTC deliveries). We have identified 75 students with an elevated risk of suicide and connected them with care at school the same day. Those are 75 young lives, children of our friends and neighbors, whom we could have lost to suicide who are alive today.

In addition to identifying children who may be struggling, we help families find the care their children need. We provide clinical care when it cannot be found in the community. We have also offered assistance when there have been tragedies in the school. We offer our program to all schools in Park County for free.

RBHI operates across the state. We have successfully delivered SLTC to 29,000+ students and connected 2,100+ students with suicidality to same-day care in the past 3 school years. Students who received SLTC multiple times were over 3-times less likely to experience suicidality and reported significantly reduced depression and anxiety symptoms between screenings. Thus, our program is preventing unnecessary deaths and improving the well-being of young people across our state.