Therapists and psychiatrists don't often live in small, rural towns. It's a huge gape in Montana's mental health care, which Catalyst for Change is trying to fix one community at a time.
Therapists and psychiatrists don't often live in small, rural towns. It's a huge gape in Montana's mental health care, which Catalyst for Change is trying to fix one community at a time.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont. Grace Foulk remembers the concerts her family would host on the sprawling lawn of their three-room log cabin in Montana’s Boulder Valley, lawn chairs arranged around a campfire as her father played guitar. Her dad had passed down his love of music to her; Grace would plead with him to teach her chords on the guitar when he got home from long days working at the local mine, and though he was exhausted, he taught her how to play. But darker moments from Grace’s childhood cast a shadow on her happy memories childhood trauma that sits with her as vividly as her father’s songs. “I didn’t recognize a lot of the dysfunction that was going on at the time,” she said of those early years.