GREAT FALLS — In Summer 2022, the Montana Department of Agriculture released a new initiative in partnership with Frontier Psychiatry in Billings to create free mental health resources directed at farm families. The partnership was at the inspiration of Courtney Kibblewhite, Vice President of the Northern Ag Network.
“We’ve been my family has been a farming and ranching family in Montana since 1960 and Wyoming before that,” Kibblewhite said. “I’m somebody in my family that’s struggled with some of these mental health issues. I always kind of fight depression. We figured if we are we are lucky to talk to farmers and ranchers, 15 times a day. We can kind of work on eliminating the stigma and talking about the challenging things, then hopefully that will allow people to better address their own mental health.”
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