Programs

Explore our programs that provide Montanans with consistent mental health support to promote overall wellbeing and prevent mental health crises.

Connected Communities

“Connected Communities” connects people with impactful strategies for supporting their mental health while building positive relationships through workshops led by licensed practitioners and experts, and fun activity-based meetups.

In addition to our core programs, we connect people to community resources and stories from others that break down stigma, help people ask for help, and connect people to services in their community.

Community Resources

We exist to connect people with the compassionate, professional resources they need. We are proud to support and highlight organizations across the state of Montana.

Stronger Than Silence

 “Stronger Than Silence” offers group counseling and intervention trainings for Montana’s most at-risk population groups. Our vision is that over time, this program will grow to offer long-term mental health support for for Montanans who face the greatest barriers to mental healthcare.

Stories of Survival

Our blog is a meaningful platform for sharing real experiences. Your story can help people who are suffering feel less alone. Want to share your story? Reach out.

FAQs

  • Meetups and workshops are open to anyone who wants to attend. There will never be a cost to participate. Come as you are, once or every month, to learn ways to improve your mental wellness while engaging in the community and meeting new friends.

  • Meetups will center around accessible, engaging activities that draw on proven strategies for improving mental wellness including nature-based experiences, volunteerism, and right brain activities.

    Workshops will discuss science-based methods for improving one’s own mental health and offer take-home strategies participants can apply in their daily lives. 

    Together, these events provide early-intervention mental health support, opportunities to reduce social isolation, and consistent access to mental wellness tools and techniques.

  • “Stronger Than Silence” specifically addresses suicide risk factors and mental healthcare gaps for at-risk population groups across Montana. Each program will be customized based on a group’s demographics, historical context, and social and cultural factors.

  • Through this program, we offer long-term group mental health support to specific population groups. All groups will be developed with, and facilitated by, licensed practitioners that have deep personal and/or professional experience with each group’s unique challenges and risk factors.  

  • Recognizing the cost barriers to childcare that keep many parents or caretakers from participating in personal wellness events, our goal is to offer free childcare at every workshop, group counseling session, and intervention training. We hope to offer childcare at these events by Summer 2025.

    All monthly meetups are family friendly; children are welcome to attend!

  • Our Mental Healthcare counseling scholarship program is currently on pause, while we launch “Connected Communities” and “Stronger Than Silence.”

    We are also evaluating ways to make this flagship program more impactful and sustainable in the future.

Full Circle

While initial programs will be launched in and around the Gallatin Valley, our goals are much larger.

We envision a network of Suffer Out Loud chapters across Montana that offer “Connected Communities” and “Stronger Than Silence” programs in their communities.

We are committed to changing the stigma that prevents people from seeking help, and ultimately save lives that would otherwise be lost to suicide.