From: Family Connections

Region 5 - Great Falls office: 202 2nd Avenue South 406.761.6010, 800.696.4503, Fax: 406.453.8976

Region 6 - Havre office: 2229 5th Avenue 406.265.6743, 800.640.6743, Fax: 406.265.1312

Service Areas:

• Region 5: Glacier, Toole, Pondera, Teton, Cascade, Chouteau, Liberty, Judith Basin, Fergus, and Petroleum counties.

• Region 6: Hill, Blaine, Phillips, Valley, Garfield, McCone, Daniels, Prairie, Sheridan, Richland, Roosevelt, Dawson, and Wibaux counties.

Family Connections Child Care Services Announcement:

For the health and safety for all in light of COVID-19, Family Connections offices in Great Falls and Havre are closed to the public. Our staff is still working and available. Contact us via email fcinfo@familyconnectionsmt.org or call us in Great Falls at 406.761.6010 or in Havre at 406.265.6743.

Family Connections Child Care Services and Emergency Related Services Available:

• Refer Emergency workers who need access to child care with referrals to child cares with openings.

• Refer families whose child care closed or need to find child care to child cares with openings.

• Best Beginnings Child Care Scholarships to help eligible families pay for child care.

• Child Care Professional Development courses available online for child care providers.

• Help businesses create solutions to child care for their employees.

• Assist child care programs and families with child care policies and rules from state entities.

• Connect child care workers whose child care has closed with open child cares or emergency child care needing additional staff.

• Help child care programs that have changes in enrollment or experienced emergency expenses access emergency funding.

Family Connections is a private nonprofit entity and is the Child Care Resource and Referral agency proudly serving twenty-three counties in north central and north eastern Montana.