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Reaching Home: JG contracted to evaluate a decade Missoula’s foundational housing plan
Reaching Home is Missoula's foundational plan to comprehensively address housing instability and houselessnes through coordination and collaboration across Missoula’s housing services. This program has been in place for 10 years, established in 2012 through an effort...
A first for JG: Summer interns!
This summer, for the first time ever, JG Research and Evaluation hosted two undergraduate interns from UNC Chapel Hill: Emmaus Holder and Charlotte Dorn. It was so great to have two extra minds to help with the plethora of projects that we had on the line this summer,...
JGRE contracted to contribute to Montana Drought Management Plan update
JGRE has been contracted to contribute to the update of the Montana Drought Management Plan being led by the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC). JG staff will be leading a statewide drought vulnerability assessment to identify geographies...
April showers bring May hires: Spotlight on three new JG team members
This spring, JG Research and Evaluation added three new team members: Raven Truxson, Maddy Duran and Karl Vanderwood. To maintain consistency and give a glimpse into the lives of these individuals outside of the work space, we asked each new employee: What is your...
Understanding the experience of Montana’s peer support specialists: recruitment, retention and recommendations
In 2017 the Montana Board of Behavioral Health began certifying peer support specialists to use their personal experience with behavioral health disorders to work one on one with individuals currently diagnosed with behavioral health disorders. This position of...
Expanding partnership with NCAT’s sustainable agriculture program (ATTRA) leads to new projects
Since 2017, JG has served as the external evaluator for National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)’s sustainable agriculture program, known as ATTRA. JG continues to support ATTRA by offering evaluation expertise and support to the program, collecting and...
Montana organizations investing innovative programs to support pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorders
Unmet behavioral health needs of pregnant and pospartum women impact the health and wellbeing of women and their families, and there are many organizations working across the state of Montana to draw on evidence-based approaches to addressing these needs. In December...
Spotlight on data dashboards for integrated behavioral health
Integrated behavioral health (IBH) is a clinical approach to identify and start to address mental health and substance use needs in the primary care setting. IBH includes routine screening and the use of a team-based model of care that includes behavioral health care...
JG leads research on equity in climate change mitigation
For the first two weeks of November 2021, global political leaders, civil society, scientists, and many other will come together in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26). Discussions will focus on the future, and commitments...
JG adds five new team members in 2021
JG Research and Evaluation hired five new employees over the summer months. To learn more about their degrees and career interests, follow the link on each name to our Team page. To highlight each of these individuals as humans outside of the work space, we asked each...