Montana is a challenging and exciting place to provide psychiatric services to kids and families. Our state ranks fourth in area, but 44th in population with fewer than one million residents total. Montana is a beautiful place to live and truly is the 'last best place,' however practicing psychiatry in Montana is an experience unto itself. Many doctors are seeing patients scattered throughout a 200 mile radius while breaking through mental health stigma in our frontier-rural state.

The Big Sky Regional Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is the state's professional organization of child and adolescent psychiatrists. Our short-term goals are to develop a communication platform to address needs surrounding professional development, evidenced-based practices, mentorship and developing regional standards of care. Our organization also will continue to partner with child psychiatrists of neighboring states which do not have their own chapters of AACAP.

Our long-range objectives are as follows:

• To stimulate and advance the knowledge and treatment of psychiatric problems of children, adolescents and their families, both within its membership and in the community at large.


• To provide programs for continuing education of its membership, both as an independent organization and in cooperation with other organizations having a similar purpose.


• To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas relative to the resources and child psychiatric needs of the community.


• To collaborate with other groups interested in child, family and community welfare and mental health.

Click here for our Articles of Incorporation.

Click here for our 2011 by-laws.