www.montanahphc.org/2025-farm-summit.html5The Quinn Institute, Vilicus Farm Institute, Abundant Montana, Farm to Crag and MontanaHPHC came together along with 50 farmers, healthcare workers, and others interested in these topics for the first ever event combining these 4 topics! Great fun, deep meaning! We It is a climate solution good for health, the local economy, and or farmers and ranchers! See more here
Dr Larry McEvoy, Dr Lori Byron, Mary Fitzpatrick, Karen Stears testified to the PSC.
OpEd by Dr Lori Byron published in the Billings Gazette, Mt Standard, Helena Air, and the Missoulian. Caspen Black has been our Program Manager from 2022-2025. They brought us into the digital age in so many ways! They have been thoughful and thorough in their work and have worked to grow and improve our organization. Caspen was born and raised on a family farm in Montana. Before becoming Program Manager, they served as an AmeriCorps VISTA for a Montana healthcare nonprofit where they coordinated new programs and events, and as a social science researcher for the Forest Service, where they studied community-based participatory research methods. They believe that when patients and providers work together as equals, we can build a more just, effective, and adaptable health system. They are also a figure skater, weaver, and aquarium hobbyist. 
Tabling at Earth Week in Billings and Earth Day at UMT (Missoula). And 3 of our amazing nurses - Dr Beth Schenk, Julia Ryder and Teresa Wicks were speakers at the Rural Nursing Conference in Bozeman, with a strong emphasis on climate change;
Minnesotan Nurse Dr Teddie Potter, an amazing climate advocate, was the Keynote.
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MTHPHC is grateful for the continued leadership of the foremost authorities on climate health in this place: the Selish, Ql̓ispe,& Ksanka, Niitsitapi (Pikuni), Annishinabe (Ne-i-yah-wahk), A’aninin, Nokado & Nakona, Lakota & Dakota, Tsetshessthase & So'taa'eo'o, Apsáalooke, and Annishinabe/Metis (Little Shell Band) nations. We endeavor to follow their examples, remembering those who have passed before us, and caring for future generations.
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