Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Bridgercare: Montana Family Planning Project - Building upon our extensive experience in providing Title X services, and with the support of our experienced staff trained to deliver high-quality, client-centered, culturally competent, and trauma-informed reproductive health care and education, Bridgercare submits this proposal to administer Title X funding for the state of Montana and manage a network known as Montana Family Planning (MFP). Bridgercare is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that directly manages a Title X service site in Bozeman and will contract with additional providers to provide comprehensive reproductive and sexual health care services and education. MFP will not only maintain Title X funding and access in Montana but will improve and expand it—by restoring funding to Planned Parenthood of Montana, recruiting federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and enhancing services for rural, frontier, and tribal communities using telehealth and other innovative service delivery practices. As a nonprofit entity, Bridgercare will not be subject to new legislative restrictions that direct the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) to both “tier” funding and prohibit certain providers from receiving Title X funding. Bridgercare, therefore, will be best positioned to administer Title X funding in Montana. This Title X Family Planning Services grant application seeks funding for a period of 5 years covering the state of Montana with an initial network of 8 subrecipients who will provide comprehensive Title X family planning services at 16 service sites to more than 20,000 clients in Year 1 of the project. The proposed network for Year 1 includes long-standing Title X-funded clinics, with decades of experience providing Title X services. In addition to Bridgercare’s directly managed freestanding family planning clinic, 1 Planned Parenthood affiliate, 4 public health entities, and 2 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) will begin providing services on April 1, 2022—with additional FQHCs to be engaged during Year 1. By Year 3 of the project period, MFP will increase the number of services sites to 24 and will cover 100% of the counties and reservations in Montana. MFP will serve a total of 30,600 clients annually by the end of the project period, an increase of nearly 50% over Year 1. In the proposed project period, MFP will increase access to and improve the quality of Title X services across Montana by: 1) Developing a strong, flexible, responsive infrastructure to administer the Title X project. 2) Investing in assuring service delivery excellence and innovative expansion of Title X services to those of highest need. 3) Reducing and streamlining much of the administrative burden imposed on Title X providers by the current grantee, thereby freeing them to focus on expanding family planning services. 4) Providing more effective training, data collection and technical support for subrecipients. 5) Raising supplemental funding to bolster Title X services and support more effective outreach to tribal communities, adolescents, and other underserved populations. Additionally, MFP will improve upon the administration of Title X funding in Montana by: 1) Developing a responsive and flexible administrative structure to effectively respond to the needs of a large and diverse state, along with responding to the needs of providers in Montana. 2) Allocating dollars through clear, transparent means and develop sophisticated performance measurement and monitoring systems to ensure that Title X funds achieve their maximum possible return on investment in Montana. 3) Making rapid and effective use of Title X dollars, with a focus on rural, frontier, and tribal communities and adolescent, Indigenous, and other underserved populations.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).