Daines releases grant guidebook to help fight meth crisis
Sen. Steve Daines unveiled a new tool to help Montana organizations fight the meth crisis plaguing our state.
He released a guidebook to show available federal funding that can be used in that fight. It shows grants available for addressing addiction, prevention and treatment, law enforcement and also tribal communities.
On Friday, U.S. Sen. Steve Daines met with leaders from the skilled trades in Helena to discuss ways to encourage more students to consider apprenticeship programs.
Daines visited the Montana Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Center, operated by local chapters of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Electrical Contractors Association. The center offers a competitive apprenticeship program where young people who want to become electricians can earn a salary while developing the skills they will need.
Saturday veterans met in Hamilton and sat down with Senator Daines to discuss veteran healthcare issues.
Earlier today a group of veterans had the opportunity to sit down with Senator Steve Daines and open up about positive and negative feedback with the veteran healthcare system.
With Ravalli County having a strong model of what healthcare should look like for veterans, Senator Daines believes their model should be spread throughout all of the treasure state.
“This is a great example of veterans serving and helping other veterans. I hope they can take the model here in Ravalli County and spread that across Montana because veterans are getting help, better assistance, because of the veterans here in Ravalli County,” said Senator Daines.
Saturday night, Senator Steve Daines was in Kalispell at the Glacier Jet Center welcoming home Kalispell’s 495th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion.
This is the same group of soldiers that Daines visited in Afghanistan this past December.
At 11 p.m. Saturday, around 80 men and women returned home after nine months overseas serving the U.S.
U.S. Senator Steve Daines said he supports President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over border security because a wall along the southern border would limit the quantity of meth flowing into Montana from Mexico.
“It’s a southern border problem, but it’s a northern border state that is directly affected by what’s going on. Mexican meth is coming into Montana, and we have to continue to work on multiple fronts to address this issue,” said Daines, a Bozeman Republican, during a meeting Friday with the Bozeman Daily Chronicle’s editorial board. “We need to secure the southern border, and I support the president’s efforts to address this issue.”
Sen. Steve Daines visited Kalispell Regional Healthcare Wednesday to discuss the work the hospital’s NICU is doing with drug-addicted babies.
“They’re on the front lines of this meth epidemic in Montana,” said Daines. “We must do all that we can to combat this crisis in Montana.”
In just the last four years KRH received three federal grants for their neonatal department.
The most recent bought them an artificial baby called Super Tory that can simulate what a drug baby would be like. The doctors can use the baby to train on how to treat drug-addicted babies.
“Helping those moms one mom at a time, one baby at a time get on to the right path,” Daines told NBC Montana. “Sometimes breaking generational chains here of addiction to get on to a better path.”