Interagency Coordinating Council
The council is charged with developing, through interagency planning and cooperation, comprehensive and coordinated prevention programs that will strengthen the healthy development, well-being, and safety of children, families, individuals, and communities-particularly children and families that are deemed to be at risk.
The council has identified five specific goals:
- Reducing child abuse and neglect by promoting child safety and healthy family functioning;
- Reducing use by youth of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs by promoting alternative activities and healthy lifestyles;
- Reducing youth violence and crime by promoting the safety of all citizens;
- Reducing the school dropout rate by increasing the percentage of high school students who successfully transition from school to work, post-secondary education, training, and/or the military; and
- Reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases by promoting the concept that sexual activity, pregnancy, and child rearing are serious responsibilities.
Members of the council are the:
- Attorney General
- Director of the Department of Public Health and Human Services
- Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Presiding officer of the Montana Children's Trust Fund board
- Administrator of the Board of Crime Control
- Commissioner of Labor and Industry
- Director of the Department of Corrections
- State Coordinator of Indian Affairs
- Director of the Department of Transportation
- Commissioner of Higher Education
- Two people appointed by the governor who have experience with private or nonprofit prevention programs and services
- Designated representative of a state agency who wants to participate and is acceptable to a majority of the other members