In Our Community

The Gallatin City-County Health Department has completed the most recent community health assessment. You can see information about the process below. Find the final documents here:

Community Health Assessment Report Snapshot - Click to read

Click here or the image above to see the Community Health Assessment Report Snapshot

Community Health Assessment Executive Summary - Click to read

Click here or the image above to see the Community Health Assessment Executive Summary

Community Health Assessment Summary Report - Click to read

Click here or the image above to see the FULL Community Health Assessment Report.

Folleto de evaluación de la salud comunitaria: haga clic para leer

Haga clic aquí o en la imagen de arriba para ver el resumen del informe de evaluación de la salud de la comunidad.

Resumen ejecutivo de la evaluación de la salud comunitaria: haga clic para leer

Haga clic aquí o en la imagen de arriba para ver el Resumen ejecutivo de la evaluación de la salud comunitaria

2023-2024 Community Health Assessment Project

The Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan involve a collaborative process to identify and address issues related to health and wellbeing in Gallatin County. The Community Health Assessment is a systematic, data-driven approach to determining health status, behaviors, and needs of residents in Gallatin County. Information from this assessment is used to inform decisions and guide efforts to improve community health and wellness.

In this process, we look at key questions such as:

  • What are the strengths of our communities?
  • What health concerns do county residents have?
  • What are the emerging health issues in the county?
  • What other resources are needed to address these concerns?

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Community Health Assessment Details:

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January 2026 Update

October 2025 Update

March 2025 Update

February 2025 Update

September 2024 Update

July 2024 Update

May 2024 Update

March 2024 Update

January 2024 Update

November 2023 Update

September 2023 Update

  • Behavioral health has been a priority area for Gallatin County as identified in multiple CHA/CHIP cycles, and it persisted as a priority area in the 2018 Community Health Assessment. This topic was highlighted as a community priority in the subsequent 2019 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). Elevating Behavioral Health was a committee that formed in the community to coordinate efforts to address behavioral health for Gallatin County residents. That steering committee went on to develop further into a community coalition, Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition (GBHC), that pulls together community organizations active in the behavioral health space to collaborate on structured community improvement efforts.
  • The Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition work continues to be active and impactful in the community. The health department has had consistent representation and participation in this coalition over the years demonstrating a strong partnership and commitment to working together toward improvements.
  • The Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition has worked with a local research firm to develop a dashboard that provides a publicly available source of behavioral health community data. The data provide a wide-angle view of the complex network of factors that exist in a community to describe what is happening in behavioral health – from crisis call receiving to emergency medical services incidents and referrals from university student health services to behavioral health services.
  • The dashboard provides information that is updated regularly and validated by a group of professionals in the community. The dashboard seeks to strike the balance between providing information on issues that are at a crisis-level in the community without inciting misinformation. Rather, using information as power, the data provide critical information about ongoing efforts to work toward community-driven improvements in the behavioral health priority area.
  • In addition to dashboard files such as the most recently available version [click her for the data dashboard], the most up-to-date place for information about the Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition and the data it reports is on the Gallatin County website. Click here to view the Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition webpage.
  • The Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition dashboard and link to its own Gallatin County webpage demonstrates that these efforts are an addendum to the Community Health Assessment that provide additional data on a community priority area.

The 2017 Community Health Needs Assessment data highlighted disparities between Hispanic/Latino community members and non-Hispanic/Latino white community members. Further, chronic disease was identified as a priority area in the 2018 Community Health Needs Assessment. The Hispanic and Latino Health Needs Assessment was an effort initiated by the Chronic Disease team at the Gallatin City-County Health Department to increase the understanding of the intersection of these two dimensions: chronic disease as a priority area and disparities experienced by Hispanic and Latino individuals in Gallatin County. The data collection took place in the summer and fall of 2019, and the report was finalized in 2020. This effort and associated report are an addendum to the Community Health Assessment to highlight this additional inquiry into a priority issue for a population facing disparities in our community.

Click here for the Hispanic and Latino Health Needs Assessment 2020 Addendum

The following reports are Community Health Needs Assessments and Community Health Assessments conducted over the past years. Community Health Needs Assessments are large-scale data collection efforts, typically conducted in partnership with the local health care system. Community Health Assessments are developed by the health department in conjunction with a broad range of local partners. These reports paint comprehensive pictures of health in our community.

Community Health Improvement Plan

The Community Health Improvement Plan uses data from the Community Health Assessment to identify priorities areas in the community around which to develop collaborative action plans.

The priority areas identified for the 2025 Community Health Improvement Plan are:

  1. Access to medical care
  2. Housing affordability and availability
  3. Mental health

Many community organizations in Gallatin County are focusing efforts in these priority areas with rigorous plans and initiatives. So, rather than introducing duplicative or parallel efforts, the 2025 Community Health Improvement Plan highlights some of the ongoing work in these priority areas from around community while also calling out ways the health department (as the backbone organization of the Community Health Improvement Plan) can name work for which it is accountable in these priority areas.

The report includes the goals, strategies, and tasks related to each priority area, along with some additional contextual information and methods of how the objectives were developed. We’ll provide high-level progress updates on this page, so please stay tuned!

Click here to read the Community Health Improvement Plan.

The dashboard above displays the Community Health Improvement Plan or CHIP. For anyone needing an a more accessible version, please call us at 406-582-3100. Please note: Mobile view of the CHIP dashboard is only available in the Microsoft Power BI Application.

State Health Improvement Plan

Montana’s State Health Improvement Coalition spearheads the completion of a State Health Improvement Plan every five years, following the completion of a State Health Assessment. Similar to the Community Health Improvement Plan, the State Health Improvement Plan outlines strategies to improve the health of all Montanans. Priority areas for the State Health Improvement Plan include:

  • Behavioral Health
  • Chronic Disease Prevention and Self-Management
  • Motor Vehicle Crashes
  • Healthy Mothers, Babies, and Youth
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences

Information on the State Health Improvement Coalition, State Health Assessment, and State Health Improvement Plan can be found here: Click here for Healthier Montana website.

Additional Resources:

The Bozeman School District has many resources for community engagement and outreach.