Overview of Group Home Care

For many children, the pain of family breakdown is too much. They have suffered tremendous loss and act this loss out in many ways. Sometimes their pain and their behavior are too difficult for a family to absorb. For these children, our group homes offer care, guidance and treatment. Our hope is that we can help these children make progress so they can eventually rejoin their own families, or succeed with a foster care family. While in group care they are building relationship skills with caring adults and we hope these skills will last a lifetime. Each home is targeted to specific needs and designed to address the unique differences of age and gender. We currently offer four long-term group homes for adolescents, all within Missoula County. We have provided group home care there since 1971. Three other programs are shelters but two (in Hamilton and Kalispell) offer both short-term and longer-term care.

Youth Homes operates seven group homes with different
• Ages of youngsters in the home.
• Gender of youngsters in the home.
• Numbers of youngsters in the home.
• Issues for the youngsters in the home.
• Levels of treatment and program design.


Our Group Home

The Susan Talbot Boys and Girls Home  |  2105 42nd Street Missoula, MT 59803

The Susan Talbot Boys and Girls Home works with youngsters whose issues relate to relationship trauma, depression, chemical dependency issues and oppositional behaviors. Lengths of stay are individualized but usually run 6 to 18 month. Learn more...

 The Susan Talbot Home for Girls  |  815 Tower Street  Missoula, MT 59804


The Susan Talbot Home for Girls works with females whose issues relate to relationship, trauma, domestic violence, depression, chemical dependency issues and often working through sexual victimization. Lengths of stay are individualized but usually run between 6 and 24 months. 
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 The Dennis Radtke Home for Boys  |  3218 Helena Drive  Missoula, MT 59803
The Dennis Radtke Home for Boys works with boys whose issues relate to conduct disorders, their history of victimization, early life trauma and chemical dependency issues. Many have sexual issues related to their history. Residents stay between 9 months and 2 1/5 years. Learn more...

The Shirley Miller Attention Home  |  550 North California Street  Missoula, MT 59802
The Shirley Miller Attention Home is an eight-bed coeducational shelter serving youngsters ages 10 to 18. Referrals can be made by Youth Court, Child Services, Juvenile Parole, Parents, and other agencies aware of a youngster in crisis. Services include home-like routine, youth care workers who are available to supervise and support the residents 24 hours a day, recreation and cultural opportunities, individual and group counseling, information and referrals to meet unique needs and access to community resources.  

The Attention Home offers a Learning Lab for residents already withdrawn from school due to chaos prior to placement. Other school district referrals are made and accepted to our lab. The average stay is 3 weeks and youth have stayed as long as 5 to 6 months in extremely rare situations.
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The Bitterroot Youth Home  |  196 Providence Way Hamilton, MT 59840
The Bitterroot Youth Home is an eight bed coeducational group home. This home is dually licensed to provide short term crisis intervention and placement as well as for longer term placements. The home serves youth ages 10 to 18 years and receives placements from a variety of sources. Most youth come from Ravalli County. Stays in shelter are for 30 days or less and longer term placements can run from 30 days to a year or even more under exceptional circumstances. Learn more...

The Flathead Youth Home  |  825 East Oregon Street  Kalispell, MT 59937

The Flathead Youth Home is an eight bed coeducational group home. This home is dually licensed to provide short term crisis intervention and placement as well as for longer term placements. The home serves youth ages 10 to 18 and receives placements from a variety of sources including self-referrals. Stays in shelter are for 30 days or less and longer term placements can run from 30 days to a year or even more under exceptional circumstances.  Learn more...

 The Tom Roy Youth Guidance Home  |  2824 West Central Missoula, MT 59804
The Tom Roy Youth Guidance Home is an eight bed coeducational group home for older adolescents in need of a last chance to live in a home like setting while they develop life skills and prepare for the adult world. Youth are referred from child placing agencies (public and private) and can stay until they graduate high school or get a GED. Residents are required to seek and gain employment while in care and save for their pending independence. Among the criteria includes the lack of a family with which to live. Learn more...