Department of Public Health and Human Services director Charlie Brereton reminds Montanans that new Medicaid Expansion community engagement requirements took effect on July 1. Most Medicaid Expansion members aged 19-64 who are not excluded must complete and document at least 80 hours of qualifying community engagement activities each month, which will be reviewed at their next redetermination

and she plans to continue in that role this fall. “It should be pretty exciting,” Wittak said of the upcoming volleyball season. While officiating, she said she enjoys being around people, making new friends and maintaining old friendships.

Attorney General Austin Knudsen has announced the Montana Department of Justice awarded four Children’s Advocacy Centers with nearly $150,000 in grant funds to help improve their care for child survivors of crime and abuse. The funding comes from a Johnson & Johnson settlement that resolved allegations the company manufactured, marketed and knowingly sold baby powder tainted with carcinogenic