Big Sky Resilience is an independent public-information project based in Montana. Its pages explain adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, resilience and protective factors through published research and public-health sources.
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We cannot help in an emergency. If a child is in immediate danger, or if you or someone else is in crisis, please contact emergency services or a licensed professional right away. This site is not monitored continuously and is not a crisis service.
We cannot give advice about your situation. We are not clinicians and do not provide medical, psychological or legal advice. For questions about a specific child, a diagnosis, or your own history, a family doctor, school counsellor or licensed mental-health professional is the right person to ask. The resources page lists organisations that maintain public directories, including SAMHSA directories of mental-health and substance-use services.
We do not run programmes. We cannot arrange presentations, training, volunteers or referrals, and we do not maintain a list of local practitioners. See about this project for what this site is and is not.
How to use the material
Each substantive claim is tied to a published source wherever possible. The resources page points to official directories and further reading, while the topic pages distinguish population-level research from advice about an individual situation.