Community-Engaged Learning: Organizations
Service Opportunities that Connect Learning with Service
There are many opportunities to serve in the community through partnerships with local organizations.
Featured Organizations
TOTAL HOURS SERVED
727.5
Featured Organizations
Students worked 727.5 total hours serving Carroll and the broader Helena community for the Spring Semester of 2026.
- Mission: To create a non-judgmental, safe community space where veterans, active service members, and individuals of all backgrounds can come together to move their bodies and heal their minds.
- Contact person(s): Kristen Lovaas (kristen.lovaas@apcvets.org)
- Mission: Our hospice services place importance on the comfort of every patient living with a terminal illness. Our caring professionals are dedicated to providing not just physical care, but spiritual and emotional support to every patient and their loved ones
- Contact Person(s): Dan Flesher (daniel.flesher1@ehab.com)
- Mission: Family outreach serves people with developmental disabilities and their families in western Montana. We believe that all people have the right to participate in education, friendship, and community to achieve a full life.
- Contact Person(s): Chelsea Salas (csalas@familyoutreach.org)
- Mission: Once a “home for unwed mothers” who were generally sent away in secrecy and shame to have their babies and “give them up” for adoption, we have now adapted and changed to the meet the most current needs of our generation, giving families the opportunity to heal, grow, and thrive together.
- Contact Person(s): Malena Aberra (malenaa@florencecrittenton.org)
- Mission: Our mission is to be a safe haven for those affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking and to empower our community to flourish in relationships free from violence
- Contact Person(s): Kim Patterson (kim.p@thefriendshipcenter.org)
- Mission: We provide emergency shelter, three meals a day, clothing, hygiene, and feminine products, access to medical care, and more as needed.
- Contact Person(s) Dave Miller. Preferred contact method: 406-442-7000
- Mission: Good Samaritan Ministries, motivated by Catholic social teaching, works in our community to advance family life, human dignity, and the common good. We provide services to meet the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and families of all faiths, especially those most in need.
- Contact Person(s): Mikayla Kapphan (mikayla@goodsamministries.org) and/or Dan Bartleson (dbartleson@dohmt.org)
- Mission: An all-volunteer urban tree-planting organization in Helena, Montana. Its purpose is to enrich the quality of life in the Helena, Montana area with extensive planting of suitable, attractive, diverse, and well-cared-for trees and shrubs.
- Contact Person(s): Mackenzie Petersen (growingfriends@gmail.com)
- Mission: Habitat for Humanity envisions a world where everyone has a decent place to live and its mission is to bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
- Contact Person(s): Jeremy Ingram (jeremyi@helenahabitat.org)
- Mission: The Helena Area Community Foundation inspires people to make a difference by encouraging the spirit of giving to provide resources that benefit present and future generations in our community.
- Contact Person(s): Emily Frazier (emilyf@helenaareacommunityfoundation.org)
- Mission: To serve our neighbors in need by providing food in a respectful and dignified way and, by working with others, eliminate hunger in the greater Helena area.
- Contact Person(s): Patty White (patty@helenafoodshare.org) and/or Kara Snyder (KaraS@helenafoodshare.org)
- Mission: To provide shelter for unwanted and stray animals (primarily dogs and cats) while working to end pet overpopulation, reduce the need for euthanasia, and improve the humane treatment and well-being of companion animals.
- Contact Person(s): Nicole Noel (nnoel@lchsmontana.org)
- Mission: To inspire connections to the landscapes, water, wildlife, recreation, and working ranches of west-central Montana through conservation, now and for future generations.
- Contact Person(s): Tim Lawrence (tim@pricklypearlt.org)
- Mission: Helena Pointe is designed for individuals who want to live independently today and have the option to bring in extra support, if needed, down the road. Its supreme goal is to do and be the best in all it undertakes and to provide a Stellar life for its residents, their families, and their employees
- Contact person(s): Laree Roberts (lroberts@stellarliving.com)
- Mission: Creating a healthy and hopeful Montana through specialized psychiatric care for children and adolescents, along with a nationally recognized genetics program providing care for all ages.
- Contact Person(s): Alana Listoe (AListoe@shodair.org)
- Mission: Our volunteers are a vital, dynamic group that devotes individual skills and care, in order to support the purpose and services of St. Peter’s Health
- Contact Person(s): Cecily Townsend (CTownsend@sphealth.org) and/or Danielle Durkin (ddurkin@sphealth.org)
- Note: there is also a community-centered wing of St. Pete’s known as Population Health. For more information on opportunities, contact Kayla Morris (KMorris@sphealth.org) and/or Haylie Wisemiller (HWisemiller@sphealth.org)
- Mission: United Way is the world’s largest philanthropic network, raising around $4 billion annually, with enduring relationships across government, business, and nonprofit sectors. Its global mission is to improve all community residents' education, income, and health.
- Contact Person(s): Emily McVey (emily@unitedwaylca.org)
- Mission: If you've got a heart for helping at-risk youth in the Helena area, this might just be your calling. We are looking for a diverse group of all ages and backgrounds to build up the strength and safety of our community through Restorative Justice.
- Contact Person(s): Morgan Adams (Morgan.Adams@mt.gov) (406) 461-4470.
- Mission: To unite and mobilize people across Montana, creating and growing a conservation movement around a shared love of wild public lands and waters.
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