HRDC currently offers the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which provides financial assistance to households to help pay winter home heating bills with eligibility based on gross income and resources.
“This facility marks a lot of new opportunities for us in food production, food rescue, innovative partnerships, nutrition programming, connecting people to more services faster,” Grenier said Thursday.
“More and more folks in the Gallatin Valley and in the area are looking for ways to help make their dollars go further. And programs like this can really help folks make that happen,” said Sara Savage, HRDC associate director.
HRDC’s CEO, Heather Grenier, provides insight into the housing challenges faced by our community.
In 2023, the Belgrade Trailer Court was put up for sale, leaving many residents wary of the future. But now, the HRDC has stepped in to prevent the displacement some of these residents could’ve faced.
Larger communities with more resources (and bigger homeless populations) often find the patchwork approach to services is not effective enough.
Big Sky is a playground for some of the country’s most affluent, but the area has a big problem when it comes to affordability for the workforce that keeps it running.
Bozeman’s Human Resource Development Council recently opened its HRDC @ Market Place at 206 East Griffin Drive in Bozeman, offering resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity in the Gallatin Valley.
HRDC is delivering an average of 725 meals each week right now, around half of which go to Bozeman Public Schools students.
In just one year, the number of people experiencing homelessness in Livingston tripled, according to the 2023 point-in-time count.
Since 2015, Brooke has been working with Allergan Aesthetics, Body Contouring. In 2018, Brooke began her role as Senior Manager of Training. Brooke graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Commercial Photography from Appalachian State University in 2011.
Brooke began her role on our Board in 2019. However, she feels it’s more fitting to say that she gets to serve on our Board. For Brooke, an evening at our Fork & Spoon was her first glance into our organization’s powerful work. As Brooke states, joining the Board has only expanded her appreciation for the caliber of people leading our mission and the impact of our vast ecosystem of services. While metrics alone are impressive, Brooke likes to visualize each number as an individual example of support – an extension of a helping hand, a moment of relief – given to one of our neighbors. She is grateful for the opportunity to participate in shaping HRDC’s future.
Although Brooke spends most of her volunteer time with HRDC, she was fortunate enough to build with Habitat for Humanity over the course of the summer in 2020. Her favorite place to spend time is anywhere under the Big Sky, although Hyalite may be her favorite place on Earth.
