Today I’m offering Missoula a choice for MLK Day: you can support narrative controllers, like United Way of Missoula County, or you can support ME, the biggest threat to narrative control our local leaders have had to deal with since Krakauer exposed the Missoula County Attorney’s Office and other alleged protectors of public safety.
If you want to do the conventional thing, here’s some info on where liberal whites with the woke mind parasite can go to get their feels:
Now, you might be wondering, who is Dr. Damian Chase-Begay and what might he be talking about today? Well, before completely changing his name, Chase-Begay was known as D’Shane Barrett, a Native man who went to California to see how amazingly they handle drug addicts in San Francisco:
Barnett — who is Mandan/Arikara — has worked in the American Indian health field for more than two decades. He is the former director of the National Council of Urban Indian Health in Washington, D.C., and currently serves as the executive director of All Nations Health Center in Missoula.
Barnett earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology, with an option in inequality and social justice, from the University of Montana and has a master’s degree in healthcare administration and interprofessional leadership from the University of California, San Francisco.
He is currently completing his doctorate in public health at UM.
After returning from California, did this “Doctor” do good things at the All Nations Health Center? Or, did the All Nations Health Center experience serious problems in 2024 that unethically disrupted the continuity of care for the patients after a clinician was fired without consideration for the clients?
The firing came after an investigation by the board of directors about a past employee grievance. However, the behavioral health staff questioned the legitimacy of the investigation considering that nobody in the department was interviewed about the issue. Gervais was also only given 4 days to terminate with her clients which is against their ethical codes within their license.
The firing has caused a massive ripple effect on the department and its ability to provide care for their clients. All but one of the department’s clinicians aren’t yet licensed to practice without licensure supervision, which Gervais used to provide. Meaning the behavioral health department has now dropped the number clinicians seeing clients from eight down to just one.
In an official statement from ANHC Board of Directors regarding the situation:
“This is a private personnel issue that we cannot provide details about, and that so long as staff stay employed there will not be a disruption of service to clients and community. All nations continues to do everything we can to ensure our clients can access the physical, mental, and spiritual care they need at the center.”
However, the behavior health staff claims there has been a major disruption of service since the start of 2024. According to the department, there are an estimated 75 clients currently without care and 25-30 incoming clients that had to be referred elsewhere due to almost all the clinicians being unable to practice with no supervisor. Leading to a possibility of the department being shutdown, causing the staff to lose their jobs, and putting indigenous clients into difficult positions.
While the All Nations Health Center had their serious issues, undermining the actual care clients received, our “Doctor” was getting money to find more specific ways to pretend to help his fellow Indians.
The NIH HEAL Initiative has awarded Dr. Damian Chase-Begay, core faculty in School of Public and Community Health, a K01 Career Development Award in Implementation Science.
With this funding, Dr. Chase-Begay will rigorously adapt an evidence-based substance abuse prevention intervention to incorporate traditional ceremonial practices (TCPs) and then test this intervention with urban Indigenous young adults in Montana. Aim 1 will seek to obtain community-informed guidance on the selection and adaptation of an evidence-based substance use prevention intervention, and strategies for incorporation of TCPs, through a sequential mixed-methods process. Aim 2 will seek to test the effectiveness and sustainability of the adapted EBP at five UIHO sites throughout Montana via a hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness trial.
If an audience of virtue-signalers assuaging their white guilt by listening to a name-changing health grifter isn’t the kind of event you want to turn out for, then consider stopping by the Horse Teeth Gallery, located on the third floor of the Import Market, between 5-8pm. For a donation you can receive a PDF version of my book, The Great JuBu Karma Con: How a Judaic/Buddhist Death Pact Took Root in Big Sky Country. I will also have some of my Lego teaching tools and other show-and-tell items on display, so come on by!
If making an in-person donation to help me cover bills this month isn’t possible, there’s still my gofundme page you can donate to. Any amount helps!
Before wrapping up today’s post, here’s a link to a song I just posted with lyrics that hint at things I’m currently working on. It’s a weird world, for sure.
Thanks for reading!