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Mission Statement

The Student Health Services provides high-quality, cost-effective health care and mental health counseling with an emphasis on health education and wellness initiatives to promote and enhance student success.

Meet the Staff

Jerry Girard
Director

Master’s Degrees in Mental Health Counseling and Addiction Counseling both from the University of Great Falls

Hometown: Peerless, MT

Favorite Hobbies: Spending time with family and friends, attending live events, music collecting, and travelling

Favorite Quote: “What is most personal is most universal.” Carl Rogers

Emilee Kidd
Medical Director
PMHNP, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, FNP-C

Hobbies:  Reading, gardening, sewing, hiking and spending time with my family.

Favorite Quote: "Too often we underestimate the power of touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, a honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo Buscaglia

Kale
Insight Facilitator

Bachelors in Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counseling/Prevention & Psychology from University of South Dakota

Hometown: Helena, MT

Favorite Hobbies: hiking and fishing

Favorite Quote: It’s not the mountains we conquer but ourselves. Sir Edmond Hillary

Kelsey Osmond
Mental Health Counselor

M.S in Clinical Counseling from Bellevue University

Hometown: Basin, Wyoming

Hobbies: Playing with my dogs, painting, reading, four-wheeling, and fishing.

Favorite Quote: “The past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.” – Rafiki ‘The Lion King’

Dave Butler
Director, MSUB Clinical Testing Laboratory
Professor, Department of Biological and Physical Sciences

Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin

Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin

Favorite Hobbies: Tennis, Mountain Biking and Hiking in Deserts and Mountains

Favorite Quote: What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance

Grette Treat
RN

St. Olaf College, Bachelor’s of Nursing

Hometown: Mound, MN

Hobbies: runnning, hiking, camping, cooking, reading 

Sydney Norwood
Wellness Specialist

Bachelor’s Degree from Montana State University Billings (Health and Human Performance, College of Allied Health)

Hometown: Billings, MT

Hobbies: Reading, drawing/painting, hiking, taking pictures of my dog (Lulu), watching baseball, baking/cooking, and listening to country music.

Favorite quote: “I know there’s going to be some brighter days, I swear that love will find you in your pain” – Blessing Offer, Sam Ellis