Stillwater Alternatives

Stillwater Alternatives is the Columbus, Montana site of Alternatives, Inc., a Billings-based non-profit that has worked in community corrections and re-entry since 1980 and serves Yellowstone, Carbon and Stillwater Counties. Its outpatient and intensive outpatient alcohol and drug treatment sits inside that wider mission: the organization runs jail-alternatives programs in Yellowstone and Stillwater Counties, and residential facilities designed as an intermediate step between prison and the community — Alpha House, a men's pre-release and re-entry center in Billings, and Passages, which houses a 74-bed women's pre-release center alongside a 50-bed assessment, sanction and revocation center. For someone whose treatment is a condition of release, that means the clinical work and the supervision are handled by one organization rather than two. Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance are accepted, and a sliding scale is offered.