Anti-poverty coalition teams up with Havre youth group

A Havre organization and a regional anti-poverty group are teaming up to try to help youths all over north-central Montana.

Healthy Communities-Healthy Youth and the Northcentral Montana Community Ventures Coalition are joining efforts to build assets in young people, with a pilot project proposed for Havre, Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and Great Falls.

"That offers a lot bigger perspective for the assets process. It doesn't just localize it to this community; it spreads it out and regionalizes it," said Tim Maroney, a pastoral associate at St. Jude's Catholic Church who co-chairs the Health...