Tumbleweed Runaway Program

Founded in 1976, Tumbleweed Runaway Program, Inc. (Tumbleweed) is a nonprofit, community-based, corporation located in billings, Montana. Tumbleweed meets at-risk youth and young adults where they are and strives to create a continuum of care, making space for hope and opportunity. The organization provides services to homeless, trafficked, Runaway, and otherwise at-risk youth and their families and support systems. Tumbleweed's crisis counseling and youth services are available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and are free of charge. Intensive services include crisis prevention and intervention; family counseling; adolescent support groups; information, advocacy, and referral to other community services; parenting courses; aftercare and assistance with Runaway youth and reuniting them with their parent/legal guardians. The resource center offers individualized advocacy to youth as they move from surviving to thriving.