Mission	The mission of Montana KIDS COUNT is to increase awareness and promote understanding of the state of Montana’s vulnerable children and families through the gathering and dissemination of data to advance effective policy and decisions to improve their quality of life.

About the  Kids Count program	KIDS COUNT is a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. One of the principal activities of the KIDS COUNT program is publishing the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being, which reports data including 10 leading indicators of child well-being in every state.