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How a lifetime of service shaped one Idaho foster family
Jesse and Hailey are Idaho foster parents who understand firsthand how complicated families can be. In fact, it’s something they both grew up with.Hailey’s childhood home was often full. Her siblings mixed with extended family members and foster youth her mother cared for, sometimes swelling to a dozen children on weekends.Jesse’s upbringing looked different but was no less
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This September, for the second year in a row, the Division of Behavioral Health’s Substance Use Disorder Services Program has published a booklet titled “Who’s Who, Idaho Recovery Month 2023
The Division of Public Health embarked on a journey starting in 2019 to improve the likelihood that all Idahoans have the same opportunity to live and thrive in safe, healthy, and resilient communities. To do this, the division led a statewide assessment to identify Idaho’s top
I was honored last Saturday, Sept. 9, to join some of Idaho’s kinship families and DHW staff in Boise to celebrate Idaho Kinship Day, which recognizes families in which relatives or adults with significant relationships with a child takes on the responsibility of parenting
Navigating the complexities of the health care system can be a challenge, but organizations throughout Idaho are turning to staff called Community Health Workers to add value to their organizations and the communities they serve
Late last week the Department of Health and Welfare completed its reevaluation of Idaho Medicaid participants whose benefits were protected under federal law during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Idaho Violent Death Reporting System staff are pleased to announce that an updated and expanded version of the IdVDRS Data Dashboard is now published on the Get Healthy Idaho website. This dashboard contains updates to the look and feel, expanded mortality rate data, and two
The Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) uses our Strategic Plan as a roadmap to define and share who we are as an agency, what our goals are, and how we plan to get there
Imagine a world where everyone has an opportunity to live their healthiest life, whether they live in a rural, frontier, or urban area, and regardless of their income. This is the essence of health equity in Idaho – making sure that every person has a fair and impartial chance
In 2022, 381 Idaho residents died from an overdose.
On Thursday, Aug. 31 at 10 a.m. I’ll join the Department of Health and Welfare’s Drug Overdose Prevention Program at the Idaho Capitol to help honor those we’ve lost, and to raise awareness for those we can still help. Please
A recently released federal report recognized the Department of Health and Welfare’s work to help low-income families buy food as the timeliest food assistance program in the nation
You’ve probably heard it said that prevention is the best medicine, and that’s the core purpose behind a DHW program that some of you may not know about. It’s called the Resource and Service Navigation Program, and its goal is to help divert families from needing to rely on