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Help Create a Magical Holiday for Idaho’s Foster Children: Join the Holiday Book Drive!
This holiday season, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s Family and Community Partnerships division is teaming up with Book It Forward! Idaho and Barnes & Noble to bring something truly special to children in foster care: the joy of receiving books chosen just for them.Books open doors to imagination, comfort, adventure, and belonging. Every child deserves that experience. With your help, we can make sure foster families across Idaho receive books that feel personal and
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Treasure Valley resident Shane Hanson has been providing for kids in foster care for more than a decade, but he just became a foster father for the first time this
Foster parents play a vital role in creating a safe and nurturing environment for children and youth in their care, and it is the Department of Health and Welfare’s
Nearly 100 Treasure Valley-area foster kids gathered on the BLUE turf at Albertsons Stadium Thursday night to run, kick, catch, throw, and flip with 75 Boise State
A Treasure Valley foster mom wants Idahoans to consider how meaningful it can be to make a difference for a family in crisis. In the past four years she and her family
Idaho’s kinship families came together last month to celebrate Idaho Kinship Family Day, which recognizes and honors families in which relatives or adults with a significant relationship with a child take on the responsibility of parenting when parents aren’t able to
Crisis prevention training paying off for SWITC; new video helps residents and families get oriented
Crisis prevention training is paying off for staff and residents at the Nampa-based Southwest Idaho Treatment Center (SWITC), a department-run home for adults with intellectual disabilities.
Treasure Valley foster families converged on Lucky Peak State Park last Sunday to take advantage of a new program offered jointly by the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation and Department of Health and Welfare (DHW). In all, more than 100 people gathered in the park to
The Department of Health and Welfare is chalk full of unsung heroes who work tirelessly behind the scenes to improve the lives of others they will never meet. One of those heroic groups is our child welfare workers, who protect vulnerable children, support families, and foster
Currently in Idaho there are seven bodies of water with active health advisories because of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs). However, there may be other blooms that have not been identified, and people should exercise caution to avoid getting sick or exposing
Kinship care refers to a heartfelt act where relatives and significant adults in children’s lives step up to take on the role of parents when a child’s biological parents are unable to care for them.
DHW took tough action this week to ensure that the costs of the Idaho Child Care Program (ICCP) do not exceed available funding for the current and upcoming fiscal years