Advocacy, Support, and Resources

Connect with advocacy groups and find support for you and your child. Learn more about serious emotional disturbance and mental health. 

Children's Behavioral Health resources

View the resources linked below to learn about Children's Mental Health services, our concern and complaint process, and crisis planning.  

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Family advocacy and support

Family Advocates
Family Advocates group works to strengthen families and keep kids safe by empowering everyday people to protect and enrich the lives of youth.
Idaho Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
Idaho Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health is a family-run nonprofit organization that actively promotes and seeks solutions for mental health well being for our children and youth.
Idaho Parent Network for Children’s Mental Health
The Idaho Parent Network for Children’s Mental Health is a volunteer organization created by parents for parents to work closely with the state to make sure parent voice is included during the development and implementation of YES.
Idaho Parents Unlimited
New diagnosis? Moving to Idaho? At a new stage in your child's life? Find IPUL's Now What? Guide Here!
Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Meetings
Interagency Governance Team (IGT) Meetings

The Interagency Governance Team (IGT) is responsible for collaboratively coordinating and overseeing the implementation of the Jeff D. Settlement Agreement. This team consists of representatives from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, the Idaho State Department of Education, and the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, county detention, parents, youth, providers, and community members.

The IGT meets on the second Wednesday of the month. Minutes from their meetings are public and may be viewed, along with the Operational Guideline and Workgroup Charter, below. Additional IGT documents can be found on the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) website. 

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February 10th, 2021 Agenda Meeting Minutes
January 11th, 2021 Agenda Meeting Minutes
December 4th, 2020 Agenda Meeting Minutes

 

Find providers and resources

American Psychological Association (APA)
Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
Idaho Psychological Association
Mental Health
Mental Health America
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
National Association for Rural Mental Health
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Optum Idaho
Information for Children's Behavioral Health Providers
Statewide Reporting
Behavioral Health Reports
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Block Grant Reports
Leisure Resource Manual
Division of Behavioral Health ATC Conference Session 1
Division of Behavioral Health ATC Conference Session 2
Division of Behavioral Health ATC Conference Session 3

Behavioral Health Boards and Councils

Idaho Behavioral Health Council
Idaho Behavioral Health Planning Council
Regional Behavioral Health Boards

State Hospital Patient Information

State Hospital South
State Hospital South
700 East Alice, Blackfoot, Idaho 83221
1-208-785-8401.

State Hospital South is suspending patient visitation at this time due to COVID-19. State Hospital South in Blackfoot provides psychiatric inpatient treatment and skilled nursing care for Idaho’s adult and adolescent citizens with the most serious and persistent mental illnesses. The hospital works in partnership with families and communities to enable clients to return to community living. State Hospital South includes 90 psychiatric adult beds, 29 skilled nursing beds, and 16 beds for adolescents. It also maintains a statewide program to restore competency of criminal justice patients. The 29 skilled nursing beds in the Syringa Chalet Nursing Facility offer services to consumers with a history of behavioral or psychiatric illness. Adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 are treated in a psychiatric unit that is geographically separate from adult treatment.