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Children's Behavioral Health resources
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Family advocacy and support
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 is a family-run nonprofit organization that actively promotes and seeks solutions for mental health well being for our children and youth.
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.
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State Hospital South patient information
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.
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.