Community Health

Early Head Start provides comprehensive health, social and educational services for infants, toddlers, and their families through family-centered and community-based efforts in Bonner and Kootenai Counties in north Idaho.

Empower Idaho is a vital, central source for information and support for Idaho’s consumers of behavioral health services and their families. Empower Idaho provides a link to a variety of different stakeholders in the community and state who can assist with resources.

When you share your love, time and experience, you have the power to help a child who needs you. Foster Grandparents volunteer in educational based non-profits throughout the Treasure Valley and if eligible, receive a modest stipend for their time. Pre-orientation, monthly training and mileage assistance is available.

Honoring Choices©Idaho promotes opportunities for conversations in the context of one’s values, empowers individuals to make and document decisions, and helps ensure health care choices are honored.

Thank you for your interest in the Idaho Behavioral Health Alliance. We are currently undergoing maintenance on our website. If you’d like to be added to our mailing list, please email either Josh Scholer (jscholer@jannus.org) or Ceci Thunes (cthunes@jannus.org). Also, please visit our Facebook page to learn more about the work we are doing to advance sound behavioral health policy in Idaho.

Jannus is excited to be managing the only statewide Suicide Prevention Hotline for Idaho. Among states, Idaho is 7th highest in its suicide rate, yet was the last state to get a statewide hotline. The Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline is committed to the prevention of suicide in Idaho.

Legacy Corps for Veterans and Military families, also formerly known as Friends in Action, is a national volunteer-powered caregiver support program providing assistance to veteran and military family caregivers by veteran and military family volunteers. Legacy Corps volunteers provide companionship respite, caregiver education, linkages to community resources, and services that help veterans’ families.

Nutrition Works is a sponsoring organization for the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) in Idaho. The program’s goal is to help child care providers (centers, family child care) serve nutritious meals/snacks to children in their care. It does this by providing food reimbursement money and nutrition training to sponsored providers.

PATH (Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness) is a federally funded SAMHSA grant. There are 18 PATH Peer Support Specialists placed throughout the state of Idaho in the cities of Coeur d’Alene, Lewiston, Nampa/Caldwell, Boise, Twin Falls, Pocatello, Idaho Falls and also at State Hospital North and State Hospital South. PATH Peer Support Specialists provide outreach, guidance and support to individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who also have mental health or mental health and substance abuse issues. The program can assist with first month’s rent/deposit if the PATH participant can sustain future rent payments.

Services to Elderly Refugees links refugees 60 years and older to mainstream senior services and promotes development of capacity within local aging networks to meet the cultural and linguistic need of older refugees. Direct services include specialized English classes and assistance with naturalization for those who have been in the U.S. for five years.

The Southwest Area Health Education Center (AHEC) is part of a nation-wide system of programs created to improve the distribution, diversity, and supply of the primary healthcare workforce, with a special emphasis on meeting the needs of rural and underserved areas by partnering with educational institutions and state, regional, and national primary care proponents. Southwest Idaho AHEC works in conjunction with the North Idaho AHEC in Moscow and the Southeast Idaho AHEC located in Pocatello and other key stakeholders to promote and support programs that will enhance the health careers workforce. Idaho AHECs are affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine WWAMI Program.