Updated October 2025
Percent Complete | Recommendations and Action Items |
Workforce Development | |
20% | Expand Behavioral Health Training Programs |
14% | Strengthen the Peer Support Specialists, Certified Recovery Coaches, Certified Peer Recovery Coaches, and Peer and Family Support Specialists Workforce |
17% | Address Rural and Frontier Workforce Gaps |
Program Awareness and Reduction of Stigma | |
75% | Integrate 211 and findhelpidaho.org as the central database of services available, facilitating a no wrong door approach |
Planning | Implement the Sources of Strength |
15% | Education for educators, teachers, and parents |
10% | Recommend educational programs tailored for rural Idahoans to reduce stigma, increase awareness, and improve understanding of mental health. |
Primary Prevention Programs and Protective Factors | |
Planning | Increase community connectedness throughout the state |
30% | Increase crime prevention education |
0% | Enhance youth life skills through engaging primary prevention strategies within a positive youth development framework |
75% | Implement the Idaho Pediatric Psychiatry Access Line (IPPAL) in Idaho |
Planning | Promote positive childhood experiences and outcomes by increasing access to quality services that address behavioral health and substance use disorders (and other ACEs) |
0% | Strengthen Idaho’s Safe Teen Assessment Centers |
0% | Establish standardized data collection tools and a public dashboard to support evidence-based primary prevention strategies and protective factors to promote behavioral health |
Foster Care | |
Planning | Use findhelpidaho.org to connect families and youth to resources, with identified priorities including youth mentorship, caregiver support, and academic support |
20% | Develop and implement a community faith-based platform to meet tangible needs of Idaho families. |
Planning | Evaluate and monitor foster care prevention strategies through implementation framework, ensuring consistent reporting and sharing of outcomes with stakeholders |
Diversion Systems | |
67% | Evaluate the processes around the age of detainment |
20% | Implement two pilot court projects meant to divert justice-involved individuals with significant behavioral health issues |
0% | Evaluate jails’ abilities to implement diversionary programs meant to address their service needs, such as behavioral health and education |
15% | Perform an Idaho systemwide review and gap analysis of existing and effective diversion and deflection programs/initiatives |
Help the Helpers | |
Planning | Create a joint task force or organization at the state level to support the behavioral health and mental wellness of first responders long-term |
60% | Research and review of other state and local practices to explore successful models for addressing behavioral health and mental wellness for first responders/helpers and their families, and report findings and recommendations back to the implementation team |
0% | Promote credentialing or specialized training for working with first responders to behavioral health educators, graduate programs, professional associations, and licensing boards. |
Planning | Needed statutory changes |
Crisis Centers | |
0% | Increase Public Awareness and Understanding of Crisis Center Services |
0% | Expand Crisis Centers for Youth Across Idaho |
0% | Improve Crisis Center Utilization, Operations, and Coordination |
0% | Ensure Sustainable Statewide Funding and Support for Adult Crisis Centers |
Criminal Justice – Continuum of Care | |
0% | Expanding Peer Recovery Services |
20% | Funding for independent assessors and other resources for individuals preparing to release from IDOC/IDJC custody/incarceration |
25% | Expanding MAT/MOUD across the system |
50% | Multi-agency partnership for screening, court processes, case management, alternative placement, and PV options (non-incarcerations) |
Treatment Courts | |
0% | Perform a gap analysis toward a recommendation for the potential expansion of Mental Health Courts |
0% | Adequately fund treatment courts |
67% | Explore options for participation in a treatment court without having to move to the location of the treatment court. |
0% | Streamline process of entering treatment court to reach the targeted 50 days from arrest/PV to entrance into a treatment court |
Deferred | Evaluate the ability to more effectively coordinate through programming and processes the transition from a rider to the community in a treatment court model |
Competency Restoration | |
0% | Conduct a comprehensive assessment and analyze ways to reform the competency to stand trial system. |
0% | Review of juvenile statute I.C. 20-519 |
Supportive Housing | |
Closed | Expand supportive housing options, including HART homes |
15% | Determine the housing and documentation resources provided for individuals exiting the state hospitals |
25% | Permanent affordable, and quality supportive housing options for justice-involved individuals |
Deferred | Conduct targeted education to further increase affordable housing options for individuals with significant behavioral health needs. |