mental health

Ada County officials are raising awareness for mental health and substance abuse through a family-friendly event tomorrow morning (9/24) at Julia Davis Park,

Residents of Idaho can dial '988' to call a new mental health and suicide prevention hotline that is being launched across the country. The idea with this new hotline is similar to 911. The hotline offers an easy to remember phone number that is three-digits and can be reached 24 hours a day. The difference here is that the calls will not go to law enforcement, but will instead be answered by a community of more than 200 trained crisis call centers.

With the high rate of mental health illnesses in our state, this is pretty alarming.

To promote connectedness in the Treasure Valley, there is an upcoming free mental health and suicide awareness event featuring International pop star Alex Boyé. This is an incredibly powerful and moving event for all ages full of music and guest speakers with mental health/suicide prevention experience and expertise. There will also be booths featuring local mental health organizations and resources available.

A Boise woman, Alyce Scarbrough, has been accused of stripping clothing, jewelry, and other possessions from the bodyguard Jo Acker’s dead body after being shot. She told detectives that she had “gone into survivor mode” and felt entitled to take the items from Jo’s body. Boise, Idaho Town Square Mall Shooting.

In the wake of the shooting that left two dead and several others injured in Boise, we put together a list of resources that could possibly help with mental health concerns.

During his time at BSU, a part from scoring touchdowns and being a scholar athlete, he also became passionate about suicide prevention and raising awareness for mental health.

Whether it's all, one, or none, you deserve all the credit for making it through this year!

Let's talk about mental health because mine sucks right now.

For the entire month of December, Starbucks is showing its compassion and thankfulness to first responders and people working on the front lines against the pandemic and beyond. At participating Starbuck locations, which is pretty much ALL of them, individuals who identify as a front-line responders will receive a free hot or iced coffee.