IDAHO FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH INC
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Mission Statement
IFFCMH was founded by Idaho parents with kids diagnosed with Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED). They came together to pool their experience and form an organization designed to assist parents and kids with navigating systems and advocate for improved mental health services for kids. In 1998 they became the ID affiliate of the National Federation of Families for CMH. Since then IFFCMH has done all it can to fulfil its mission through a range of activities from support and education programs to respite and the parent network. IFFCMH also serves as the SAMHSA Statewide Family Network, the ID Youth MOVE affiliate, and is a founding member of FREDLA. IFFCMH was recognized and received awards from all three of our national organizations in 2017. The awards recognize IFFCMH for innovative programming, collaboration with other groups, and the National Youth MOVE chapter of the year, 2017. The majority of Board and staff members are parents with SED children utilizing their "Lived Experience" to help others.
About This Cause
Some recent accomplishments include: Initiating and implementing a pilot respite care project in collaboration with region 4 CMH; designing and initiating a pilot emergency respite project in collaboration with the ID Caregivers Alliance; formation of a Parent Network in collaboration with CMH; design and implementation (including curriculum design) of the Family Support Partners training for state certification (trained first 90 parents and prepared for state certification); annual CMH awareness week program which includes updates on the YES project; participation on the Jeff D mediation team resulting in the current consent decree and YES project; assisting with parent and youth participation on the YES work groups and committees; our Youth MOVE expansion winning and implementing a Dare to Dream national Youth MOVE grant; participating in several advocacy roles with respect to Medicaid and state contracts with Optum and Veyo; participating with coalitions and the AGs office on the Dietrich ID youth abuse case; community conversations addressing the opioid epidemic; and leadership of the Consortium for Idahoans with Disabilities.