Community groups receive behavioral health grants

The North Idaho Action Fund in the Idaho Community Foundation is providing over $55,000 in grants to four projects working to improve the accessibility and quality of behavioral health programs in Bonner and Boundary counties.

The North Idaho Action Fund was established by an anonymous donor to support programs including but not limited to psychiatric or psychotherapy treatment, substance abuse treatment, suicide prevention and education, therapy and more.

Recipients of North Idaho Action Fund grants are:

- Boundary County Youth Crisis and Domestic Violence Hotline – $10,000 to provide mental health counseling to Boundary County victims of domestic violence or sexual assault

- Bonner County Partners in Care Clinic, Inc. – $30,000 to pay the crisis line director and the clinicians who answer the crisis line calls

- Community Coalition for Families – $12,000 to provide temporary or permanent housing needs – including motels, rental assistance and move-in costs – to people with behavioral health issue

- Jannus, Inc. - $3,885 to provide an 8-week series of parenting classes at Blue Haven, a transitional housing facility in Bonner County, for parents of children who are striving to address and overcome the factors that contributed to homelessness.