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Healthy Minds Partnership

The Healthy Minds Partnership is a collaborative effort between schools, behavioral health providers, and the Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health. The partnership helps establish school-located behavioral health so students can receive behavioral health services at school.

How it Works…

The Healthy Minds Partnership is a collaborative effort between schools, behavioral health providers, and the Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health. The partnership helps establish school-located behavioral health so students can receive behavioral health services at school.

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    The Benefits

    Students have improved access to behavioral healthcare services, thus limiting school absences. School-located behavioral health can remove transportation barriers, and parents don’t have to miss work to get kids to appointments.

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    The Facts

    Data from districts that implemented the program show significant improvement in behavioral health clinical scores, a reduction in absences for participating students, and improved ability to focus on other student needs.

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    How to Get Started

    The Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health provides the Healthy Minds Partnership Technical Assistance Awards to Idaho schools each year to launch school-located behavioral health and improve student access to needed care.

Healthy Minds Partnership Roadmap

Download the complete Healthy Minds Partnership Roadmap for more information on each step.

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Technical Assistance Award

The Healthy Minds Partnership Technical Assistance Award is a non-financial award that offers valuable subject matter expertise and project management for schools and districts. These awards provide the support schools and districts need to build a school-located behavioral health partnership. 

This support includes helping schools understand what they are looking for in a behavioral health partner, building interview guidelines for selecting a behavioral health provider, supporting referral processes between school counselors and the behavioral health partner, and more.

Healthy Minds Partnership Technical Assistance Award Recipients

2022-2023

  • Cascade School District
  • Notus School District
  • West Minico Middle School (Minidoka School District)
  • Kellogg School District

2021-2022

  • Camas County School District
  • Idaho Home Learning Academy (Oneida School District)
  • Harwood Elementary School (Jefferson School District)
  • Jenifer Middle School (Lewiston School District)
  • Preston High School (Preston School District)
  • Richfield School District
  • Rigby Middle School (Jefferson School District)
  • Shelley High School (Shelley School District)
  • Ustick Elementary School (West Ada School District)
  • Whitman Elementary School (Lewiston School District)

2020-2021

  • Cardinal Academy Public Charter School (Boise)
  • Elevate Academy #23 (Caldwell
  • Orofino Junior High and High School (Orofino School District)
  • Shoshone Elementary and Secondary School (Shoshone School District)
  • Timberline School (Weippe)

2019-2020

  • American Falls High School (American Falls School District)
  • Homedale Middle School and High School (Homedale School District)
  • UpRiver and Heyburn Elementary Schools (St. Maries School District)
  • Bickel and IB Perrine Elementary Schools (Twin Falls School District)
  • Canyon Ridge High School (Twin Falls School District)

2018-2019

  • Blackfoot High School (Blackfoot School District)
  • Cassia Alternative High School (Cassia School District)
  • Declo Junior High School (Cassia School District)
  • Irving Middle School (Pocatello School District)

2017-2018

  • Nampa High School (Nampa School District)
  • West Middle School (Nampa School District)