mental health

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.

Idaho would have ranked in the top 3 except the gem state's emotional and physical well-being dropped the overall score.