Upcoming Trainings
Hold the Dates
Idaho State University Institute of Rural Health is sponsoring two free webinars on July 10 and July 17, 2012 on basic suicide risk assessment and creating effective advocacy plans for your community. The webinars are offered by the Awareness to Action Youth Suicide Prevention Project as part of a three-year series of Academies on risk assessment, advocacy, and social marketing. Registration information and how to receive continuing education credits will be available at this site by June 1, 2012.
Recent Webinars
Traumatic Brain Injury - Spring 2012
This three-part webinar series in April 2012 covered topics on traumatic brain injury research, education, and prevention. www.idahotbi.org
News
April 2012Shoshone-Bannock Wellness Center moving ahead
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Wellness Center and Sports Complex project is moving ahead, thanks in part to a feasibility study completed by IRH researchers.
January 20122009 State Suicide Rankings
The Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention notes that Idaho has the 4th highest suicide rate in the U.S. The 2012 Annual Report of the American Association of Suicidology is based on the recently available final numbers from 2009. To learn more about how you can prevent suicide, visit our Idaho Awareness to Action Youth Suicide Prevention project.
October 2011Idaho Suicide Prevention Plan 2011
The Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention has issued the Idaho Suicide Prevention Plan 2011: An Action Guide with support from the Institute of Rural Health. The plan is designed to help communities create suicide prevention activities to raise awareness about the problem of suicide in Idaho, craft interventions, and design training for professionals who work with people at risk of suicide.
September 20112011 Health Care Heroes Award
Rick Tivis is an honoree in the 2011 Health Care Heroes program sponsored by the Idaho Business Review newspaper in Boise. Click here for more information.
July 2011ISU AmeriCorps programs benefit Idaho communities
The AmeriCorps program administered by the ISU Institute of Rural Health has had a profound effect on 27-year-old Cassie Stover of Hazelton, who has been an AmeriCorps health advocate for Head Start in the Burley-Twin Falls area for most of the last year. Click here for the full article.