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Previous IRH Research and Projects
Better Todays. Better Tomorrows
This school- and community-based program, seeks to reduce suicide in school-age children through gatekeeper trainings on the signs and symptoms of mental disorders and trauma. Better Todays is part of our larger anti-stigma Social Marketing program to reduce stigma toward people with mental illnesses, their families, and people with other disabilities. Better Todays is conducted in collaboration with the National Alliance on Mental Illness Idaho Chapter.
Five Feathers Health Families Project
To enhance protection and minimize risk factors of children with substance abusing parents on an Indian Reservation.
Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program (IBAPP)
Through innovative research and demonstration, IBAPP is preparing Idaho’s health care workforce to effectively protect the health of Idaho’s population through emergency management of pandemic disease, bioterrorism, and natural or man-made disasters. The program has developed onsite, distance learning, simulation laboratory, and virtual reality training methods to bring state-of-the-art information and training directly to health care professionals throughout the state. Funding is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Grant # T01HP06420.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network – Center for Rural, Frontier & Tribal Traumatic Stress
To assist rural, frontier, and tribal communities in the treatment of child traumatic stress through technology-augmented resources.
Real Choices Project
To improve community integration for people with disabilities (developmental, physical, mental, and age-related) through anti-stigma, economic analysis, and effectiveness studies.
Telehealth Idaho
To improve healthcare access and quality in rural and frontier Idaho, and to establish a statewide telehealth resource center.
TBI Implementation Partnership Grant II
To improve healthcare access and quality in rural and frontier Idaho, and to establish a statewide telehealth resource center.
Real Choices Systems Change Grant for Community Living - Phase I
A statewide anti-stigma campaign and a needs and resources assessment, resulting in a plan for enduring systems change in community long-term services and supports.
Real Choices Systems Change Grant for Community Living – Phase II, Money Follows the Person Rebalancing Initiative
An effectiveness study to test and refine the plan from Phase I.
Wyoming Telehealth Network (WyNETTE)
To provide technical assistance and evaluation support for the Wyoming Telehealth Network.
EMS Phone Survey – 1,2,3
To conduct attrition survey of former Idaho EMS workers for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Emergency Medical Services Bureau.
Community Integration Marketing
To create value-based training materials and modules on community integration and show how individuals with disabilities benefit from community integration.