BPA Health News, Updates, and Reminders:
Student and Family Assistance Program (SFAP) - BPA Health is excited to announce a new partnership aimed at addressing student mental health and supporting families in our community. On September 1, 2021, the Twin Falls School District began offering the Student and Family Assistance Program (SFAP) through BPA Health for every enrolled student.
This offering includes five counseling sessions for each student and their families. These sessions are free to the student and family members and are solution-focused, allowing students to reduce problems that interfere with their academic success. The SFAP offers in-person counseling as well as virtual appointments so that families can access the help they need in a timely manner.
Additionally, the SFAP features a crisis hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for families and students who need immediate assistance. And, the SFAP through BPA Health offers additional support services including legal and financial consultation and planning along with a website that provides a full suite of legal forms and documents, webinars, articles, and other resources to promote well-being.
The SFAP is now live in Idaho with the Twin Falls School District on September 1, 2021 and we look forward to expanding this critical program across the state to reach more students and their families!
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The Idaho Lives Project has partnered with BPA Health to provide free 8-week support groups for people who have attempted suicide. These groups are for adults ages 18 and over and will take place statewide and/or virtually once a sufficient number of participants have registered in each region. Space will be limited. These confidential, closed groups will be facilitated by a licensed clinician and a peer with lived experience of surviving a suicide attempt. People interested in participating should call 208-947-5155 to be added to registration list. A clinician will follow up with them shortly afterwards for the next steps.
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Counseling Assistance for Frontline/Essential Workers (Idaho): Good news! This program has been extended through August of 2022! Anyone who is a frontline / essential worker is eligible for five or more free counseling sessions if they do not have other access to counseling through private insurance or an EAP (though people with a barrier due to cost or high deductibles are eligible!)
Do you know someone who provides, or do you yourself provide, face-to-face services in the community? Grocery workers, transportation workers, counselors, medical professionals, in-home caregivers, etc.?
Click here for details or call (866)536-0239 for a referral for free counseling sessions today.
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Client engagement and customer service reminder: when you receive an authorization to provide a service please follow up with the client to schedule an appointment. For those providers seeing Idaho SUD funded clients, if you are unable to see the client, please make sure to decline the authorization in WITS so the client can be authorized to see another provider.
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BPA Health is Growing!
For over 40 years, BPA Health has pioneered behavioral health in Idaho and the Northwest. We are committed to providing real and human solutions that make lives better, organizations more effective, and communities stronger. And we’re growing! Please click on the links below to apply for our current contracted job openings:
BPA Health is seeking to contract with qualified behavioral health Regional Clinical Case Managers (RCCM) for Regions 6 and 7 in Eastern Idaho. The RCCM will work approximately 10-12 hours per month as part of the Idaho Lives Project/Garrett Lee Smith grant in assisting in reintegrating referred youth who have attempted suicide or who struggle with severe ideation. The RCCM will work with 4-10 families per year and will facilitate young adult peer led support groups, maintain relationships with local schools and participates in monthly staffing calls with the Idaho Lives team at BPA Health. This is a great opportunity to keep your current client caseload and supplement your income. If interested in working more hours, we would be willing to discuss contracting with one person to work in both Regions.