Optum Idaho Funds $420,000 Community Health Initiatives Grant In Partnership With Idaho Department Of Health & Welfare

Optum Idaho will fund a community health initiative (CHI) grant of $420,000 for statewide efforts that help children who struggle with serious emotional disturbances (SED). In partnership with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Optum Idaho released a Request for Proposal to solicit grant applications from qualified local or national applicants. The goal of the Community Health Initiatives grant is to improve behavioral health outcomes among Idaho child and adolescent Medicaid beneficiaries with SED by helping clinicians adopt and implement evidence-based psychosocial treatments. The grant will help Idaho’s effort to transform its behavioral health care system . . .