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Shannon Guevara stood in a courtroom in front of her peers — a group of people who, like her, had committed felonies but whose severe mental illnesses…
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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, nearly a quarter of Idahoans are living with a mental illness. Idaho has one of the highest suicide…
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All week Boise State Public Radio and the Idaho Statesman have been reporting on Idaho's fragmented, underfunded, and threadbare mental health care…
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Nine-year-old Kendra sits in one of the private rooms on the second floor of Boise’s Downtown public library with her community-based rehabilitation…
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Idaho prisons, jails and courtrooms aren’t just parts of the criminal justice system. They also have been tasked with providing treatment to Idahoans with…
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It’s a sunny September afternoon, and the room is packed. It’s like a movie theater before the lights go down — the buzz of nervous energy, nattering…
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Several people interviewed by the Idaho Statesman and Boise State Public Radio did not want to be named or quoted because of stigma surrounding mental…
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The voice started when Shawna Ervin was 16 years old, and it hounded her for two years.It told her to hurt herself.“It was relentless and wouldn’t stop…
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Two years ago, Philip Mazeikas answered the front door of his family home. The course of his life changed when he opened it.At 24-years-old, Mazeikas…
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Philip Mazeikas, now 26-years-old, started noticing signs of his mental illness when he was 18."I started thinking there was a prophecy about me rising to…