Idaho is launching a new mental-health program, Youth Empowerment Services (YES), to provide individualized care throughout the state to children with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
YES Created to Address Children’s Needs YES was created in response to the Jeff D. class-action lawsuit that began in 1980. At that time, both children and adults received mental-health care at State Hospital South. The lawsuit argued that Idaho lacked sufficient treatment, educational, and community-based services, which allegedly violated patients’ rights under the U.S.…