Jannus, Inc. (formerly Mountain States Group)

Results: Every year the 20 programs of Jannus touch over 15,000 individuals. Statewide programs like the Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline answer thousands of calls to support individuals and families in crisis. PATH-Projects in Transition out of Homelessness help people in communities throughout the state find solutions to move from homelessness to security. The Idaho AfterSchool Network supports over 200 schools in creating high quality out of school programs that support educational success.

Programs: Mountain states early head start (msehs) provides comprehensive health, social, and educational services for infants, toddlers, pregnant women, and their families through family-centered and community-based efforts in kootenai and bonner counties in northern idaho through grants from the u. S. Department of health and human services (usdhhs) and tanf, passed through from the idaho head start association. Services include home visits, parent/child educational playgroups, and classes such as cpr, money management, cooking, and child discipline. During the year, msehs served 159 children. Msehs also provides assistance in linking families to needed community resources in areas of preventative health care, dental exams, immunizations, nutrition education, and developmental screenings. Some highlights of successes are measured with parents completing ged courses, enrolling in college, or becoming a first time home buyer.

msg is a sponsoring organization for the child and adult care food program in idaho. The program's goal is to help child care providers (family child care and centers) serve nutritious meals and snacks to children in their care by providing food reimbursement money and nutrition training to sponsored providers. This federal program, funded through the u. S. Department of agriculture and passed through the idaho department of education, was started almost 40 years ago and has been a part of msg since 1996. The program supports child care facilities with education and stipends to feed over 4,000 children well-balanced, healthy meals and snacks each month, playing an important role in helping to combat rising obesity rates.

the idaho office for refugees (ior) is a program of msg and is responsible for administration of the state of idaho's refugee resettlement program, overseeing the resettlement of 817 new refugees in idaho during the fiscal year from 17 different countries, primarily from bhutan, burma, congo, somalia, iraq, afghanistan, and eritrea. The wilson fish cooperative agreement is funded by the u. S. Department of health and human services to provide interim financial assistance, english language training, employment services, case management, and social adjustment services to assist refugees to become self-supporting and integrate into the united states.

all of msg's other programs serve vital roles across the state in areas of rural health, public health & policy, mental health, refugee & economic development services, healthy children and families and healthy aging. Funding for programs comes from a variety of sources including federal grants, state of idaho contracts, private foundation grants, corporate and community grants and donations and fees for services.