Kids in crisis
Leaonard, a charge nurse in Kootenai Health's Youth Acute Unit, meets with a adolescent patient.
Photo courtesy of Kootenai Health
COEUR d’ALENE — With limited mental health care options for children available in North Idaho, all too often, families are forced to sit on waitlists or hope a child is able to develop coping tools to guide them away from having a crisis.
When things hit a critical stage and youth require urgent, inpatient treatment, psychiatrist Lauren Boydston is there to help them at Kootenai Health’s Youth Acute Unit, which provides care on the unit for children ages 10 to 13 and adolescents from 14 to 17. But Boydston knows families are often stuck in limbo wondering if care will become available before a crisis or if their kid is suffering beyond what they can cope with.
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