In partnership with the Idaho Millennium Fund, Idaho Public Television has developed a statewide youth substance use awareness campaign aimed at changing attitudes and behaviors. Welcome to the Unaltered State explores the deadly drug landscape, highlights existing resources, and inspires hope for a substance-free future. 

Having a conversation with kids about the deadly and dangerous landscape of substance use is the rite of passage. We believe that kids are smart, and when they are armed with the facts about substances, they will choose to invest their time in their families, community, and passions. Use the Unaltered Talk resource page to start the conversation with kids in your life. 

Jillian C. is a senior in the Boise School District. She is a photographer, writer and poet who won a national 2024 Silver Key Award at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She will pursue a career as an English or creative writing professor. 

Megan Smith, PhD, is the director of Communities for Youth. Dr. Smith is also an associate professor at the School of Public and Population Health for Boise State University. Communities for Youth is a Boise-based nonproft that uses an upstream prevention approach for youth mental health by helping schools and communities across Idaho identify and address risk and protective factors. 

Alison Tate is the former director of Ada County Juvenile Services and now the administrator of the Division of Early Learning and Development at Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare. While at Ada County, Tate administered a detention facility, a probation division, and a programs/clinical group. She established Ada County's Youth and Family Resource Center, The Bridge, one of nine assessment centers across Idaho. 

John Condie, MD is a child and pediatric neurologist and St. Luke's Health Partner in Boise. Dr. Condie is a Board Certified neurologist with a Special Qualitification in Child Neurology from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He attended medical school at Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine and was in residence at Phoenix Children's Hospital and McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Chicago.  

Officer David Gomez is a Boise County School Resource Officer in Idaho City. Prior to coming to Boise County, Officer Gomez worked in Meridian and Mountain Home schools. Gomez uses his knowledge and expertise to assist the Idaho Crimes Against Children Task Force and provide information to many police departments and community agencies on internet predators. Follow Officer Gomez's popular Instagram and Facebook pages for parenting tips. 

Amy Bartoo served as executive director of Idaho Drug Free Youth (iDFY) from 1991 to 2011 and received the 2010 Governor's Volunteer of the Year award for inspiring teens to resist drugs and alcohol. She is currently a board member of iDFY and the Business Development Director for Post Falls ER & Hospital. Established in Coeur d'Alene in 1991, iDFY provides statewide drug prevention programs and supports more than 65 iDFY chapters in schools throughout the state. iDFY hosts the Idaho Drug Free Youth Summit, an annual leadership summer camp for 8th-12th graders. 

Marco Erickson is the program director of Idaho Falls-based Community Youth in Action (CYA). CYA includes the LIV Teen Center, which provides daily transportation, meals, after-school tutoring, and enrichment classes for all area youth grades 7-12. Erickson has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Montana State University and a master's degree in psychology from Walden University. Erickson represents Idaho District 33 in the Idaho Legislature and serves on the Millennium Fund Committee. 

Kelli Rich, RN is the founder of Save My Family, a program created to strengthen families and help parents navigate adolescence. Save My Family events feature experts in law enforcement and pediatric neurology and provide parents with a simply plan focused on minimizing youth cell phone usage and maximizing quality family time. 

Randy Jensen has been the superintendent of the American Falls School District since 2016. Hired as a middle school teacher in 1985, Jensen was the middle school principal in American Falls for 28 years, winning the Idaho Principal of the Year award in 2005. Jensen was Idaho Superintendent of the year in 2023. Upon Jensen's recommendations, the American Falls School District implemented Care Solace which helps the district navigate the mental health care system and find available providers matched to specific needs for students, faculty and staff. 

Cynthia Floyd is a nurse practitioner in the Marsing School District. Floyd grew up and is raising her family in Marsing. Prior to her work in Marsing Schools, Floyd was a nurse in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and has fostered or adopted children she cared for in the NICU. The Marsing School District is in its third year of conducting a Youth Well-Being Survey and their second year of working as a Community for Youth. 

Jeff Gray attended and later volunteered at Idaho Drug Free Youth and the Idaho Youth Summit. Gray is now a UX engineer and professional protoyper at Google DeepMind, helping dream up useful and transformative generative artificial intelligence experiences. He also helps artists built interactive art pieces and museum installations.