Michigan takes steps to boost bed capacity for kids in mental health crisis

Michigan takes steps to boost bed capacity for kids in mental health crisis

Staffing shortages largely drove reductions in residential centers for foster and juvenile justice kids in crisis

  • Michigan is building financial incentives into contracts with centers to help them build out larger, more secure staffs

  • In return, state health officials are requiring the centers to do more to ensure youth receive quality care

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Advocates Sound the Alarm on Northern Michigan’s Juvenile Justice System

Advocates Sound the Alarm on Northern Michigan’s Juvenile Justice System

Michigan has nowhere to send vulnerable kids as placement crisis builds

Michigan has nowhere to send vulnerable kids as placement crisis builds