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NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A state employee has raised concerns about how children are being cared for at the Walter Reuther Psychiatric Hospital in Westland.
The children were patients at the state-run Hawthorn Center in Northville Township, but have been moved while the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services builds a new psychiatric hospital on the Hawthorn site.
NORTHVILLE, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - State health officials announced that a new inpatient psychiatric hospital will be built at the site of the Hawthorn Center to provide behavioral health services to Michigan residents.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Technology, Management & Budget made the announcement. They said the new hospital is possible thanks to a $325 million budget allocation by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Author Daniel Kahneman in “Thinking, Fast and Slow” explains how two modes in our brains make decisions. One is fast/hot, an instinctive and emotional process often fueled by anger, fear or a survival response. The other is the slow/cool system, characterized by a calm and more conscious state of mind that is rational, thoughtful, deliberate and capable of making complex decisions. Both modes have their virtues and vices, depending on the circumstances in which a decision is being made.
Juvenile justice expert David Roush
Michigan’s responses to the death of Cornelius Frederick, a teen who was killed while being restrained by staff at a residential care facility with a history of licensing violations, were fast/hot ones.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointed a task force to examine the state’s juvenile justice system and recommend reforms after a Black teen was jailed for not doing her online coursework.
The Illinois State Board of Education has ordered Chicago Public Schools to fix problems with special education services for students at the high school in the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
LANSING — The new director of the Ingham County Youth Center wants it to seem less like detention and more like rehabilitation.
Annette Ellison, a clinical social worker by trade, said her hiring speaks to the court's dedication to rehabilitating children, not just detaining and punishing them.
Michigan’s juvenile justice system is archaic. Counties act with little oversight, and the state keeps such poor data it doesn’t know how many juveniles it has in custody or what happens to them once they’re in the system.
Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-174, rescission of Executive Order 2020-156
