How Michigan could improve mental health care for kids

We're continuing our discussion of the lack of inpatient psychiatric beds for children and teens in Michigan.

This time we're talking about solutions and giving you a look at what's being done right now.

Michigan is in the processover mental health care.

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To be clear,recommendations into my pabring this full circle.

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What are your thoI think it gives us hope bto go down this to me, isonly a half a step or a qua lean forward, you got toWilliams agrees, but alsowill look at more communitplans so they can limit inYou can resolve that probland helping those kids stathere is a crisis, becausecrisis is in the communityof the primary goals of thhas communicated a targetof a plan by April 2021 toBut those goals will takemiss part one of this convto re watch Part two, visi