The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is stepping up its ongoing efforts to reform the state’s child welfare system by introducing new measures that better protect the safety and well-being of youth in foster care.
MDHHS today announced emergency rules for restricting dangerous restraints of children in child-caring institutions while the department works toward its goal of barring restraints from facilities that serve youth in the state’s foster care system. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer concurred in MDHHS Director Robert Gordon’s finding of an emergency regarding current restraint procedures. READ MORE!