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Summit Pointe is looking for "heroes" willing to temporarily open their homes to struggling teens in the community.  Calhoun County's provider of mental health care and substance-use disorder services has launched an innovative program where adolescents — primarily ages 12 to 17 — live at a therapeutic home for a period of six to nine months while receiving intensive counseling. Parents or guardians also receive counseling during this period before receiving their child back at the conclusion of the program. The program, still in its infancy, is seeking its first "therapeutic parent" t...

The latest count at Starr now shows about 50 are being cared for at the facility. Starr has a capacity ceiling of 224 kids. So far, only boys have been housed at Starr.

Calhoun County Sheriff Steve Hinkley is waving a red flag about being pressured to help provide security at Starr Commonwealth. Hinkley says his agency is facing a crisis.

Hundreds of donations collected for migrant children housed in Michigan during border surge Updated May 10, 2021; Facebook Share Michigan residents donated hundreds of toys, clothes and other items to unaccompanied migrant children being housed in the state under a federal program. A donation drive organized by state Rep. Mari Manoogian, D-Birmingham, and Fems for Democracy, a nonprofit political advocacy group, resulted in an outpouring of generosity from residents across the state. Volunteers said they’re trying to make life a little more comfortable for children who traveled thousands o...

Migrant children in west Michigan: The push to reunite children with their families © Provided by WWMT Grand Rapids/Lansing A former youth facility in Albion began housing more than 100 migrant boys from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on April 12, 2021. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened an Emergency Intake Site for Unaccompanied Children at the Starr Commonwealth campus in Albion, Michigan for boys ages 5 to 17 years old. As of May 4, 2021, about 154 children in care at the Starr Commonwealth intake site, which has a potential capacity of 224 beds, according ...