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The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA, originally the Runaway Youth Act) is a US law originally passed in 1974 as Title III of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. [ 1 ] : 3 The bill sets the federal definition of homeless youth, and forms the basis for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Program, administered by the Family and ...
Gilchrist chaired the Michigan Task Force on Juvenile Justice Reform, which issued a report making recommendations to improve the state's juvenile justice system and informed the bills he approved.
Whitbeck, Les B., and Dan R. Hoyt. Nowhere to grow: homeless and runaway adolescents and their families. New York: Aldine de Grutyer, 1999. ISBN 0-202-30583-X. Gwartney, Debra. Live through this: a mother's memoir of runaway daughters and reclaimed love. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. ISBN 978-0-547-05447-6.
Executive order and legislative statute On June 14, 2021, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed an executive order prohibiting the use of state or federal funds for conversion therapy on minors. [94] [95] [96] On June 28, 2023, the Michigan legislature sent a bill to ban the use of conversion therapy on minors to Governor Whitmer. [97]
Court explains runaway policy: Hamilton County Juvenile Court takes the safety and protection of runaways seriously. I wish I could say this is a unique case. It isn’t. This tragedy is one of ...
In April 2012, some Michigan state legislators wanted to close all state juvenile justice facilities in the state, including Maxey. The closings were not part of the Governor's recommended budget, but were added during the House Appropriations Committee review. [4] On October 1, 2015, Maxey was closed at the start of the State's 2016 fiscal year.
State investigators found a slew of violations, including feces-covered walls, lack of clean clothes and no records that a youth received medication.
Kawkawlin Township is a civil township of Bay County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The township's population was 4,419 as of the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is included in the Bay City Metropolitan Statistical Area .