The Michigan Center for Youth Justice (MCYJ) is releasing a new public transparency tool to help the public stay informed about Michigan’s licensed Child Caring Institutions (CCIs), which provide out-of-home care and residential services for children and youth across multiple public systems.

In Michigan, children and youth may interact with several different systems that provide out-of-home care and treatment. The most commonly discussed are the child welfare and the juvenile justice systems. Both of those systems are also deeply connected to the pediatric behavioral health system, which can be more commonly understood as dealing with mental health.