Listen to the 'On The Line' podcast: A built-in conflict hurts Michigan’s most vulnerable
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On The Line
Host: Cary Junior II
Producers: Cary Junior II and Darcie Moran
Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado and Maryann Struman
Guests: Detroit Free Press investigative reporter Jennifer Dixon; Lois Mulkey; Elizabeth Hertel, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services; Robert Sheehan, executive director of the Community Mental Health Association of Michigan
Theme song: "Fort Trumbull" by DJ LostBoy, Detroit
Email: ontheline@freepress.com
On this episode: Nearly 50 years ago, the Michigan Legislature gave patients in psychiatric hospitals and the recipients of community mental health services a set of pioneering rights: to be treated with dignity and respect; to be treatedin the least restrictive environment; to be free from abuse and neglect.
That system has a built-in conflict: When family members and others complain that rights have been violated, community mental health agencies arein charge of investigating themselves.
On this episode of the "On The Line" podcast, host Cary Junior II speaks with Free Press reporter Jennifer Dixon about her expansive investigation that uncovered a troubledrecipient rights system. Some ofthe state's most vulnerable children and adults — those with mental illness or developmental or intellectual disabilities — are suffering.
"On The Line" is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Podcast: How a built-in conflict hurts Michigan’s most vulnerable
