Michigan Partners With Rite of Passage On New Juvenile Justice Secure Residential Treatment 

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is working with partners - including national youth services provider Rite of Passage -  to offer secure treatment for juvenile justice youth. Under the agreement, Rite of Passage has begun to offer secure treatment for up to 20 youth at the Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Contract details were not disclosed.  

The new program, called the St. Clair Youth Treatment Center, is expected to include low youth-to-staff ratios. Program participants will be males between the ages of 13 and 20, with a history of delinquent behavior who . . .