Crystal Fox

You know, it might be helpful as in Michigan, the governor appointed a mental health diversion council about 14 years ago.

And that council has stakeholders from across the system.

And we've recently added the Michigan Hospital Association to it.

And so this group...

has been able to craft the legislation to get it through the legislature because they represent all sides.

We have disability rights online.

We've got prosecutors.

We've got the hospitals.

We tell them what their interests are.

Their emergency rooms are crammed.

They can't handle the population, and they know that there's a better way to treat them instead of in the hospital.

So the batch of legislation that we're working on now has passed the House and the Senate and will

really makes significant changes in how we handle mental health cases in Michigan.

And we had a unanimous vote in the Senate, kind of a weird yes vote in the House, but that's an internal political problem.

But there's increasing, and we're seeing more local politicians talk about this.

So it's just a matter of finding a way to spread the word, I guess.

Yeah, thank you for asking.

Yeah, thank you for asking.

Yeah, thank you for asking.

It was a slow start, a slow progress. We had gotten together. My son was diagnosed with schizophrenia. while he was in jail. And there was a group of us that were following his trajectory through the criminal justice system. He had trouble with maintaining his sanity, and he had to go back for Rule 11. And through that process, there was a group of us that followed him.