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Podcast: Richard Helppie's Common Bridge
Episode: Episode 292- From Crisis To Reform: A Mother, A Judge, And A Broken System
Description: One mother’s plea and a judge’s blueprint collide with a terrifying truth: the systems meant to protect people with serious mental illness—and the communities around them—often wait until harm is done. We bring Beverly Gille and Judge Milton L. Mack Jr. together to map how a 28-year struggle, from teen psychosis to homelessness and a mass stabbing in a Traverse City Walmart, reveals the exact points where policy, privacy, and practice failed.We walk through the pivotal transitions that matter most: when minors become adults and families lose access, when court orders lapse because...