Northern Michigan is currently experiencing a lack of detention and treatment beds for children involved with the Court system.

The Grand Traverse County and Leelanau County Family Courts saw this issue and decided to take matters into their hands.

In February, representatives from the courts, including, Judge Marian Kromkowski, went to Lansing to gain government funding to build a facility in Grand Traverse County to house children who are involved in the court system.

Currently, the closest facility for children in Northern Michigan is in Midland.

However, Northern Michigan families are being forced to place their children in housing facilities out of state.

Judge Kromkowski states "So there has been a crisis in the state of Michigan for a number of years now, and it's only getting worse that there aren't enough residential beds, detention beds in the state of Michigan. And there is an absolute shortage of these beds in Northern Michigan."

So far, the funding would go towards the construction of a 32-bed facility, and the group is asking for $30 million.

and they have backing from the community as well, with support coming in from multiple organizations, including the Michigan House of Representatives and multiple Sheriff's Offices.

As of April, they have not yet heard back from Lansing, but they have hope.

Judge Kromkowski states "We have the experience and expertise to say that we believe we can run a very good facility would be a model facility with the best programing that is currently available for youth who are in need of more intensive services. "