Eleanor Middlin was 15 when her family sent her to a Missouri boarding school, an 11-hour drive from her mid-Michigan home. It was the worst thing that ever happened to her. It also saved her life. “I’m alive because of it, and I will never be able to forget it,” Middlin, now 20, told Bridge Michigan. Her experience leaving Michigan for long-term care represents an emerging trend for the state’s youth in severe mental health crises. In the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number

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