DEARBORN HEIGHTS, MI – A Michigan nonprofit is ending its youth residential mental health program, resulting in 154 layoffs.

Vista Maria, located at 20651 West Warren Ave. in Dearborn Heights, announced plans to discontinue the program in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice filed with the state on Oct. 21.

“Over the last decade, a combination of social, systemic, and regulatory factors has made it increasingly challenging to care for youth whose mental health needs have grown more acute and complex,” Vista Maria CEO Kathleen Regan said in a statement to MLive. “Many of these young people would benefit from receiving inpatient psychiatric support that we do not, and are not licensed to, provide.”

The Federal WARN Act requires businesses to provide advance noti

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