Michigan Advancing Guardianship Innovations Center (MAGIC)

Mission:

The Michigan Advancing Guardianship Innovations Center (MAGIC) champions individuals’ rights and voices in all decisions. We challenge the status quo of Michigan’s adult guardianship and conservatorship systems by preventing unnecessary guardianships, advancing alternatives, and promoting practices that maximize autonomy, independence, and dignity. By convening multidisciplinary partners and people with lived experience around bold pilot initiatives, we seek to serve as a unifying force to reimagine entrenched systems, test and advance solutions, and catalyze lasting change across Michigan.

Vision:

We envision a Michigan where every individual’s rights, voice, and inherent dignity guide all decision-making; where empowerment, not exclusion, is the starting point; and where guardianship is rare, narrowly tailored, and never static. In this future, due process is meaningful, alternatives are the norm, pathways out of guardianship are clear and accessible, and systems across disciplines are unified by shared best practices that honor each person’s strengths, autonomy, and humanity.

With generous funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, MAGIC will fill a crucial gap in innovation and education. MAGIC will have both immediate and lasting impact on the autonomy and well-being of vulnerable adults and the judicial system and stakeholders who seek to meet their needs.

For more information on MAGIC, please email magic@meji.org, or call 517-827-8010.