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Question, Persuade, Refer. That’s what QPR stands for and it’s “an emergency response to someone in crisis,” says the QPR Institute. In a training as short as a lunch-and-learn, community members can become “gatekeepers” able to respond to a person in crisis who may be exhibiting signs of suicide. Like CPR, QPR can save a life. …
Summit Pointe’s First Step Behavioral Health Urgent Care at 175 College Street in Battle Creek opened in March 2021. There were not many examples nationally of such an urgent care, but there was one – and it impressed our CEO Jeannie Goodrich when she toured it. Three years after that inspiration became a reality in …
Have a calling to help people? Change lives? A career as a social worker offers the rewards of doing just that – even saving lives. That’s what we hear in this episode of the Summit Pointe podcast from one of our directors, Lakeyta, whose social work career in community health “chose her,” but she wouldn’t have it …
An Innovative First-responder Model of Police-based Crisis Intervention Training The Calhoun County Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) was implemented in 2017. CIT is a National model that provides a foundation for Police Officers, Deputies, Dispatchers, and Correction Officers to respond to an individual experiencing a behavioral health crisis. A CIT interaction with a community member can …