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A new, periodic Community Matters segment will focus on local veterans. The segment will feature local experts from entities like Summit Pointe, the Battle Creek VA Medical Center, and the Calhoun County Veterans Affairs Office. In this inaugural discussion, representatives from all three organizations share perspectives and overall vision for future episodes. Episode ResourcesBattle Creek …
Dr. James Gandy, Summit Pointe medical director, returns to discuss men’s health. In particular, we asked Dr. Gandy to call to mind the top things he thinks of as it relates to men’s health. Episode ResourcesTiny Habits website Summit Pointe Podcast 53 is a Livemic Communications production. Summit Pointe, the behavioral health authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, provides …
In this episode of the Summit Pointe series, we sit down with our longtime CEO, Jeannie Goodrich. After 29 years at our organization, Jeannie talks about working her way up the ranks, the staff, the work that inspires her, and how she goes to bed at the end of a weekend excited to return to …
In this Summit Pointe episode, our own Mindy Oisten – Director of Autism Services – talks about the newly relocated Autism Center. Now situated at 155 Garfield Avenue in Battle Creek, the Summit Pointe Autism Center offers added space and new programs – along with some dreams for further expansion. Episode ResourcesSummit Pointe Autism Center …
It’s another community connection between Summit Pointe and, in this case, educators to help bring greater support to Calhoun County. The Summit Pointe Autism Center and the Calhoun Intermediate School District realized that working together to help students with Autism – and their parents – brought comfort and solutions at what could be a difficult time. Mindy …
Taking time to shed light on another of the powerful community connections Summit Pointe has in Calhoun County, we turn our attention to Starr Commonwealth. With a 100+ year focus on healing the effects of trauma for young people, Starr Commonwealth’s EVP Derek Allen and our CEO at Summit Pointe, Jeannie Goodrich, began to see some …
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 …