Category: News

Focusing on Resilience and Empowerment for Young People

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Taking time to illuminate another of Summit Pointe’s powerful community connections 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 own CEO at Summit Pointe, Jeannie Goodrich, began to see some common goals – and how to achieve them by working together.

In this episode, the pair talks about what motivated them – and the amazing outcome called “the REC” – or Resilience and Empowerment Center – a partnership that includes the Battle Creek Family YMCA and some local schools. Click to hear more.

Episode Resources
Starr Commonwealth website
The REC website
Summit Pointe/First Step website
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The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

Looking Back – and Forward – After Three Years at First Step

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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 Calhoun County, Jeannie is joined by Travis Atkinson of tbd Solutions to discuss how the vision became a reality, how the concept is evolving, and how Jeannie envisions First Step’s future.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care

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The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

A Career in Social Work is Rewarding

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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 any other way.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care

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The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department and Summit Pointe Change Lives

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Calhoun County Sheriff Steve Hinkley joins Summit Pointe justice systems lead Taneisha to share their perspectives on how the Jail Services program has advanced in recent years.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care

More Summit Pointe episodes

The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

Mental Health Community Needs Assessment

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The Summit Pointe Board of Directors is required to conduct an assessment of the mental health needs of our community.  This assessment must involve public and private providers, school systems, and other key community partners and stakeholders.

 

We understand that the mental health needs of our community manifest themselves in various ways.  In order to better understand these needs, we are asking you, as our community partner, to share with us the trends and needs you identify that may be related to, or indicative of, a mental health need. To this end, we are asking that you take a few minutes to answer the following questions.

Take The Survey!

First Step Collaborates with Bronson Battle Creek Emergency Department

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Summit Pointe Clinical Director Sean Field and Paul Bodenberg, who has overseen the Bronson Battle Creek ED, talk about how both entities have been able to level-up behavioral health services.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care

Bronson Battle Creek website

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The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

Summit Pointe Can Help Understand and Deal with Stress

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Summit Pointe Clinician Lesa discusses how stress affects the body and mind, as well as some of the typical responses humans use as a result.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care
More Summit Pointe episodes

The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

I/DD Support: Transforming Lives in Calhoun County

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In this episode, Summit Pointe Care Manager Kristi highlights how the team assisting those with intellectual or developmental disabilities puts them in a position to significantly change their lives. Perhaps even save them. Listen now to our podcast facilitated by Richard Piet with Livemic Communications.

Episode Resources:
Summit Pointe I/DD website
Summit Pointe website
Summit Pointe First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care

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The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

Community Connection: Summit Pointe and Battle Creek VA Work Together to Help Veterans

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Summit Pointe Veteran Navigator, Michele Pascoe, and Battle Creek Veterans Administration Local Recovery Coordinator, Russell Bell, are both working to help area vets receive services to which they are entitled. But, as we learn from both of them, the partnership formed between the two organizations is often key to getting the job done. We also learn about some of the myths and obstacles they help Veterans overcome. Listen now to our podcast facilitated by Richard Piet with Livemic Communications.

Episode Resources:
Battle Creek VA website
Summit Pointe website
Calhoun County Veterans Affairs website
Summit Pointe Podcast: Helping Veterans When They Need It

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The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.

Depression, Psychotropic Drugs and Community Wellness

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Summit Pointe Physician Assistant, Randall Johnson, helps us understand psychotropic drugs and the role they play in community wellness. He also discusses alternatives to such drugs, as well as an overall approach to depression and community wellness at Summit Pointe and First Step.

Episode Resources:
Summit Pointe First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care
More Summit Pointe episodes

The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  For more information, visit Livemic Communications.