Summit Pointe provides a broad scope of quality services for youth and families. But before we can determine which services are best for a youth, we must first understand their needs. In this episode of the Summit Pointe Podcast, Youth Care Manager Devan talks about...
Dr. James Gandy, Summit Pointe medical director, returns to talk about 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. Here's what he said. Episode Resources Tiny Habits website Summit...
In this episode of the Summit Pointe series, we sit down with our longtime CEO Jeannie Goodrich. After 29 years at the organization, Jeannie talks about working her way up the ranks, the staff and work that inspires her and how she goes to bed at the end of a weekend...
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...
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...
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...
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 for such an urgent care, but there was one – and it impressed our CEO Jeannie Goodrich when she...
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...
Calhoun County Sheriff Steve Hinkley and Summit Pointe justice systems lead Taneisha share their perspectives on how the Jail Services program has advanced in recent years. In doing so, they discuss the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) component, designed to cut...
In another Summit Pointe Community Connection episode, representatives from the Bronson Battle Creek Emergency Department and Summit Pointe/First Step reflect on how their commitment to serving Calhoun County residents has worked out. Summit Pointe Clinical Director...
