Part of our support for youth and families at Summit Pointe means removing barriers. Doing so may simply mean we need to go to a family at their home rather than have them come to us.

In this episode, we set out to understand better what situations might call for home-based services - and how they help.

Episode Resources
Home-Based Services for Youth and Families
First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care

Summit Pointe Podcast 58 is a Livemic Communications production. 

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

An approach to opioid use disorder might, for some, seem a bit ponderous: Using medications as treatment for addiction to another medication.

But, as we learn in this episode, Medications for Opioid Use Disorder - sometimes called MOUD - can be very successful and perhaps life-saving.

Bronson's Dr. Maureen Ford and Paul Bodenberg talk about what MOUD actually means, does, and helps.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe-First Step
Naloxone (NARCAN) Locations Map

Summit Pointe Podcast is a Livemic Communications production. 

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

Intensive Crisis Stabilization - ICS for short - is a Summit Pointe program meant to help young people and their families who are experiencing a crisis.

That typically means our Summit Pointe experts have to respond quickly and immediately for an on-site intervention.

Angela and Harry talk with us in this episode about the goals and impact of this program.

Episode Resources
First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care


Summit Pointe Podcast 56 is a Livemic Communications production. 

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

In episode 5 of the Summit Pointe Podcast, we caught up with Scott Teichmer who runs the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Calhoun County, a Summit Pointe partner. Scott told us about the zero-deaths-by-suicide concept and how folks like you can help.

Three years later, we get an update from Scott on how the protocol is expanding - and an understanding of how it all began.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe Crisis Line: 800.632.5449
Nationwide Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call or Text 9-8-8
Summit Pointe-First Step


Summit Pointe Podcast is a Livemic Communications production. 

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

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 the initial process in welcoming young customers and their families and guiding them to high-quality care.

Episode Resources
First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care
Youth and Family Services
Case Management

Summit Pointe Podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

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 Resources
Tiny Habits website
Summit Pointe website

The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

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 excited to get back to work.

Episode Resources
Summit Pointe/First Step website

The Summit Pointe Podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

In this Summit Pointe episode, our own Dr. 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 Resources
More about the Summit Pointe Autism Center
Summit Pointe website

The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.  

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

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 Oisten, Summit Pointe director of Autism services, is joined by CISD's Beth Opdycke and Jamie Rogers to talk about how this partnership is achieving its goals.

Episode Resources
More about the Summit Pointe Autism Center


**NOTE: The Summit Pointe Autism Center begins operations in its new location on Aptil 22, 2024: 155 Garfield Avenue, Battle Creek, Michigan.

The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production. 

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.

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 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 also includes the Battle Creek Family YMCA and some local schools. Click to hear more.

Episode Resources
Starr Commonwealth website
The REC website
Summit Pointe website
More Summit Pointe episodes

The Summit Pointe podcast is a Livemic Communications production.

Summit Pointe, the Behavioral Health Authority in Calhoun County, Michigan, is pioneering Community Mental Health Services by developing innovative ideas and community partnerships that lead to high-quality care and a healthy community.