Employees hard at work at the VA Laundry facility through Summit Pointe. Summit Pointe photo. Among the many programs Summit Pointe oversees is one to help folks who have faced significant challenges to find a livelihood and become contributing members of society.In...
Jordan Whitt You might think of the Wraparound program as wrapping arms around someone who needs it. In this case, it is more than one person; it's a family.In Episode 20 of the Summit Pointe series, we learn from Wraparound Clinician Melissa how families...
Photo by Matthew Ball There are many situations involving a diagnosis of mental illness. However, as case managers at Summit Pointe have learned, many of those situations require help to access the appropriate path. Sometimes, that path helps change lives.Click to...
Photo by Barbara Lies The Summit Pointe series continues with a focus on those 60 and older who may need behavioral health resources in Calhoun County, Michigan. Summit Pointe's Senior Behavioral Health Team encourages seniors to live life to the...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid overdose numbers were very high in Calhoun County, where Summit Pointe concentrates its behavioral health focus. Since those numbers have compounded. In this episode of the Summit Pointe series, Nicole and Meghan...
Summit Pointe First Step in Battle Creek, Michigan Having joined Summit Pointe in 1994, psychiatrist and medical director Dr. James Gandy takes account of some strides made in brain health overall. Such strides, in his estimation, have allowed Summit Pointe to deliver...
Photo by Toa Heftiba For more than two decades, Summit Pointe has put to use an evidence-based practice called Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - or DBT - to help some in the community move their lives in a productive direction.In this episode of the Summit Pointe...
A national model is the basis for a program at Summit Pointe, the behavioral health authority in Calhoun County, Michigan.The Therapeutic Home Program pairs local volunteers with youth who have strayed from productive paths - and who need help resetting their...
Summit Pointe Autism Center Courtesy Google Maps According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of Autism Spectrum Disorder has nearly tripled since 2000. That is according to a collaborative report from the CDC and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg...
Summit Pointe Photo Our Summit Pointe series continues with a discussion of peer support in Episode 7. Very often, peer support specialists like Lisa and Priscilla are the deal-makers when it comes to helping people change their lives. Why? Because they have done it...