Retiring Battle Creek Police Chief Jim Blocker with officials from Summit Pointe and the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). Courtesy Summit Pointe First Aired January 14, 2023Battle Creek Police Chief Jim Blocker announced his retirement in late 2022, with...
Battle Creek Police Chief Jim Blocker. City file photo First Aired November 19, 2022 Battle Creek Police Chief Jim Blocker speaks optimistically about a largely new staff of officers at the BCPD. He also offers a frank perspective on the role of mental illness-related...
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...