Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program
What is Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program?
A 40-week faith-based addiction and vocational training program for men and women who struggle with destructive life barriers such as drug and alcohol abuse, past criminal history, or continued occupational and housing barriers. Through a combination of addictions classes, Biblical counseling, real-life work training and experience, Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program provides the opportunity for men and women to proceed on a path to permanent Christ-centered transformation.
Benefits of the Program:
- Community: Students learn they are not alone in their recovery journey, by building relationships with other students, program coaches and program staff.
- Healthcare: Students will begin to address physical and emotional health challenges.
- Job Readiness: Students have the opportunity to earn credentials, build a vocational career path, learn to overcome potential employment obstacles, and discover opportunities for future employment.
- Life Skills: Students will be instructed with classes on finance, conflict resolution, parenting, relationships and overcoming addictions.
- Education: Students will have help assessing their education and create opportunities to pursue continued education such as GED and National Career Readiness Certificate. Select students also have an opportunity to gain ministry training through the Christian Leadership Institute.
- Biblical Teaching and Counseling: Students will learn how to anchor their lives in Biblical truth and experience the love of Christ through Biblical counseling. This will give them tools to restore relationships and change behaviors and expectations.
- Gateway Transitional Development Program: After finishing the Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program, individuals can choose to continue their journey of spiritual, relational, educational, and vocational development in a one-year paid internship at Gateway Mission. At the end of this time interns will secure a permanent job with Gateway Mission and then transition toward independent living.
Program Requirements:
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- Be open to the message of Christ
- Be serious about change
- Be mentally stable
- Able to cooperate and communicate with staff as well as other students
- Be relatively free of legal demands on their time*
- Have applied for Medicaid and food assistance
- Have a 30-day supply of prescribed meds
- Be open to random drug screenings
- Be able to climb a flight of stairs several times a day
- Be able to stand on their feet for an hour or so at a time
- Be physically able to do residential chores
- Be free of prescription narcotic use
*If students have a legal demand on their time that will interfere with the time requirements of the program, program staff reserve the right to deny acceptance into the program. If probation officers are willing to work within the program requirements, staff will accept the student’s application for the program.
“The Gateway Addictions Program has helped me find out how to overcome my addictions and confront my past. It has also given me a chance to know who God is and what He can do for me in my life.”
Kenneth S. | A Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program Participant
“I have been sober for the first time that I can remember. The Gateway Program has helped me restore my home, family and life.”
Lori Y. | A Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program Participant
“The Gateway Addictions Program has helped restore my confidence in my life. I know I am not alone anymore because of the community that surrounds me and knowing Christ is on my side.”
Kenneth R. | A Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program Participant
“The biggest thing I’ve been learning is to apply God’s Word to my life. I fought that for so long. Now I’m working on following God’s direction for my life.”
Lisa J. | A Gateway Addictions & Discipleship Program Participant
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Additional Information
- This program is unashamedly Christ-centered and faith driven.
- Women with children are welcome to participate in the program.
- Gateway Mission is not a medical detox facility. Applicants may be required to go to medical detox before entry.
- This program is more than a substance-abuse program.
- Following commencement, students will have the opportunity to advance to the Transitional Development Program for a year and gain employment, which offers up to one-year work experience at Gateway Mission.
For More Information: aorta@hopefoundhere.org | 616-928-3464
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