| Junior Board Update
Gateway's Junior Board is a fun, dynamic, diverse group of 20 individuals with three common goals:
1. To be ambassadors for Gateway and tell others how they can access services or contribute to the cause
2. To serve as role models and mentors for the youth on our Residential Treatment Campus
3. To host an annual Golf Tournament to fund the activities they provide for Residents and to provide annual, unbudgeted "gifts" for other Gateway programs
This month, the Junior Board took Residents swimming and for a picnic at Oak Mountain State Park and took Residents for an afternoon of pizza and bowling! Up next...a Wii Tournament, a Drum Clinic, and Alabama Adventure!!
If you are interested in becoming a Junior Board Member, please contact Kathleen Ross (info below) for more details. And if you have access to tickets for events that you think our teens might enjoy, we would welcome such donations. |
Wish List
Our Independent Living Programs in Birmingham and Huntsville are each looking for a used truck/cube van suitable for transporting donated furniture for ILP clients.
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For more info, click here |
| Kathleen Ross
Gateway
1401 20th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35205 205-510-2612
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| Greetings!
June is almost over!! Before you know it, the kids will be heading back to school, and cooler temperatures will return...I can dream, can't I?!
I hope that you and your family can stay cool and enjoy all the wonderful things summer has to offer.
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Gateway's Residential Treatment Program and Rushton School
Gateway's treatment program and Rushton School are two separate programs, both located on the Airport Highway Campus. Together, they provide the services necessary to both heal the young people that are placed at Gateway with emotional and behavioral problems, often as a result of abuse and neglect and to prepare them physically, emotionally, and academically to live successfully in the community.
Gateway's Residential Treatment Program addresses community problems including chronic runaway behavior, delinquent behavior, sexual abuse, and mental illness in children 12-18 years of age, while Rushton School addresses the special educational needs of both residents and Day Treatment students. Gateway has provided ongoing residential psychiatric, medical, psychological, social and educational assessment since 1968. The program has provided services to children who meet the admission criteria for intensive psychiatric residential treatment services since September 2003.
Gateway collaborates with the county and state Departments of Human Resources and with Birmingham City Schools and Jefferson County Schools to provide these programs. The programs utilize Children's Hospital and the UAB Adolescent Clinic to provide medical services. The Residential Program also works collaboratively with JBS Mental Health, Jefferson County Family Court, and Beacon Addictions Treatment Center (UAB).
The melding of individualized educational programming, trauma-informed treatment, behavior modification, relationship-building, therapeutic recreation, and clinical support provides each child the opportunity to achieve the skills necessary for a successful reentry into the community.
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Residential Program and Rushton School Success Story
Amanda was a 16 year old student that transferred from another treatment facility. She arrived in our program with serious anger management and aggression issues.
Amanda received intensive treatment through individual, group, and recreational therapy. As she progressed in the program, she discovered that her maladaptive coping skills stemmed from a history of trauma. Once she was able to accept this, she moved toward healthier means of expressing herself and building relationships. She was able to earn privileges, attend off-campus school, and get a job.
She had attended 5 different schools, and her educational record was incomplete. The Rushton School staff sat down with Amanda and put a plan together that would allow her to graduate on time. Amanda followed her educational plan. She attended public school full time, taking all academic courses to include Honors and advanced classes, attended night school 3 times a week, and worked on the weekends.
Amanda graduated on time, transferred into Gateway's Independent Living Program, and enlisted in the Coast Guard where she is presently serving.
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