The Gateway Center, Inc.

The Gateway Center provides guidance including exam accompaniment, victim compensation, multi-system responses to crimes, and additional resources to familiarize victims with what to expect and ensure that they are not abandoned during any phase after their assault.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for children, adolescents, and Non-Offending Caregivers who have been impacted by trauma. Research shows that TF-CBT successfully resolves a broad array of emotional and behavioral difficulties associated with single, multiple and complex trauma experiences. Therapy is conducted in a safe setting in which the counseling professional takes a combined trauma-focused and strength-based approach to therapeutic services. Identifying positive truths about self and exploring strengths in the midst of trauma has been said to diminish the appearance of post-traumatic stress disorder. Using narrative and solution-focused therapy in conjunction with trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy allows adults to work with a professional to navigate the challenges of trauma with a focus on the power of the future.

The Gateway Center will provide education and training through presentations at schools, community centers, Family Connections Collaboratives, Department of Public Health, law enforcement, EMS and other public forums on sexual assault prevention and protection, crime victims’ rights, victim services, and more.

The Gateway Center operates a free 24-hour crisis hotline connecting victims and other callers directly to staff. The Gateway Center, Inc. is a member of GNESA and a RAINN affiliate, so the crisis hotline number is searchable nationwide and all advocates are RAINN-trained.

Group Therapy is an exciting component of The Gateway Center that offers youth and adults extra support after the experience of a crisis such as sexual assault or domestic violence. In group therapy clients get to interact with others sharing similar stories and can use techniques and tools gained from individual therapy to guide others. Participants are led by counseling professionals through activities that will allow them to explore deeper parts of self that may have gone unnoticed in the midst of trauma. Using strength-based approaches such as narrative therapy and mindfulness, participants will work through barriers as a group as well as gain access to additional supportive resources internally and externally.

Art Therapy uses art to heal people of all ages, and can improve the emotional, mental, and physical state of most people. It is based on the belief that the creative process involved in artistic, self-expression helps people resolve conflicts and problems, develop interpersonal skills, manage behavior, reduce stress, increase self-esteem and self-awareness, and achieve insight.

The Gateway Center provides triage and medical examination services to collect evidence and give testimony that can be used in a court of law. All examinations take place in a designated, private examination room