Gateway
Gateway is a game changer for Alabama children and families.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Alabama families carry the state's largest responsibility: they raise the best people to ensure the best future. At the end of their work day, they return to where the real work begins. It is the work that determines the strength of our communities. It is the work that can move our entire nation forward. We must give children and families the tools they need to become connected, competent and contributing members of our communities.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Therapeutic Foster Care
Gateway is Alabama's most experienced provider of Therapeutic Foster Care for children from the hardest backgrounds of trauma.
Intensive In-Home Services
Gateway is Alabama's most experienced and effective provider of Intensive In-Home Services. This program safely keeps families together and reunifies families through in-home counseling services.
Independent Living Program
Gateway's Independent Living Program serves youth at risk of aging out of foster care without permanent families. This program exceeds national statistics, helping youth graduate from high school, gain employment and become independent young adults.
Go2U School Based Therapy Services
Gateway is one of Alabama's most experienced providers of school-based therapy services. Gateway therapists work with students, families and teachers in schools.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Alliance for Children and Families - Member 2010
United Way Member Agency 1925
Mental Health Corporations of America 2018
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of people who received clinical mental health care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children and family members served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of people receiving financial counseling services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of children receiving school mental health services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of foster youth finding forever homes and permanency in 12 months
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of therapeutic foster youth adopted
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Therapeutic Foster Care
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of foster youth enrolled in college
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Independent Living Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of foster youth who obtained employment
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Independent Living Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of families that stayed together through counseling
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Intensive In-Home Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total debt financial counseling clients paid back to creditors in 12 months
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Please note this is a dollar amount: $462,081.
Total payday loans recovered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of families who kept their homes and avoided foreclosure
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Success rate keeping families together and preventing child abuse/neglect
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Intensive In-Home Services
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Please note that this is a percentage. In 2016, Gateway improved its success rate keeping families together and preventing child abuse/neglect to 95%. This program also expanded from 2 to 33 counties.
Total debt financial counseling clients paid back to creditors since the program's opening
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Please note this should be a dollar figure. Since 1997, Gateway financial counselors have helped individuals pay back more than $69,000,000 of debt to creditors.
Total number of foster youth who found forever homes and families in five years
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Gateway's method is simple, but proven. When we help families reach their full potential, our education system, economy, workforce and communities thrive. Thus our mission is not accomplished until Alabama children and families are connected, competent and contributing citizens.
During our 125th year of service, Gateway launched a bold 10-year strategic plan to move Alabama forward with child welfare, financial stability and mental health solutions. By 2025, Gateway aims to be a game changer for children and families.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
In order to achieve an ambitious vision, Gateway launched an innovative strategic plan in 2015. We collaborated with all levels of staff, the Board of Directors, community partners and industry leaders to develop a path never forged in Alabama. After analyzing the exponential changes in our social, economic and political climates, we asked ourselves a critical question:
How do we become a game changer for children and families?
Thus Gateway is in year two of its strategic plan, aiming to become a game changer for children and families. We are successfully pushing toward the following objectives:
• Lead transformational change for children and families
• Do what is best for families and work from a strong base business
• Become a policy driver for children and families
• Be the preferred provider of services
• Build efficient organizational infrastructure and capacity
• Expand our current product line
• Expand our foot print with new product lines and geographical areas
• Align resources and partnerships for collective impact
• Align facilities and resources with operations
• Align the strategic plan with stakeholders
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
No other organization can match Gateway's proven capacity to strengthen families and communities:
• Gateway carries a 125-year-old track record of strong relationships with the private and public sectors
• Families' ability to pay is not a barrier for Gateway services thanks to generations of community
support
• Gateway was one of the founding four community partners for the United Way of Central Alabama
and remains one of four agencies to receive an allocation of more than $1 million per year
• Gateway is the only agency in Alabama to provide a wide array of services for families that range from financial counseling to intensive mental-health therapy.
• Gateway is one of the Alabama Department of Human Resource's largest service providers and contract holders in the state, totaling more than $16 million in contracts.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Thanks to the commitment and expertise of our staff, Gateway accomplished our first year goals within eight months of the strategic plan's launch in 2016. More importantly, year one of Gateway's strategic plan resulted in game-changing outcomes for Alabama children, families and communities:
Gateway produced proven results for children, families and communities:
• Families paid back more than $650,000 of debt through financial counseling.
• 104 families stayed together through counseling.
• 34 teens in foster care gained employment.
• A record-breaking 13 foster children with mental health needs were adopted.
• More than 1600 hours of premier mental health therapy was provided to Woodlawn students and families.
• 70 percent of Woodlawn teachers saw improved classroom behavior and achievement.
• 15 families kept their homes and avoided foreclosure.
Gateway became Alabama's largest, most effective service provider:
• Boasted a 94 percent success rate keeping families together and preventing child abuse.
• Continued to help families pay back debt, surpassing the $69 million mark since the program's launch in 1991.
• Exceeded national statistics, helping 95 percent of teens transitioning out of foster care earn their high school diplomas/GEDs, compared to 55 percent. Sixty-nine percent of these teens gained employment, compared to 35 percent nationally.
• Expanded its Intensive In-Home Services program from 2 to 33 counties, becoming the largest provider in the state.
• Added the state's best school-based counseling program to another Birmingham City School.
• Became the first and only agency in Alabama with staff and foster parents fully trained in the nation's leading trauma-informed safety model: The Mandt System.
Gateway remains fiscally strong and responsible:
• Operates on a $10 million budget.
• Received more than $2.3 million in community support and private contributions.
• Continued its 93-year-old partnership with the United Way of Central Alabama and was awarded one of its four largest program allocations.
Gateway's tremendous results could not have happened without the strong leadership of Gateway's Board of Directors, the courageous work of its staff and the support of an incredibly generous community. The momentum gained from last year's tremendous success continues into the strategic plan's second year. Although the expectations we have set for ourselves are high, Alabama children and families deserve nothing less.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Gateway
Board of directorsas of 01/25/2023
Mr. James McCrary
Tom Thompson
Dawson Baptist Church
Keith Carter
Securities Capital Corporation
Denson Franklin
Vulcan Materials
Maeci Walker
Christie Strategy Group
Elizabeth Goodrich
The Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation
Bernard Lockhart
The Boutwell Auditorium
Khalilah Brown
Jefferson County Department of Health
James McCrary
James P. McCrary Philanthropic Counsel