About Gateway House – Fort Smith
Gateway House Gateway Recovery Center is a residential treatment home just for women who live in Fort Smith Arizona. This historic city on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border is known for its military history and Wild West heritage.
The program uses a residential model to provide a safe and structured environment where they offer treatment for the whole person and not just a constellation of symptoms. The women’s treatment program offers evidence based practices and person centered treatment. They blend treatment with a traditional 12 step recovery model, including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational enhancement therapy alongside other adjunctive therapies, and holistic approaches like mindfulness and hypnotherapy.
Your program is customized to meet your specific needs using a well-trained clinical staff with experience in compulsive and self-destructive behaviors. The program’s goal is to help you repair and restore your life so you can return to a creative and productive independent living situation.
The staff are also well trained in treating dual diagnosis. This condition occurs when you have a substance use disorder or addiction with a co-occurring mental health condition like depression, anxiety, or self-harm. This situation makes treatments more complex since mental health conditions and substance use disorders must be treated simultaneously to be effective.
The program also provides a transitional living environment to help in relapse prevention recognizing that returning to your old environment may prove detrimental to your long-term recovery. The on site staff provides round the clock care, security and video surveillance.
You are expected to be employed or in school, and special arrangements can be made for clients who are physically disabled. This transitional housing environment is an extension of treatment that offers individualized care, outpatient services, and access to counselors at critical stages of your rehabilitation.
They provide a specialized Women’s Services Program that lasts for 60 to 75 days. It expands the residential treatment to meet the needs of women who are pregnant or with young children. Mothers and mothers to be often have special needs to learn and care for their children while dealing with feelings of shame or anger associated with substance use disorders or mental health conditions.
Your program provides a holistic approach to treatment with a focus on the future and recovery for yourself and your child. The program includes individual and group therapy, medical treatment, transportation, housing assistance, and educational and job skills training.
The program is funded by the United Way and accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities or CARF. They are a non-profit organization and accept donations to help fund the treatment of those who are suffering from addiction.
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