CORRECTIONS-BASED PROGRAMS

Gateway operates nearly 25 corrections-based programs and provides Treatment to over 15,000 men, women, adolescents and dually diagnosed substance abusers every year. Gateway treatment sites utilize Therapeutic Community (TC) paradigms, and are supplemented by Cognitive Self-Change methods. Programs range in size from 60 beds to 632 beds. At any one time Gateway has more than 6,000 people in corrections based programs.

In addition to providing substance abuse treatment services to individuals while they are incarcerated, Gateway assists individuals in gaining access to a full spectrum of services upon their release. Outcome studies have repeatedly demonstrated that a continuum of care after release results in far better results (lower recidivism) than in-prison treatment alone.

In 2003, the State of Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council released a new outcome study showing reduced recidivism rates for inmates completing in-prison treatment, transitional residential care and outpatient aftercare. The survey showed a recidivism rate of 5% after two years compared with a national average of 52%. Gateway was the treatment provider for 75% of the sample research group.