Nov 19, 2020 | General, Life Skills, Programs, Recovery, Success Stories
Kristi knows how debilitating addiction can be. “Living with addiction is like living a walking death,” she said. Kristi Martarano BS, CADC, CCPG, is Clinical Director at The GateHouse. Like many of her colleagues, she was also once a client at The GateHouse working...
Nov 12, 2020 | General, Life Skills, Programs, Recovery, Success Stories
Kendrick spent years living in a vicious cycle of addiction. “I’d use and lose everything,” he said. “Then, I’d get my life back on track for a few months only to lose it all again.” Today, Kendrick Westmoreland is the Clinical Director of Outpatient Services at The...
Nov 6, 2020 | General, Programs, Recovery, Success Stories
Cyndi was 18 years into her recovery journey when she relapsed. She had a beautiful home, a teenage son and had built a wonderful life for herself. “Your addiction is always doing push-ups, even when you’re not using,” she said. Today, Cyndi is our Intake Supervisor...
Oct 19, 2020 | General, Life Skills, Programs, Recovery
“At The GateHouse, we’re treating the whole person, and that means helping them gain access to all of the resources they need to maintain recovery.” – Kendrick Westmoreland When a client leaves one of our Residential Extended Care facilities...
Oct 8, 2020 | General, Life Skills, Programs, Recovery
“We see a family’s eyes open when they realize what their loved one is going through and that they can have an impact in their recovery.” – Verlina Velazquez-Millings Verlina Velazquez-Millings, Director of Programs at The GateHouse, has been in the...
Sep 4, 2020 | General, Life Skills, Programs, Recovery
A Centralized Intake Process Lets Us Provide Faster Addiction Recovery Support to Our Clients in Need Every client we work with has a unique set of needs that requires a personalized recovery plan. For many, this means continued support beyond one of our...
Aug 5, 2020 | General, Programs, Recovery
When a client arrives at The GateHouse and enters our residential treatment center, they instantly become a part of a community of advocates who want nothing more than to see them succeed. Our clients receive an incredible amount of support from our staff members and...
Jul 30, 2020 | General, Life Skills, Programs, Recovery
Long-term recovery from substance use disorder is deeply intertwined with sustained employment. Substance use disorder is a disease that slowly erodes a person’s ability to go to work every day, hold a job, and become financially independent. Substance abuse...
Jul 14, 2020 | General, Interviews, Programs
The state of Pennsylvania, along with the entire country, is actively and very visibly fighting the COVID-19 pandemic on a variety of fronts—medically, politically, and economically. While the effects of the coronavirus have consumed the news cycle and are...
Jun 11, 2020 | General, Press Releases
The GateHouse stands with the Black Lives Matter movement and is committed to creating an environment of diversity, inclusion, and equality within our residences and workplaces and also within the community at large. As an organization that provides long-term...
