GATEWAYS for Youth and Families has been shaping young lives, providing a community
safety net and transforming families since 1890.

                         

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Surviving childhood is no easier today than it was 100 years ago.  We provide a full spectrum of educational, recreational, counseling, social service and training opportunities.  Our unique experiential approach to teaching provides young people and their families the skills and resources needed to overcome the tough challenges of modern life. GATEWAYS staff is dedicated to maximizing limited resources and providing growth and guidance to otherwise unserved and underserved populations.

WHY are we building an EQUESTRIAN CENTER at GATEWAYS Jessie Dyslin Ranch?

 

GATEWAYS for Youth and Families is located in Pierce County, WA and serves the Community with the same pioneering spirit, innovation and common-sense solutions since 1890 when our Founding Mothers first incorporated the organization as the Children's Industrial Home and dedicated the organization to improving the lives of disadvantaged and ill-treated children.  We continue to operate as a private Child Placement Agency for foster children, but we've expanded our services beyond the hospital, school, gymnasium, nursery and dormitories built for the children at the Home on the Hill.

• Foster Care & Adoption   EVASE: Education, Visitation & Safe Exchange    "The Ranch" Teen Center

For Information on becoming a Foster Parent or licensed as a Foster-to-Adopt placement, the schedule of Current Classes being offered at the Ranch Teen Center, the Impact of Divorce on Children Seminars or Impact of Violence on Children Workshop, the STOPGAP family stabilization and jobs training program or any other programs offered at GATEWAYS for Youth and Families Please Click Here.

We added three new programs in 2007, the Early Childhood Learning Center, the Educational Equestrian Center and the Lakewood Evening Reporting Center.  In 2008, we will add the Children's Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the Wailers Musician Mentorship Foundation.  These programs center on expanding the hands-on therapeutic model developed at GATEWAYS to the larger Youth Development Community. 

Anybody can help.  Most of what we do is supported by volunteers.  Our members, volunteers & staff work together to provide the services to foster children, pre-school and school age children, court-involved youth, teenagers in transition and struggling parents.  

You can contribute TODAY and support GATEWAYS Programs with your time, talents, energy, ideas and money...

	If you wish to join as a member or volunteer, please contact us at GATEWAYS Headquarters at The Ranch at 253.383.4361 or download the form from the website.
	To assist with the community-wide programs, such as the annual Toy March & Holiday Help for Children & Families or National Night Out, please click on the photo of our wonderful volunteers from last year's party, members of the Ft. Lewis Triple Nickel! Donors provided gifts for 300 needy children & their families.
	If you wish to help with your time & talents at the Children's Center for the Arts or the Educational Equestrian Center, please click on the Ranch Expansion Logo and learn about our plans, including WHY we chose to begin building a new program at The Ranch.
	If you are interested in becoming a foster parent, a foster-to-adopt parent or sponsoring a foster child or foster family, please click on the photo of little Leah and her Daddy at the Happy Adoption Day celebration at the Ranch.

This page was last updated on 03/30/2008.