Proven Outcomes

Proven Outcomes

Gateway has Alabama's longest track record of positive outcomes for children, families and communities.


Long-Term Outcomes
  • Gateway has served generations of children and families since 1891.
  • Since 1997, Gateway has helped families pay back more than $70 million of debt.
  • Gateway exceeds national statistics in helping foster youth graduate from high school, get a job and transition into adulthood.
Since launching our strategic plan in January 2016
  • More than 140 foster youth got a job.
  • More than 80 foster youth enrolled in college.
  • More than 400 foster children are with forever families.
  • More than 500 families stayed together through in-home counseling.
  • Families paid back more than $2.4 million of debt.
  • More than 90 families kept their homes and avoided foreclosure.
In Just One Year
  • Families paid back $991,212 of debt
  • 131 families stayed together after intensive in-home counseling
  • 88 children returned to their families
  • A record-breaking 13 foster children were adopted
  • 98 families kept their homes and avoided foreclosure
  • 234 families avoided bankruptcy
  • 41 teens in foster care got a job and are learning to become independent adults