Gateway Community Services

Gateway Community Services is a non-profit agency established in 1970 to serve families and teens in the Lansing area. We offer many services, including shelter, counseling, job and education assistance, and family reunification, among many others. Additionally, we operate a 24 hour crisis line for teens:
Teen Crisis Hotline
1-877-833-3689
You can call this number at any time and a counselor will always be available to talk. Click here for more information about our organization and the programs we operate.
Attend our Weekly Information Meeting!

Each week Gateway holds informational meetings about our programs. For many of the programs, this is the first step in the intake process. The meetings are run by our Intake Coordinator and are held every Monday afternoon at 4:00 pm at our administrative office (directions).

At the meeting, you will be free to ask any questions you have about Gateway and our programs, and also begin the intake process if you desire. No advance sign-up is required and as always there is no fee. All you have to do is show up!

If you have any questions about the information meetings or anything else about Gateway, please feel free to call us at (517) 351-4000.
Higher Ground is a service for at-risk and runaway youth with the ultimate goal of family reunification. The Higher Ground Program strives to help youth and their families learn healthy ways to cope while working to resolve conflicts. The program's services include:

       ~Counseling for individuals and families
       ~Emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth
       ~Counselor on call 24 hours for crisis intervention
       ~Community referrals

Higher Ground's goal is to support youth as they continue to develop the healthy coping skills needed to build a strong personal foundation. Additionally, the Higher Ground Program assists families in crisis, working toward family healing and reunification whenever possible. For more information about Higher Ground, click here.

Crossroads is a voluntary transitional living program for young people who are unable to live at home. Youth live in the Kevin J. Moody Youth Home, a 24-hour supervised group home. The goal of the program is to help youth prepare for independent and self-sufficient living. Services offered during the program include:

~Shelter
~Independent Living Skills Instruction
~Counseling & Case Management
~Employment Assistance
~Tutoring
~Health Care

After graduating from Crossroads, participants have access to a variety of services including advocacy, employment and educational assistance, case management, crisis intervention, rental assistance, and emotional support and guidance. For more information about the Crossroads program, please click here.

Violence Intervention & Prevention Project is a program to promote peaceful, thoughtful, and non-aggressive means by which young people can learn to channel and communicate anger and frustration. The Violence Intervention and Prevention Project (VIPP) uses many different methods to achieve these goals, including:

~Aggression Replacement Training
~Skillstreaming
~Anger-Control Training
~Moral Reasoning Training
~Art Therapy

For more information about these techniques and about the VIPP as a whole, please click here.

Youth Workforce Development Program is a program designed to provide educational planning and employment support to low income youths. Run in conjunction with Capital Area Michigan Works!, this program offers many services, including:

~Tutoring in Reading & Writing
~Help with Resume Building
~Guidance in Mastering the Interview Process
~Assistance with Conducting a Job Search

The Youth Workforce Development Program (YWDP) also assists youth in finding jobs and internships with local area businesses. Informational meetings are held at 4pm every Thursday at Capital Area Michigan Works! and for more information please click here.

Street Outreach is a program designed to find homeless youth on the streets and bring our services to them. The Street Outreach team traverses the tri-county area each week, bringing along Gateway brochures and information packets, as well as more tangible goods like blankets, clothes, food, etc.

The Street Outreach team has also partnered with local businesses to create Project SafeZone. Anywhere that you see the SafeZone logo is a safe place to stay and wait for help. SafeZone locations will also be provided with Gateway materials to help educate the community about our programs.

The goal of the Street Outreach Program is to bring our services to youth in the places in which they are confortable. If you are in a crisis and need help, you can call our 24 Hour Teen Crisis Hotline (1-877-833-3689) and someone will always be there to answer the phone and get you help.

For more information about the Street Outreach Program, please click here.