Gateway Group of Asheville
Personal, Professional & Quality Service
Empowering Fathers and Mothers & Strengthening Families
By building healthy family relationships and helping parents to improve their impact on the lives of their children, in order to build stronger families and communities.
Ronald & Shelly Gates
Ronald Gates is the director and co-owner of the Gateway Group of Asheville. He is also the Senior Pastor and co-founder of Greater Works Church which was established in 2007. He is an ordained elder in the Church of God in Christ and has a BA in Religious Studies. Along with being a Certified Recovery Coach, he is a Certified Pastoral Counselor and a Certified Gang Free Academy Facilitator. He has also completed training on Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) and as a North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialist.
Shelly M. Gates Shelly Gates is the co-owner of the Gateway Group of Asheville and co-founder of Greater Works Church which was established in 2007. She is a graduate of Auburn University Montgomery with a BS in Business Administration. She is Certified Government Financial Manager (retired); and a Certified Executive Coach and a Certified Life and Wellness Coach.
Ronald Gates: (828) 279-3312
Shelly Gates: (828) 279-6046
Gateway Group of Asheville is working in collaboration
with the following agency.
Buncombe County Health and Human Services
Buncombe County Sheriff Department
Buncombe Child Support Services
Pre-Trial Services
Judicial Court System
Greater Works Church of God in Christ
Fatherhood Initiative
The Gateway Group of Asheville Fatherhood Program is designed to help fathers be involved, responsible, and committed to their children and families through either improving and/or developing skills and knowledge in parenting, self-awareness, self-care and communications. The goal is to build healthy family relationships, improving father-child engagement and increasing the economic capacity of participants.
The program is modeled after the National Fatherhood Initiative evidence-based program and curriculum which has the objective of equipping fathers to be intentionally and proactively engaged in their children’s lives.
Motherhood Initiative
The program goal is to assist mothers to be more knowledgeable, aware, confident, and skillful at engaging in parenting, co-parenting and other relationships for the benefit of their children and the health of their family. The goal is to build healthy family relationships, improving mother-child engagement and increasing the economic capacity of participants.
Gang Free Academy
Gangfree.org was developed by the Gang Alternatives Program (GAP), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides services and programs to promote a gangfree lifestyle to young people and their families. The Gangfree Mission is to eliminate the base of gang membership by having a generation of young people say, “no” to gangs and “yes” to positive lifestyle choices.
Recovery Coaching
Recovery coaching to reflect a collaborative and strengths-based approach in helping individuals achieve sustained recovery from addictions. The focus is on coaching individuals to create and sustain a life free of addiction.
All programs are customized to fit the needs of the individual.
Coaching to support individuals to live addiction free from:
Drugs (Opioids, Cocaine, etc.); Alcohol; Tobacco
Sexual Addiction (Pornography); and Gambling
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