Gateway Support Services, Inc.

Gateway Support Services, Inc. Therapeutic Independent Living Housing program is for individuals that have been diagnosed with a mental health disability described in the DSM-5 manual with low to moderate behaviors.

Residents that reside within Gateway Support Services Therapeutic Independent Living Home have backgrounds where they have experienced significant trauma in a foster care setting and or natural setting were supports have neglected and abused them.

Gateway Support Services Therapeutic Independent living home offers the young adult the time needed to heal, gain needed assistance/services, and learn life skills to erase their past traumatic experiences and write the future they desire to have. Our staff educate and train each young adult to become self-sufficient, being able to reach beyond barriers their past life as placed upon them. Gateway’s staff offers continuous encouragement to the young adult in a effort to assist them with realizing they have purpose in life and to recognize what they have to offer themselves and society.

Young adults are linked to needed services such as therapeutic mentoring, individual therapy, psychiatric evaluation, and targeted case management. They also receive assistance with medication management, medical and dental care, continuing education, life skills and employment skills.

PROGRAM DEMOGRAPHICS

Female & Male Young adults who are homeless or ageing out of foster care.
Young Adults who failed to meet the Agency for Person with Disability guidelines.
Young Adults that need personal care, bathing, dressing, grooming, and eating, etc.
Pregnant Females and Mothers with one child.
Victims of Sex Trafficking

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR FOUNDER

Gateway Support Services, Inc. was founded in October of 2014 by Tameka O’Neal currently known as Tameka Pontiflet. Tameka founded Gateway Support Services to persue her dream of helping people who have been abused as a child and or adult and those who suffer from mental illness.

Tameka is a married African American female, mother of five children and three grandchildren. Tameka escaped and survived a gruesome past life that presented more pain and abuse that no one should have to endure. As a child and during the first twelve years of her adult life she was abused sexually, beaten and mentally abused by those in her immediate environment.

She knows first hand what its like to be neglected and abused by those individuals that should have loved and taken care of her. Because of her past she’s able to directly relate and sympathize with those whom have been treated unfairly, rapped, beaten and homeless.

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Tameka survived her past and went on to write her future, she currently holds a Bachelors degree in Criminal Justice, She’s certified as a Florida Law Enforcement Officer and she’s a Certified Behavioral Case Manager certified through the Florida Certification Board. Tameka is a new author, writing her first book an autobiography of her abusive past identified as Fight To Live.

She continues to peruse her dreams and wants those who have experienced abuse to know “Your Life Belongs to You. Let No One and Nothing Stand in Your Way of Living. You Lived Through the Abuse, Pain, Raising Abusive Thoughts continuously reminding you of your past. NOW TODAY LIVE FOR YOU, YOUR WAY! Erase Your Past by Writing Your Future”.

Tameka’s mission is to help those who have been abused, those who have mental health diagnosis to know that they are someone and that they matter. She needs them to know that their life as meaning and purpose and she’s here to help them with their life providing the bridge to cross over from pain to a healthy life of LIVING, helping to write the life you desire.

Tameka’s living proof that life goes on after an abusive past.