Gatehouse Academy

Gatehouse Academy is a long term residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility for young adults age 17-25 with locations in the USA (Wickenburg, Arizona and Saratoga Springs, NY) and Canada (Thunder Bay, Ontario).

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Residents learn life skills, attend therapy, continue formalized education, enhance physical well-being, and recover from the effects of alcoholism and drug abuse through focused 12 Step Recovery.

Gatehouse Academy was founded by Ted and Gayle Earl in 2000.

The Foundation of the program is in the 12 steps, work ethic, and horses. Many residents spend their first three months (the program lasts for at least 12 months) at the Hassaymapa River Ranch, located twenty miles outside of Wickenburg, AZ The facility, which is an active cattle ranch is meant to emphasize the first three steps. Residents maintain the landscape, feed the horses and cows, paint, do construction, and clean all of the property.

After three months, residents transition to the main preoperty in the heart of Wickenburg, AZ. They live in residential houses, cook their own meals every night, clean, do work ethic, ride horses, shop for themselves, and maintain an accountability for one another.