Through The Gate

811 Whitlock Ave, Crawfordsville, IN 47933

5.0 (22 reviews)

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Through The Gate is a Christ-centered inpatient rehab for women in Indiana offering holistic programs to help overcome life-controlling issues like alcoholism, drug use, homelessness, trauma, re-entry after incarceration, and mental health challenges.
Founded in 2014 by Pastor Steve Covington after volunteering in a women's prison, the organization provides a safe and supportive environment for women to break free from destructive patterns and embrace their God-given identities, leading healthy and fulfilling lives through a comprehensive recovery program that integrates biblical, emotional, and practical support.
Almost everyone on staff is a graduate of the program, bringing firsthand experience to equip women with skills for spiritual clarity, joyful sobriety, and purpose.
The 8-month faith-based approach focuses on mental, emotional, and spiritual healing, combining life skills classes on identity, mental health, relationships, goal setting, domestic skills, job training, servanthood, and acquiring assets like licenses and healthcare; peer counseling; mentorship after 90 days; and a supportive community with weekly church attendance.
Services include necessities like food, clothing, and shelter; transportation; and slow reintegration, with an option for transitional housing for eligible graduates.
One-third of participants come from out of state, drawn to this trusted faith-based rehab, where 78% of graduates do not return to former ways of living.

What we treat

Treatment & Programs

Levels of Care

Through The Gate offers a deeply structured eight-month inpatient residential program designed to give women the intensive time they need to rebuild their lives. Following graduation, eligible residents can step down into transitional sober living housing, which allows them to stay as long as they need while they solidify their ongoing recovery.

Inpatient (Residential) Sober Living

Therapies

Therapy here is tightly woven into their Foundations curriculum, heavily emphasizing psychoeducation and life skills classes rather than just traditional clinical modalities. Before being paired with a mentor at the 90-day mark, residents engage in weekly peer counseling sessions and complete robust faith-based studies, including Mary Kassian's "Girls Gone Wise."

Individual Therapy Group Therapy Psychoeducation

Addictions

While this Christ-centered home helps women find freedom from severe alcoholism and drug addiction, they explicitly note that a substance use disorder is not required to be admitted. The program is built for any woman seeking to overcome life-controlling issues, though those needing medical detox must complete it prior to arrival as only over-the-counter relief is provided on campus.

Alcohol Use Disorder

Conditions

The ministry frequently supports women battling underlying mental health challenges like clinical depression, severe anxiety, and deep-seated trauma. Rather than relying on psychiatric interventions—narcotics and habit-forming medications are strictly prohibited—staff members rely on intensive spiritual and emotional healing to resolve inner turmoil.

Trauma Disorders

Issues

Founded by a pastor after volunteering in a women's prison, this ministry is uniquely equipped to help individuals navigating re-entry after incarceration. Beyond substance use, the curriculum proactively addresses complex life hurdles like chronic homelessness, domestic trauma, and the practical challenges of rebuilding a stable independent adulthood.

Homelessness/Housing Insecurity Criminal Justice Issues

Programs

The entire eight-month journey operates as an immersive, Christian faith-based women's program rooted entirely in the teachings of Jesus. Uniquely, the program begins with a mandatory 90-day blackout phase without cell phones or outside visits, allowing residents to strip away external distractions and focus purely on holistic healing.

Christian Faith-Based Holistic/Integrative

On-site

Amenities

The restorative environment in Crawfordsville is structured and communal, prioritizing basic necessities like stable shelter, warm beds, and nutritious food. It operates as a completely tobacco-free campus where residents contribute to the household through daily chores, with transportation provided by the ministry for all essential community appointments.

Transportation/Shuttle

Coverage

Payment

Financial accessibility is a core mission value, keeping the eight-month program incredibly affordable with a flat $200 intake fee and a low monthly self-pay rate. They do not accept commercial insurance or Recovery Works, but they strongly encourage women to apply regardless of their financial situation, noting that they will work with families to make care possible.

Please contact the facility directly to verify insurance coverage and payment options. Many facilities offer free insurance verification.

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Eligibility

Who We Serve

Through The Gate is built exclusively for adult women whose lives have been derailed by destructive patterns, severe trauma, or the criminal justice system. The Indiana home has built such a strong reputation for life transformation that one-third of their participants travel from out of state just to enroll in the deeply supportive community.

Age Groups

Adults (26-64)

Genders Accepted

Women

Additional Services

Reintegration is intentionally slow and highly practical, anchored by vocational training where residents learn honorable work ethics through commercial cleaning and kitchen shifts. The facility wraps extensive spiritual and peer support around each woman, guiding her through the process of securing health care, legal identification, and long-term employment.

Life Skills TrainingTransportation ServicesVocational TrainingPeer SupportSpiritual Support

About

Facility Info

Located in Crawfordsville, Indiana, this nonprofit, faith-based organization operates with a profound level of empathy and shared experience. Remarkably, nearly everyone on the current staff is a graduate of the program themselves, fostering an environment of genuine understanding and living proof that the model works.

Credentials

Accreditations

Through The Gate is a recognized part of The Addiction Connection, an international network of gospel-centered recovery ministries. While they operate using biblical standards rather than traditional medical accreditations, they carefully track an impressive internal outcome metric: 78 percent of their graduates do not return to their former ways of living.

Through The Gate