Berrylin McGehee Houston

Ms. Houston has been an active volunteer and philanthropist in Jacksonville for many years, including Board leadership in Gateway’s early years. She went to Ward-Belmont College in Nashville, TN and the University of Florida. Previous community activities include: JCCI Board; UNF College of Health, Deans Council; Jacksonville Wolfson Children’s Hospital Board (President); JWN Board; HRS-District IV Alcohol and Drug Abuse & Mental Health Board (President); Florida State ADM Board President; Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church Deaconess; I.M. Sulzbacher (Board); TPC Village (Board President); Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women (1987-1993) and; Mountain Top Institute Board. Ms. Houston was an EVE Award recipient for Volunteer Service in 1986 and a Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Associate (FADAA) Citizen of the Year.

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Project Save Lives: A Hospital-Based Peer Overdose Intervention

Project Save Lives, a hospital bridge program, recognized for its incredible success in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Click the […]

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Time To Talk About It: Talkable Communities offers courses to spot youth mental health crises

Click here to read how Gateway and four other Behavioral Health Centers in Northeast Florida have created Talkable Communities, a way to “make mental […]

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As required by §286.25, Fla. State., if the Network Service Provider is a non-governmental organization which sponsors a program financed wholly or in part by state funds, including any funds obtained through this contract, it shall, in publicizing, advertising, or describing the sponsorship of the program state: “Sponsored by LSF Health Systems, and State of Florida, Department of Children and Families.”