Bridgeway Behavioral Health, Inc. is a private, not-for-profit organization that was founded on February 14th, 1978 as Family Alcohol and Drug Counseling Services, Inc to serve clients in need of outpatient substance abuse treatment services. Soon after incorporation, the agency was contracted by the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ADA) to provide services which included substance abuse rehabilitation to women and their children living in the Eastern Missouri Region. In 1982 Bridgeway became a United Way member agency and in 1986 we opened a transitional housing facility in Winfield, MO which became the first Oxford House. At this time the agency also received its first contract from the Department of Public Safety to provide counseling services to battered women. The following year Bridgeway began its Residential Treatment Program for men. By 1997 the agency’s domestic violence programs expanded to Troy, MO and the following year the first battered women shelter opened in St. Charles County offering emergency and extended services to women in crisis.
