David Gates saved our nephew’s life. He was last seen on the streets of Seattle a few years ago, and nobody in our family had spoken to him in quite a while. We were referred to David Gates by another interventionist Kristina Wandzilak that had been working with our family for a couple of years trying to intervene on our Nephew. It was an impossible situation. You can’t intervene on somebody and get them the right type of help, if they are lost to the streets or can’t be found. Once we spoke with David, he was so reassuring that our nephew could be found. David traveled to Seattle, and he contacted local homeless shelters and scoured through various ‘tent cities’ and he found out that some homeless people got hotel vouchers. David waited for a day and a half outside a hotel for the homeless where he thought our nephew was staying. After three years of wandering through the streets of Seattle, David was not only able to locate him but he spent 6 hours talking him into boarding a plane to go to Northbound Treatment Center in Orange County, California. While our nephew was at Northbound, David was his advocate, doing whatever it took to get him the right care. We’re lucky to have found someone like David who is willing to do the tough work and make the impossible happen, to help people like our nephew get off the street and off drugs so that they can have a chance at a new life. We are grateful to David and the entire Northbound team for being there for our nephew and for our family when it looked hopeless.