Benefits
The benefits of Teen Challenge’s long-term residential recovery program are many, beginning with how we identify those who participate. We do not call them clients or residents. We refer to them as students, because they learning a new way of living. Teen Challenge students are given the following opportunities as benefits when they enter our programs:
•They are able to separate themselves from the environment and relationships that have contributed to their life-controlling problems.
•They come to a controlled environment which helps them to avoid the substances and behaviors that have contributed to their self-destruction.
•They enter into a loving and supportive Christian community.
•They are mentored by others who have walked the same path to freedom and understand the process they are going through as they grow.
•They are positioned to confront the destructive thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that led to their life-controlling problems.
•Chapel services, Christian growth classes, church attendance, and Christian mentoring facilitate their spiritual journey to discover God’s truth for themselves.
•They are given the opportunity to cultivate the life practice of personal prayer and daily devotions.
•They participate in work programs designed to teach a positive work ethic, responsibility, and taking pride in a job-well-done, regardless of the tasks they are assigned to complete. Because many work programs generate funding for Teen Challenge programs, students are given the opportunity to contribute to their own recovery through their work, which gives them a sense of productivity and dignity.
