Alcohol & Drug Recovery Fund in the USA


Part of a national Christian program founded in 1958 Providing assistance in Southern California with life-controlling problems since 1963 Offering a one-year residential treatment program Providing a network of services throughout Southern California that range from immediate crisis counseling to long-term drug rehabilitation. Providing a range of services and a variety of holistic approaches to substance abuse prevention and treatment.

	Benedict Castle houses Teen Challenge of Riverside’s residential program. In 1981, the final Castle payment was made on schedule allowing Teen Challenge to devote its financial resources to expanding programs that reach young men and women.
Conventional wisdom suggests there are but two ways to rehabilitate an addict…either change his external environment or change his outlook on that environment. While traditional rehabilitation programs depend on the former, Teen Challenge achieves its results by focusing on the latter. That focus pays big dividends in its results, as documented by HEW’s National Institute on Drug Abuse. They discovered through a carefully monitored survey that 86% of Teen Challenge graduates were drug-free even 7 years after completing the program! Compare that to traditional programs like the federal drug-rehabilitation center in Lexington, Kentucky which closed its doors because its cure rate was a meager 4%. The highest cure rates achieved by most of the psycho-sociological clinics hardly tops 15%.	*Programs for Youth* Drug Prevention Education Juvenile Hall Outreaches Adolescent Support Groups Biblical Centered Counseling Gang Prevention & Intervention *Programs for Adults* Residential Program Jail Outreaches Adult Support Groups Ministry Training Institute
Teen Challenge’s unprecedented results originate in its mission and purpose—winning men and women to the Lord and discipling them to follow Him. This is regularly accomplished in a variety of ways at Teen Challenge facilities.

	School Presentation teams visit kindergartens and high schools, putting on shows for the kids. For the younger ones, there is a puppet show, and for the older ones, skits that are both fun and informative are acted out. The message in the skits is an anti-drug theme or “school is cool”. Between skits members of the team give personal testimonies of their past life of drug abuse and how God has given them a chance at a new life.

Every week, a team of Teen Challenge students and staff members visits Juvenile Hall in Riverside. By reaching out, our students believe that they will give these teens the hope they need to know that they are capable of making similiar changes in their own lives. Over the years we have found our message of hope to be something that these teens need to hear. They are desperate to know that there is a life worth living for them once they leave Juvenile Hall. They need to know that there is something other than the gangster lifestyle waiting for them in the outside world.

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The one-year residential program contains program activities catered to physical, emotional and spiritual wholeness of the individual as well as programs designed to encourage self-sufficiency.

Teen Challenge offers vocational training, counseling, support groups, classes for basic computer skills and specific curriculum designed to promote leadership, self-esteem, anger management and healthy decision making.