The common treatment method (by other rehabs, not Adult and Teen Challenge):• 30 to 90 days in an inpatient facility • Average cost: $7,000 / month • 28% success rate after 5 years from completing an inpatient facility
The Adult & Teen Challenge Solution: • 13 to 15 months in a voluntary residential program • Average cost: none • *70-86% success rate after 5 years from graduating a Teen Challenge program
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In 1958, a young pastor from a farm town in Pennsylvania took a step of faith into the inner-city of New York City. David Wilkerson started a movement that would change the lives of thousands. With a heart for young people, he began working with gangs and troubled youth.
As he began to establish rapport within the city, he became aware of the life-controlling issues destroying these young people. Everywhere David turned he saw the consequences of addiction: a 16 year old girl working the streets, a 12 year old boy murdered by his younger brother, the sight of a teenage mother with her baby on her lap, begging for food and shelter. The young pastor found himself in a place with no hope and no future: these children had been set up for failure. He knew he had to break the vicious cycle. He had to offer a way out of their trouble and despair.
Later that year, the first Teen Challenge Center was established in New York City working with inner-city youth wanting a life free of gangs and drugs. Since 1958, Teen Challenge has seen remarkable growth. Thousands of lives have been changed in over 200 centers throughout the United States. One thousand campuses are now operating in 90 countries.
In 1963, David Wilkerson co-authored the book, The Cross and the Switchblade. The story continues to inspire renewed faith in God’s ability to overcome problems that even the most determined human efforts cannot resolve. Teen Challenge came to Texas in 1968, with the opening of the San Antonio men’s campus, then called the Westwood Center.
Adult & Teen Challenge of Texas now operates 4 men’s programs (San Antonio, Magnolia, Azle, Brazos Valley), 2 women’s programs (Houston, San Antonio), and 2 re-entry programs (Houston, San Antonio), and an adolescent boys program near Austin called New Hope Christian Academy. Admitting over 350 students a year, the ministry continues to expand and offer hope to men and women with life-controlling addictions.
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San Antonio Adult and Teen Challenge Centers are long-term addiction treatment and recovery programs in San Antonio that are free or low cost, serving addicted or alcoholic women from San Antonio, TX.