The Teen Challenge Graham Women's Center is a non-profit faith-based program for women who are 18 years or older, whose lives are being destroyed by life-controlling problems. It may be drugs, alcohol, gang activity, destructive behavior or other negative life styles.
Teen Challenge is an international Christian program with a 50-year history of providing assistance, supporting, and challenging people to make the right choices by turning away from their destructive life styles.
Teen Challenge does not receive federal or state funding, but is locally supported and entirely dependent upon free will gifts, contributions, our work programs, fundraisers, and Teen Challenge Thrift Store sales.
Letter from our Director
Greetings in Jesus name! What a blessing it is to serve God in Teen Challenge Ministry. Great things are happening all through the Pacific Northwest Region. TC remains the most successful rehabilitation program of its type.
The reality is that Teen Challenge is the most successful and least costly program for those with life-controlling problems in our nation. Allow me to share a few statistics:
- The average cost of housing a student for a year in TC is $1,500 per month. Government programs are short term, usually less than 90 days. The cost ranges from $6,000 to $15,000 per month. I'm sure this accounts for a great part of our massive health care insurance problem in America.
- TC is a 12 -14 month long program and there are no direct charges for residential care to the students. The student body is supported by donations, gifts, family sponsorships, friends and churches. TC does not inflate national health care costs.
- Worldwide the illegal drug industry is a 400 billion dollar market, second only to the arms industry. Believe it or not the illegal drug market is a larger market than the oil industry.
- Today in America there are 13 million drug users, as many people as live in the states of Washington and Oregon combined.
- Our prison population houses 1.7 million prisoners incarcerated for drug use. It cost an average of $35,000 per year, per person.
- America has over 4 million crack users walking our streets.
- America has 6% of the world's population. America traffics 60% of the world's illegal drugs.
- Since 1992 America's drug abuse problem has doubled.
Are we overwhelmed? Yes, sometimes we are. But then we realize that God has called us to work with young women one soul at a time. With your help, we will succeed.
Friends, it is very evident to me that Teen Challenge International Pacific Northwest Women's Centers are a much needed outreach in America. Government programs call us, they ask can you accept a Mary or a Susie or an Ann... a lady who has failed 3 or 4 times in treatment. They come in. God works a miracle. One more life is saved and set free. One by one, we have helped hundred's of young ladies in our Pacific Northwest Centers. I hope that you can see that we are addressing our nation's drug epidemic.
Saving Lives in America!
Brother Bob Stone
Executive Director