Hannah

Graham, Washington

"When I came to Teen Challenge, I was filled with a lot of guilt. I felt like life had been torn away from me and I deserved to be dead. I blamed God, my family, and my friends. But in all honesty, I was the one to blame. I had caused my own problems and I had caused my own downfall.

Jill writes...

Teen Challenge has been a blessing to our family in our darkest moments. We are an average middle class family raising our kids in a Christian home and going to church every Sunday. We knew where our kids were at all times and were very involved in their lives. My daughter started hanging out with the wrong the "wrong crowd" her sophmore year; we didn't approve and gave her no freedom to see these kids outside of school. She was becoming more defiant, her grades dropped, she turned from God, basically our house became a war zone. It all came to a head the middle of the school year when I had her tested for drugs and she was positive—