Michael, Just came up on your site... Please be careful. All Teen Challenges are not the same and some do excellent work. The Teen Challenge that we have been at for 18 years does not allow their students to work. they have personal accounts for the students who get the "odd job" on the weekends, so that that they will have money if they need it. We also charge a small entry fee and then don't ask the student for any more money at all after that. (Of course, we do need money to run the program, so we do ask for donations from churches and individuals, but I don't think that is what you are talking about.)
I've seen so much good come out of Teen Challenge, I hate for the name itself to be slurred. Let's close down (or fix!) the bad ones and encourage the good!
