Mario Moore will go before the board on Sept.1, 2004: are there any programs or half way houses (http://www.adsrve.com/linkredirect.php?h=624,28902665,prisontalk.com,1) that can prepare for his re-entry. (24 yrs) time spent.

I reccomend Teen Challenge............ it's just called that, it really is for adults. The housing lasts for 13-15 months once they enter........ they are taught all about everything all over again. There is one in your/his area as well. Search the net for teen challenge, and then choose your state.

Hope that helps:)

I reccomend Teen Challenge............ it's just called that, it really is for adults. The housing lasts for 13-15 months once they enter........ they are taught all about everything all over again. There is one in your/his area as well. Search the net for teen challenge, and then choose your state.

Hope that helps:) Thank You :D

I reccomend Teen Challenge............ it's just called that, it really is for adults. The housing lasts for 13-15 months once they enter........ they are taught all about everything all over again. There is one in your/his area as well. Search the net for teen challenge, and then choose your state.

Hope that helps:)

I was just curious if this is the same Teen Challenge that began in Minneapolis and was started by Al Palmquist back in the 70's I think it was.

Anybody know?

Care9: Have you heard of the book titled "The cross and the switchblade"? :
(David Wilkerson, the founder of TC wrote the book, explaining how TC
came to be, and what it is all about today)

Teen Challenge History



Teen Challenge was started 46 years ago by David Wilkerson. It was Feb. 28, 1958 when the 26-year-old Pentecostal preacher from rural Pennsylvania disrupted a highly publicized murder trial in New York City. David Wilkerson had made the eight-hour drive from his quiet mountain village to downtown Manhattan for a simple reason: to speak to the seven accused gang members about their salvation. In a grave attempt to share the love of God, Wilkerson had rushed to the front of the courtroom at the close of trial proceedings and pleaded publicly with the judge for permission to meet the teenage defendants. News media were everywhere, and Wilkerson unwittingly made himself the source of headline news throughout New York City. The judge had been receiving death threats during the trial, and Wilkerson was almost arrested as a presumed assailant. The judge later refused Wilkerson's request to see the boys and ordered him never to return to his courtroom. Today the one-time rural preacher is known as the founder of a international drug rehabilitation program called Teen Challenge that has one of the highest success rates anywhere in the world. Since its first center opened in New York in 1960, Teen Challenge has grown to over 170 centers across the nation and 250 centers worldwide. In Puerto Rico the organization is building an AIDS hospital, the first of its kind. Wilkerson also founded a global evangelistic ministry, World Challenge. Yet the Pentecostal preacher remains today what he was 45 years ago-a man dedicated to preaching the gospel in the heart of New York City. He pastors Times Square Church in Manhattan, which he founded in 1987. Wilkerson made more than the news back in 1958; five months after his discouraging day in court, his compassion for teen-age gangs and drug addicts began to make history.

Hope that answers your question!! :)

Anyone looking for anymore info.....? www.teenchallenge.com (http://www.teenchallenge.com)

Thanks for the information. Come to think of it, yes of course I have heard of DW. I don't know which ministry I was thinking about that was started by Palmquist then. But I was just wondering about that. Thanks again!!