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About the Facility
Teen Challenge Training Center is a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center offering inpatient and outpatient programs for adults and adolescents in Rehrersburg, Pennsylvania. They provide mental health resources, psychiatric services, training, and aftercare.
As a nonprofit organization, Teen Challenge Training Center has been providing addiction care since 1962. Their faith based program provides a full continuum of addiction treatment for men, women, and adolescents. includes the following services: mental health assessments, dual diagnosis treatment, intensive outpatient programming, inpatient treatment, medically assisted detox, crisis management, counseling, behavior modification, family discharge planning, medication management, and supportive medical care.
The detox services at Teen Challenge Training Center assist individuals with severe addiction comfortably detoxify and remove the substances from their bodies while prioritizing safety and comfort. Patients are medically supervised and may receive medication to support the process and are referred to aftercare support, such as residential treatment, following completion of treatment.
Offering multiple levels of counseling, the Teen Challenge program provides a faith based approach to unlearning self destructive behaviors and recommitting to a relationship with a higher power. Other activities include scheduled recreational activities, family programming, counseling, aftercare planning, chapel time, outdoor activities, and spiritual guidance and mentorship.
Teen Challenge Training Center residential programs offer structured drug and alcohol addiction treatment for short and long-term. The short term program lasts for 30 days and is an intensive program that helps to uncover the underlying causes of addiction. The long term program offers support and guidance over a longer period of time and more comprehensive activities, such as ongoing counseling, spiritual guidance, ministry opportunities, individual and group sessions, and family support.
Before completing treatment, each individual meets with their care team and family to determine a comprehensive aftercare and relapse prevention plan. That may include attending outpatient support groups, and regular progress meetings with their treatment counselors and/or pastor.
Teen Challenge Training Center offers a variety of payment options, including self pay, and private insurance.
Accreditations
CARF
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is a non-profit organization that specifically accredits rehab organizations. Founded in 1966, CARF's, mission is to help service providers like rehab facilities maintain high standards of care.
CARF Accreditation: Yes
Accreditation Number: 273972
SAMHSA
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1992 by congress, SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on American's communities.
SAMHSA Listed: Yes
State License
State Licenses are permits issued by government agencies that allow rehab organizations to conduct business legally within a certain geographical area. Typically, the kind of program a rehab facility offers, along with its physical location, determines which licenses are required to operate legally.
State License: Pennsylvania
License Number: D5246601
Treatment
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is a syndrome of dependent alcohol use. Also called alcohol use disorder (AUD), the symptoms include craving alcohol, not being able to stop drinking, and feeling anxious or irritable when not drinking. For many people, alcohol rehab in Pennsylvania is a beneficial treatment. Programs offer many levels of care, including medical and behavioral therapies.
Drug Addiction
Drug rehab in Pennsylvania is devoted to the treatment of addiction. Levels of care, treatment methods, and settings differ, but the aim of each program is to end drug dependency and empower participants to achieve long-term recovery.
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
In Pennsylvania, dual-diagnosis rehabs specialize in providing comprehensive care for individuals facing both mental health and substance abuse challenges. These facilities offer personalized treatment plans, integrating evidence-based therapies such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and experiential therapy. Other recovery services, like 12-Step meetings, skills training, educational groups, and an aftercare plan will enhance your odds of long-term recovery.
Opioid Addiction
Opioid rehabs specialize in supporting those recovering from opioid addiction. They treat those suffering from addiction to illegal opioids like heroin, as well as prescription drugs like oxycodone. These centers typically combine both physical as well as mental and emotional support to help stop addiction. Physical support often includes medical detox and subsequent medical support (including medication), and mental support includes in-depth therapy to address the underlying causes of addiction.
Insurance and Financial
Private insurance 
Self-pay options 
Medicaid 
Financial aid 
Monthly: $12,000 
Sliding scale payment assistance
Programs
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Young adult program
Levels of Care
Inpatient
Their short term program is a state license drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. Those that are in their short term program can expect a clinically based program with multiple group sessions daily and individual counseling sessions 1 to 2 times per week, this also includes family therapy. With over 50 years of successful operation the long term faith-based program contines it’s tradition of bringing wholeness to the hopeless. An adapted version of the 12-step program is complemented by Bible study, and community service.
Medically Assisted Detox
A medical detox is the safest way to wean your body off drugs and/or alcohol in an inpatient setting. When detoxing from addictive substances, the physical and psychological side effects of withdrawal can cause mood swings, anxiety, nausea, or flu-like symptoms. In medically assisted detox, a team of medical professionals are on hand 24/7 to help alleviate potential withdrawal symptoms, administer medications to alleviate withdrawal symptoms, and ultimately keep you safe and comfortable throughout this process.
12-Step
12 step programs prioritize the recovery journey as a life-long process based on personal spiritual growth and ongoing peer support. Regular attendance at 12 step meetings, which are held multiple times each day in most communities, is expected. Participants also receive one-on-one mentoring by a self-selected peer sponsor. The 12 steps are designed to encourage participants’ self-compassion, awareness, acceptance, and accountability. Dedicated programs for specialized groups, including seniors, teens, and families, are common.
Aftercare Support
Completing a drug or alcohol rehab program shouldn't spell the end of substance abuse treatment. Aftercare involves making a sustainable plan for recovery, including ongoing support. This can include sober living arrangements like halfway houses, career counseling, and setting a patient up with community programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA).
Clinical Services
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.
Family Therapy
The student and family enrichment department is designed to develop partnerships that promote successful recovery for their students and healthy lives for their families. You are not the cause of your loved ones addiction, you cannot control it and you cannot cure it but you can be empowered by support, education and communication.
Group Therapy
Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.
Individual Therapy
In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.
Life Skills
Life skills trainings involve all the skills a person must have in order to function successfully in the world. These include time management, career guidance, money management, and effective communication. Truly successful addiction recovery is based on the ability to not only live substance-free, but to thrive. Life skills teaches the practical necessities of functioning in society, which sets clients up for success in life, and therefore sobriety.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a clinical approach to helping people with substance abuse issues and other conditions shift behavior in positive ways. It is more goal-oriented than traditional psychotherapy, as MI counselors directly attempt to get clients to consider making behavioral change (rather than wait for them to come to conclusions themselves). Its primary purpose is to resolve ambivalence and help clients become able to make healthy choices freely.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) is a way of getting nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking. It uses products that supply low doses of nicotine to help people stop smoking. The goal of therapy is to cut down on cravings for nicotine and ease the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.
Settings and Amenities
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Day school
Contact
33 Teen Challenge Road
Rehrersburg PA, 19550
Fact checked and written by:
Michelle Tavares, MSN, RN
Edited by:
Quentin Blount
