About Our Residential & Therapeutic Program
Teen Challenge Singapore is a Christian Therapeutic Community working with adult males who are primarily drug abusers and ex-offenders.
At Teen Challenge, we offer a faith based residential rehabilitation program designed to help our clients overcome their maladaptive behaviors and to help them develop their God-given potentials and talents inherent in each person.
The aim of the program is to help them to achieve complete abstinence and live an emotionally, psychologically, spiritually rich and meaningful life through spiritual growth and skills training. The objective is to help clients be self-empowered through learning new life skills that will facilitate their re-integration back to society and family so as to minimize their chances of relapse to drug abuse and crime.
Our mission is to help these individuals find sobriety, spirituality and employability and arrive at a point of wholesome self-esteem and self-worth centred in the love of God.
Our DARE Center spans about 2 Hectare of land in the vicinity of Old Chua Chu Road. This is filled with facilities that are meant to assist beneficiaries to recover to wholeness before reintegration into society.
About Our Facilities
Drug & Alcohol Recovery Centre (DARE Centre) is a Christian halfway house and residential care centre for male adults who need help in overcoming substance and behavioural addictions. It is a therapeutic environment which provides holistic programme for residents to work through their various life-controlling problems.
Emphasis is focused on spiritual development through prayers, the reading and studying of Scriptures. In addition, work therapy takes place on a regular basis to inculcate positive work attitude. Residents are assigned various responsibilities and tasks to equip them with the necessary life skills for their reintegration into the community. Those eligible for work phase have the opportunity to develop carpentry skills in the refurbishing of antique furniture in TC Woodworks or TC Movers through our Social Enterprises.
Admission
Admission to DARE Centre is through mandated prison programme for drug addications, walk in or referrals for alcohol addications.
Referrals can be made through counsellors, social workers, churches, the Community Court or family members of individual who require residential intervention and a highly structured rehabilitative programme. A minimum stay of 12 months is required for referrals and walk-in clients.
Curriculum
Throughout their residency, transformation is brought about through the following Curriculum:
• Positive Lifestyle and Critical Coping Skills
• Anger Management
• Understanding Substances and Behavioural Addictions
• 3. S.T.E.P.S. (Solutions To Every Problem Sober)
• S.O.U.L. Programme
• 3 Ps on Power, Praise and Prayer
• Bible Study & Weekly Chapel Services