(502) 561-2131 PO Box 14192 Louisville, KY 40214
Teen Challenge exists to provide youth, adults and families with an effective and comprehensive Christian faith-based solution to life-controlling drug and alcohol problems in order to become productive members of society. Teen Challenge endeavors to help people become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well, and spiritually alive.
Women's Program
Louisville, KY
Men's Program
Manchester, KY
Teen Challenge was founded by Rev. David Wilkerson in 1958 and gained international recognition through his first book The Cross and the Switchblade. Since this time, Teen Challenge has grown substantially with 180 centers throughout the United States, as well as 300 centers in over 40 other countries. In 1997, Clayton and Beth Arp, who have served in Teen Challenge since 1978, became Executive Directors of Teen Challenge of Kentucky. For their first several years in Kentucky, Clayton and Beth focused on reaching out to men, women and youth in jails and detention centers, and facilitating Living Free Seminars to teach churches and community groups how to combat the drug epidemic in their neighborhoods. In July 2003, the ministry of Teen Challenge of Kentucky was expanded with the opening of Priscilla's Place, a 6-month residential recovery center for adult women in Louisville. In 2007 Teen Challenge of Western KY was opened for men in Webster County and Chad's Hope Teen Challenge, another men's recovery center, was opened in Manchester in 2008. In 2009, a 5-week Pre-Induction program was added to our Women's Ministries. Working alongside these residential programs are over 20 non-residential programs across the commonwealth as well as the Stay Sharp prevention program that has been presented in schools and youth groups across Kentucky.