By: Emily J. Reynolds

BROCKTON -- Teen Challenge Brockton has been serving the community for almost 50 years.

         As part of the Teen Challenge New England & New Jersey organization, Teen Challenge Brockton’s mission is rescuing and restoring men -- 18 years and older -- from drug and alcohol addiction through a faith-based recovery program. The 15-month residential program is structured around spiritual, academic, and vocational training. The only qualification for entry is a stated personal desire to change.

    Since opening its doors, Teen Challenge Brockton has never turned a single person away. Staff members have given up their beds and multiple people have shared a single room – whatever it took to ensure that any man who said he wanted to change was accepted into the program.