By Alex: 2004-2006 I was kidnapped from my bed in the middle of the night with my moms consent. Two people came into my room and took me from my bed by my hands and feet while I was kicking and screaming and then locked me in the back of an SUV. I arrivied to [...]

By Annalyse: 2011-2013 I had a really hard childhood growing up. It wasn’t my fault but my go to behavior was to self destruct. I was playing video games 24/7 in order to escape what I was dealing with at home. I had just returned home from a 10 month wilderness program called SOAR, but [...]

By Makaela: 2011-2013 I was sent to Teen Challenge at 15 for smoking weed ONCE and having a boyfriend that my newly adopted parents didn’t approve of. From the very first day, I was isolated from all of the other girls. I wasn’t allowed to speak or interact with anyone for my first two weeks [...]

By Sacheen: 2019-2020 I sent my 15-year-old daughter to Kansas City Girls Academy in September of 2019 thinking it was my last hope and an answer to a desperate prayer. I later came to realize that this is how these programs prey on parents and ultimately make us unwitting partners in their victimization of our [...]

By Giovanna: 2019-2020 Basically, I was sent to this program a month before my fifteenth birthday due to extreme relationship dysfunction between men and my mother. Upon arrival, staff immediately told my mother to leave, and I was not allowed to say goodbye. I was strip searched by a woman I obviously hadn’t known a [...]

By Melissa: 2017-2019 On September 26, 2017, I was admitted to Columbus Girls Academy, an all-girls Teen Challenge program located right on the Georgia border in Seale, Alabama. I stayed there until I completed on February 11, 2019. I was freshly 17 when I was admitted and nearly 19 when I left. The program was [...]

By Heather: 2010-2013 When I was 17 years old, I was dropped off at Teen challenge of San Antonio by my mother. I was an angry teen whose father abandoned her and had endured quite a bit of abuse growing up. None-the-less, an angry teen. We were forced to work in awful weather conditions for [...]

By Anonymous: 2019-2020 I honestly appreciate the fact that I was able to disconnect from my old life and rebuild myself as a person without distractions. However, I do not support the methods used at Teen Challenge (CGA) and wholeheartedly believe that it was my choice to change and I was able to do so [...]

By Anonymous: 2017-2018 I experienced extreme conversion therapy for being “sick with homosexuality.” My parents took me there after i had a suicide attempt due to undiagnosed bipolar. They told me god was punishing me and making me depressed cause I was living in sun. almost all of my PSNCs were related to homosexuality and [...]