In The Media

This documentary series follows on-going efforts to expose America’s “troubled teen” industry (TTI). For six decades and counting, this billion-dollar business has used what it calls “tough love” as a form of treatment despite numerous deaths, countless suicides, life-altering injuries, and instances of child sexual abuse...

This video offers a comprehensive deep dive into Teen Challenge of Oklahoma and its connection to the broader troubled teen industry. We examine the program's structure, practices, and claims of faith-based rehabilitation, alongside testimonies from former participants...

Teen Challenge is a network of Christian faith-based corporations intended to provide rehabilitation services to people struggling with addiction. I went to one of those facilities. This is my story.

Hey! My name is Mary. I'm 26 years old and I spent a lot of my teenage years bouncing between religious rehabilitation programs for troubled girls, (and one psych ward stay). I am speaking only off my experience...

Warning about the troubled teen rehabilitation program called Teen Challenge.

The Troubled Teen Industry has existed in the background for most of our lives... What’s truly behind this multi-billion dollar industry? Are these places good for changing a child’s life, or are they trauma factories for the most vulnerable kids in our country today?

This is a documentary film short about The Ohio Valley Teen Challenge program at the time I went through it. I am just being honest... I believe more harm than good is done spiritually and psychologically at this facility, at least it was when I was there.

This is a lecture on the history and issues surrounding Adult & Teen Challlenge USA/Global. This is not to discredit any positive experience provided through T.C. and their affiliates... This video is for education and not a witch hunt.

Naomi Wood - Women & Crime Podcast Ep 144A teenage girl dies at a Christian Boarding School. And though initial reports made her death seem like a medical issue, further investigations revealed the school was the one responsible.

This is the Naomi Woods story.

Naomi Woods VigilThe Wood family speaks about their daughter, Naomi Wood, who passed away at Lakeland Girls Home (a Teen Challenge facility)

Behind Closed DoorsClaire Bodnar and Jacob Tetlow investigate Teen Challenge (an Ozarks Summer Program) as well as Agape Boarding School.

Surviving Teen Challenge of Oklahoma: Digging into the Fundie Troubled Teen BootcampsIn this powerful and personal interview, Lynn shares her story of surviving the Teen Challenge girls' camp in Oklahoma. She opens up about her time in the program, the impact it had on her mental health, and what life has looked like since leaving. This conversation sheds light on the experiences many teens face inside faith-based behavior modification programs, and how these environments can shape — and sometimes harm — the young people placed in them. Suppose you’re researching the troubled teen industry, looking for survivor stories, or trying to understand the realities behind Teen Challenge programs. In that case, Lynn’s firsthand account offers an honest and eye-opening perspective.

"Therapeutic Boarding School" Rulebook TourIn response to the program documentary, here is the rulebook from the program that I went to. If you've seen the first rulebook tour this might be repetitive, but I plan on taking the old video down and having this one in it's place. CGA took down the google reviews again and there is only a yelp page now.

Bad Kid, Go Away | The Hidden Horrors of Teen Challenge with Program Survivor Lynn Green

This week I sit and talk with Tyler, ex-resident of the Teen Challenge Programme. This is another example of abuse and deprivation forced onto young people in need of support and guidance.

Our youngest guest to-date, Aliya Kasabian recounts her chilling involuntary initiation into the Boise Girls Academy... eventually, Aliya discovers that if she is ever to be free, the only way out is to become… a true believer.

/u/m3rlino is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss her upbringing, the death of her step dad, moving in with her father, addiction, how she was sent to an all women’s pentecostal discipleship program...