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  • July 7, 2010

    2010 Highlights:  Central Worship Centre Mission Team 2010

    Pastor Tim Dukes and sixty four other missionaries from his Church, Central Worship Centre and the Delmarva Christian High school, Delaware, visited Teen Challenge Jamaica  January, 11-19, 2010.

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  • July 7, 2009

    2009 Highlights:  Graduation Glory

    Graduation for students, who have completed since April 08, was held on Saturday March 7, 2009,

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  • December 16, 2008

    2008 Highlights

    For the first quarter of the year we had 24 Students in the program, 10 in the Training phase and 14 in
    induction. We had six men in our re-entry program, five of whom were gainfully employed and ontributed
    twenty percent of their net salary to housing at TCJ.

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Men's Programme

 THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF ADDICTION

 

What takes them there?

The DRUG

  •  Crack is readily AVAILABLE anywhere on the   Island
  • AFFORDABLE: J$50 can buy you a hit! 

The ENVIRONMENT

  •  Breakdown of the Family
  • Unemployment and Poverty
  • Dysfunction and Violence
  • Crime and Corruption
  • Lack of Drug Education and Awareness
  • Family members or Peers use

The PERSON
  • Absence of a Father
  • Lack of Self-esteem
  • Neglect or Abuse by family members
  • No Hope or Purpose for life
  • Escape from the Emotional Pain of life
  • Lack of Teaching/modeling of Life Skills
  • Socio-economic background
  • Curiosity and Wrong Choices
  • Mental Illness


What keeps them there?
  • Hopelessness
  • Pride
  • Love of the "genie"
  • Lack of opportunity
  • Don’t know of any other options
  • No Support Network
  • Life on streets has become "comfortable"
  • Don’t want to deal with Issues
  • For Women:  easy to use their bodies  for money


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