Work Experience

Our work experience program gives the students opportunity to develop a good work ethic. Work experience may include cooking, catering, grounds maintenance, landscaping, painting, general janitorial, and auto detailing.

We have found that work assignments often help surface unhealthy attitudes towards work, authority, God, racism, dishonesty, and disorganization, and often reveals (at least in part) why students may have misused alcohol and/or other substances to cope with their failures. Work experience trains and equips our students to apply first-hand the lessons they are learning in class, and prepares them to live a productive, drug free life upon their completion of the Teen Challenge program. Through the work experience component, students learn specific principles regarding a healthy work ethic such as: 

- Punctuality
- Cheerfulness and willingness regarding work
- Submission to authority
- Collaboration with fellow co-workers
- Completing tasks and experiencing the satisfaction of work well done
- Dealing with and overcoming failure
- Taking initiative and seeking greater responsibility
- Desiring greater knowledge and skills within one's line of work