Teen Challenge – Happy Valley Women & Children’s Center

Teen Challenge–Happy Valley Women & Children’s Center, located on 25 acres of countryside property west of I-5 in Anderson, California, serves single women and their children under 18 years of age, who have life-controlling problems, including addictions to drugs or alcohol.

Residential

The Teen Challenge–Happy Valley Women & Children’s Center houses twenty-six women and sixteen children. The facility is associated with The Teen Challenge, a non-profit organization with multiple locations in Northern California and Nevada.

Teen Challenge–Happy Valley offers support, protection, and encouragement in a safe and stable environment. Residents take part in the official Teen Challenge program that includes education, mentoring, and guidance for women and their children.

They take a holistic approach, with components of confronting the destructive thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that contribute to life-controlling problems, as well as biblical principles that lead to spiritual, emotional, mental, social, and economic wholeness. Chapel services, Christian growth classes, church attendance, and mentoring are also part of the program. Students participate in work programs designed to teach them positive work ethic, responsibility, and pride in effort. The mothers are assisted in finding future employment opportunities. An on-site computer learning center is available.