Troubled Teens Resources

Schools for troubled teens and other programs for troubled teens can get shot down before they even get started if citizens are not too keen on the idea that juveniles might become their neighbors. Many times the state or non-profits seek to purchase properties in or near residential areas,alarming residents with the prospect of possibly violent teens in their midst.

Such is the dilemma of a Christian based school trying to create facilities that will house teens in recovery. It seems everyone is for the project - as long as it is located “somewhere else.”

“For more than three hours, people emerged from the standing-room-only crowd..to make impassioned pleas for and against the placement of the facility on six acres of the Lori Rider farm…
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Shiloh has been conducting a nonresidential counseling program…since 2005 and is now ready to start its residential treatment facility. The program serves 10 teens and their families…

Rider, vice president of Shiloh who owns 55 acres of farmland west of Bridgeville, has agreed to donate the six acres needed for the facility.

She opened the public hearing saying she wanted to help address the concerns by putting out facts, and she also gave a handful of letters of support to the commission.
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She said the program is not mandated and not state supported. “We are not a correctional center, but a recovery center where teens and families recover with an outpouring of love. We remove them from an unhealthy environment and unhealthy relationships,” she said.
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