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Outreaches, Evangelism and Community Involvement
Despite the appearance of affluence in Long Island and Suffolk County New York, there are pockets of poverty and children facing extreme need all around us. Great numbers of disadvantaged, marginalized and “at risk youth” cry out for our attention. While prison populations grew slower in 2001, 10% of African American men between the ages of 25 and 29 are in prison. Rock the BLOCK
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In partnership with other Teen Challenge centers across the East coast and local community groups, we maintain an innovative, multifaceted community initiative that strategically targets troubled neighborhoods across Long Island and for intervention, prevention concerts, food distribution, and |
Furthermore, each year we distribute over 250,000 free brochures at these events and through our Drug
Awareness Teams. Our goal is to reverse the course of drugs, violence, and jail by strategic intervention
in the lives of young people in order to prevent them from reproducing this cycle of prison and abandonment
for another generation.
Long Island Teen Challenge is your community’s effective intervention alternative!
 Long Island Teen
Challenge is at the cutting edge of issues
facing families and young people today.
At the
practical level, our track record of success over the two decades is unsurpassed in this arena of endeavor.
We are a strategic resource to the community to harvest our most precious treasure, young lives. Young
people make up only 30% of our population, but they are 100% of our future!
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