History
Teen Challenge was established in 1958 by David Wilkerson, an Assemblies of God pastor who left a rural Pennsylvania church to work among teenage gang members and socially marginalized people in New York City. Teen Challenge was launched from a small office on Staten Island.
In 1960, the Teen Challenge headquarters was relocated to a large historical house in Brooklyn, New York.
By late 2008, Teen Challenge USA had grown to include 231 locations, including residential programs and evangelical outreach centers, in the United States.
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