Cottonwood Police Officer Roger Scarim and daughter Stephanie, left, and Mayor-elect Diane Joens

and husband Paul attended the Teen Challenge Banquet

The Teen Challenge banquet room at Tavasci School.

Mayor-elect Diane Joens, husband Paul, and the Rev. Snow Peabody visit before the event.

The Rev. Snow Peabody, Cottonwood Mayor-elect and Paul Joens

Mayor-Elect Diane Joens welcomes the Teen Challenge Banquet attendees to Cottonwood.

Teen Challenge Banquet-goers.

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Cottonwood Police Officer Roger Scarim and daughter Stephanie, left, and Mayor-elect Diane Joens

and husband Paul attended the Teen Challenge Banquet

Photos by Teen Challenge

TEEN CHALLENGE OF ARIZONA

The Faith-Based Solution to the Drug Epidemic in Arizona

Mission Statement

Teen Challenge endeavors to help people become mentally stable,

emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well, and spiritually alive.

Each spring Teen Challenge travels throughout Arizona for a series of spring banquets and to share their success stories. Mayor-elect Diane Joens gave the welcome introduction for the Cottonwood banquet on April 27, 2007. Cottonwood Police Officer Roger Scarim represented the Cottonwood Police Department. His daughter Stephanie accompanied him.

In 1975, a landmark study on the effectiveness of Teen Challenge was released by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. The research project found that 86 percent of those who complete the Teen Challenge program remained drug-free. More recently, in June 1999, a national study conducted by Northwestern University in Illinois once again showed Teen Challenge has maintained a cure rate of 86%!

Teen Challenge in Arizona began in 1965 and today statewide has a 185-bed space capacity. There are three men's centers, a new 20-bed Springboard adolescent girls' shelter care home, and two contact offices. In June of 2003, the Home of Hope Women and Children's Home opened in Casa Grande. This home is only the second of its kind in Teen Challenge nationwide.

How to get help:  http://www.azteenchallenge.org/ (Leaving this Web site.) 1-800-346-7859 or in Tucson, 1-520-292-2273