intolerance could be publicly funded. In October 2021, an article in The New Yorker described how fifteen year old Emma Burris was forced into Teen Challenge and then forced to surrender her baby for adoption. , Teen Challenge continues to seek to indoctrinate clients with its version of Pentecostalism. In the United States, there are no federal laws or agencies that regulate organizations like Teen Challenge. When a Texas regulatory agency threatened to shut down a Teen Challenge program in San Antonio in the 1990s due to treatments that did not comply with the state’s licensing and training requirements, Texas Governor George W. Bush created an exemption for faith-based programs. References External links Teen Challenge global website Evangelical Christian humanitarian organizations Drug rehabilitation Addiction and substance abuse organizations