Welcome to the Official Website of the Central Territory's Adult Rehabilitation Centers and Family Stores.
An Adult Rehabilitation Center serves men with social, emotional and spiritual needs who have lost the ability to cope with their problems and provide for themselves. The center provides adequate housing with work, group and individual therapy in clean wholesome surroundings. The entire program of an adult rehabilitation center is built on a spiritual motivation-- a compulsion to help men and women as an expression of Divine love.
Rehabilitation is the process of restoring individuals to their best possible level of functioning. It includes all aspects of the center program-- the spiritual emphasis, to bring people into an effective relationship with God; work therapy; health and education; social and leisure-time activities; individual and group therapy; the living arrangements; and the general aura of the center.
For over 100 years The Salvation Army has been providing assistance to people with a variety of social and spiritual afflictions through its 119 United States based Adult Rehabilitation Centers (ARCs). The Adult Rehabilitation Center ministry began in 1881 when William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, opened shelters for homeless people on the streets of England and this initiative quickly spread to the United States.
Persons who have sought our ministry, nurture, and healing have come with issues of substance misuse, legal problems, relational conflicts, homelessness, unemployment, and most importantly, a need for spiritual awakening and restoration.
Mission
The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center ministries in the United States provide an in-residence rehabilitation program with a focus on basic necessities. Each beneficiary (program participant) is provided with a clean and healthy living environment, good food, work therapy, leisure time activities, group and individual counseling, spiritual direction, and resources to assist each person to develop life skills and a personal relationship with God as provided by Jesus Christ.
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