Teen Challenge San Diego in San Diego, CA

About This Facility

Directory information from SAMHSA N-SUMHSS 2025. This listing is not an endorsement or independent verification. Confirm current services, eligibility, and availability directly with the facility.

Services Listed in the Directory

  • Aftercare/continuing care

  • Adults

    Facility accepts adults (26-64) for treatment.

  • Anger management

    Uses strategies to address the anger cycle, conflict resolution, assertiveness skills, and anger-control plans. The goal of anger management is to reduce both emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes.

  • Assistance with obtaining social services

    Assistance obtaining government services provided for the benefit of the community designed to promote social well being (i.e. education, medical care, housing, etc.).

  • Breathalyzer or blood alcohol testing

    A device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.

  • Brief intervention

    A short-term intervention, usually one to five sessions, for substance abusers who are not yet dependent.

  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for clients referred from the court/judicial system.

  • Case management service

    Helps people arrange for appropriate services and supports through a case manager who monitors the needs of clients/patients and their families and coordinates services, such as mental health, social work, health, educational, vocational, recreational, transportation, advocacy, and respite care, as needed.

  • Clients with co-occurring pain and substance use disorders

  • Comprehensive substance use assessment

  • Drug or alcohol urine screening

    Analyzes your urine for the presence of certain illegal drugs and prescription medications.

  • Discharge Planning

    A process that aims to improve the coordination of services after discharge from the hospital by considering the patient’s needs in the community.

  • Employment counseling or training

    Advises, coaches, provides information to and supports people who are planning, seeking and managing their life/work direction.

  • Group counseling

    Form of therapy where people with similar experiences/issues come together with a professional therapist.

  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)

    Involves blood test that measure HBV (Hepatitis B virus) antigens and antibodies.

  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)

    Test for Hepatitis C, which is usually done and recommended for persons currently injecting drugs, ever injected drugs, were prior recipients of transfusions or organ transplants, or have certain medical conditions, including persons: 1. who received clotting factor concentrates produced before 1987 2. who were ever on long-term hemodialysis 3. with persistently abnormal alanine aminotransferase levels (ALT) 4. who have HIV infection

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

    Medical treatment that is provided in a hospital or other facility and requires at least one overnight stay.

  • Clients with HIV or AIDS

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons with HIV or AIDS.

  • HIV testing

    Determines whether you are infected with HIV, a virus that weakens the immune system and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

  • Individual counseling

    Process through which clients work one-on-one with a trained mental health clinician in a safe, caring, and confidential environment.

  • Interim services for clients

  • Male

    Male

  • Adult men

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for adult men.

  • Does not use medication assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder

  • Does not use MAT for opioid use disorders

  • No payment accepted

  • Outcome follow-up after discharge

  • Outpatient

    Describes patients who receive treatment services without an overnight stay at a treatment facility or hospital.

  • Outreach to persons in the community

  • Regular outpatient treatment

  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

    A program which helps low-income, uninsured, or underinsured patients who need help paying for all or part of their medical bills.

  • Mentoring/peer support

  • Private non-profit organization

    A charitable organization that does not qualify as a public charity.

  • Relapse prevention

    A cognitive behavioral therapy developed for the treatment of problem drinking and adapted later for treatment of cocaine addiction. Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic behaviors. Relapse prevention encompasses several cognitive behavioral strategies that facilitate abstinence as well as provide help for people who experience relapse.

  • Residential/24-hour residential

  • Long-term residential

  • Substance use treatment

    Refers to a range of services, including problem identification and diagnosis, brief interventions, assessment of substance use and related problems, treatment planning, counseling, medical services, psychiatric services, psychological services, social services, and follow-up for persons with alcohol or other drug problems (Institute of Medicine, 1990).

  • Substance use disorder counseling

    A short-term treatment that has been generalized for a variety of disorders including opiate drug dependence and cocaine abuse. The therapy includes supportive techniques which encourage the patient to discuss personal experiences, and expressive techniques, which enable the patient to work through interpersonal relationship issues and gain greater self-understanding.

  • Substance use disorder education

  • Seniors or older adults

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Seniors or older adults.

  • Self-help groups

    Groups in which members share the same issue, condition, or situation and thus are in a position to provide help and support to each other.

  • Smoking not permitted

    Smoking is not allowed.

  • Spanish

    Staff counselors provide treatment in Spanish.

  • Social skills development

  • Screening for substance use

    Test to determine whether a person is experiencing symptoms of substance use and needs treatment.

  • STD testing

    Testing to determine the type of sexually transmitted disease a person may be carrying.

  • Screening for tobacco use

    Determines a client's use of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, or smokeless tobacco. It is generally recommended that providers screen for tobacco use on a regular basis by asking clients, as they are seen, about their current and past use of tobacco products and their exposure to secondhand smoke or tobacco.

  • Transportation assistance

  • TB screening

    Skin tests that are used to screen people who are at high risk for TB exposure such as people with diseases or conditions that weaken their immune system.

  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

    Includes interventions for persons who use tobacco and want help with stopping, including behavioral support or counseling in groups or individually.

  • Treatment for gambling disorder

  • Treatment for other addiction disorder

    Treatment for behavioral addictions or process addictions and occur when a person is dependent upon a specific behavior (i.e. gambling addiction, compulsive shopping disorder, etc.).

  • Clients who have experienced trauma

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for persons who have experienced trauma.

  • Vaping not permitted

  • Veterans

    Facility has a program or group specifically tailored for Veterans.

  • Vocational training or educational support (for example, high school coursework, GED preparation, etc.)

  • Young Adults

    Facility accepts young adults (18-25) for treatment.

Contact and Location

5450 Lea Street, San Diego, CA, 92105

Phone: 619-265-0337