FAQ

Two student-members getting ready for a softball game in Newark 

  • Many of our clients, called student members, come from families fractured by poverty, violence, educational failure and loss of hope
  • 65% of our student members come from New Jersey Urban Centers and 35% from other areas of the state including suburban or rural areas
  • We serve adult men and women, adolescent males and women with children
  • Two thirds of our student members are referred through the criminal justice system
  • The most common addiction we treat involved heroin, follow by marijuana, cocaine and alcohol
  • We are a long-term program because complex addiction problems created over a lifetime are not solved overnight
  • Residential treatment costs $21,700 per year while incarceration costs $26-50,000 per year
  • Integrity House is almost always at capacity and has waiting lists from jails, courts and the streets.
  • The Integrity House gospel choir, The Souls of Integrity, performs at various community and church functions
  • Integrity House members speak at schools, colleges, churches and civic organizations
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