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
