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Our Mission Statement
Third Way Center offers truth and hope to high risk, disadvantaged, and often homeless adolescents and their families with complex mental health issues, working towards trauma resolution and therefore becoming productive members of society.
We Offer Truth and Hope
Third Way Center continually adapts innovative science combined with dedicated mental health treatment for youth in need, allowing growth & healing to begin.
5,000+ Teens
Served

500,000+ Hours of
Therapy Sessions

79% Earn Diploma or GED


of teens come to Third Way Center with a history of abuse or severe neglect

We Break the Cycle
Adolescents make their way to Third Way Center from a variety of backgrounds, often from foster care, youth corrections or homelessness.
Our goal is to break the cycle of trauma by helping young teens discover their own path to success.
How We Help
Encephalopathy recovery unit
Utilizing the most recent scientific research and data available, we offer the only brain trauma unit of its kind in the United States
Continuum of residential care
Five licensed residential facilities and two state-approved alternative high schools to continue education and build practical life skills
Six Boxes© Treatment Methodology
Our trademarked approach to addressing the root trauma and bringing healing through the personal pursuit of justice has proven results
Our 71% success rate treating teens
After brain trauma recovery and dedicated hours of therapy, empowered youth can both reconcile their pasts and own their futures
How You Can Help
“Every day I’m living to my potential, working to make our community a better place, and helping to give the teens at Third Way Center a chance to follow in my footsteps.”
– TWC Graduate
My Truth Is:
“I can learn to love myself each and every day.”
My Hope Is:
“To be able to let myself feel happy and live a successful life.”
– Current TWC Resident
I Give Because:
“Any way I can help the next generation to see their potential, to see how much they can do and change, it empowers me.”
– TWC Donor
My Success Is:
“Every day I’m living to my potential, working to make our community a better place, and helping to give the teens at Third Way Center a chance to follow in my footsteps.”
My Success Is:
“Every day I’m living to my potential, working to make our community a better place, and helping to give the teens at Third Way Center a chance to follow in my footsteps.”
My Truth Is:
“I can learn to love myself each and everyday”My Hope Is:
“To be able to let myself feel happy and live a successful life”
I Give Because:
"Any way I can help the next generation to see their potential, to see how much they can do and change, it empowers me."