Syracuse Men’s Center
Our Syracuse Adult & Teen Challenge 12-month residential program provides hope, healing, and a future to those who struggle with addiction or any life-controlling issues. We work with men and women ages 18 and up through their journey to sobriety. Men and women that come to our program not only receive a holistic approach to recovery from life-controlling problems, but they also acquire a new value system that honors family, takes responsibility for their community, cultivates a positive work ethic, and helps them become productive healthy members of society.
Our Men’s Home is located at 124 Furman St. Our men’s facility has 26 beds for residents, 8 beds for apprentices, 5 re-entry beds, and 2 live-in staff beds. Our focus is to restore the lives of those who are lost, broken, and have been caught in the vicious cycle of addiction.
Residents receive daily biblical academic studies, church services three days a week, vocational training, mentoring, local church involvement, and daily chapel services. Leadership training is built into the program and every resident who graduates leaves with a GED. Aftercare planning is assessed and individualized for each resident. Continuing options beyond the program are apprenticeship opportunities and re-entry housing.
Our licensed counselors work with the residents in one-on-one and group sessions once a week to assist in their journey of recovery and to treat the various mental and emotional disorders and behavioral challenges that may present themselves.
At Syracuse Adult & Teen Challenge we are committed to demonstrating how valuable every resident is to God by providing a clean, well-furnished, and home-like environment to live in, where each resident may experience God’s saving grace, redeeming love, and transforming power.
Our Syracuse Adult & Teen Challenge Centers are overseen by Director Rashad Hamdan, who has served the ministry of New York Adult & Teen Challenge since 2016.
Syracuse Men’s Center
124 Furman Street, Syracuse, NY 13205
Intake Services: (315) 478-4139
Location Director: Rashad Hamdan
Rashad Hamdan serves on the Executive Leadership Team at New York Adult & Teen Challenge. He is a graduate of Long Island Adult & Teen Challenge and has been part of Adult & Teen Challenge since 2015. His journey began when he walked through the doors as a resident in the program. At that time, his life had fallen apart—he had lost everything due to heroin addiction.
When all hope seemed lost and his relationships with his family were broken, Adult & Teen Challenge welcomed him with open arms. He arrived at the center that day with nothing to his name but the clothes on his back.
It was there that Rashad was introduced to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and his life was forever changed. Through the discipleship process of Adult & Teen Challenge, he realized that God had placed a call on his life to share the gospel with others struggling with addiction. After completing the program, he stayed on as an apprentice, eventually joined the staff, attended the New York Ministry Network School of Ministry, married his beautiful wife, Katherine, in 2019, and is now the proud father of two young sons, Jaxon and Carter.
Rashad shares, “What an honor it is to fulfill the call God has given me—to come alongside men who are currently struggling with addiction and show them the hope we all have in Jesus. Looking back on my wayward years before I knew the Lord, I never thought I had a future. I thank God daily for the ‘new creation’ I am and for the new life He has given me.”
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”