TAFS MEMORIAL
Houston's Leading Teen Recovery Program
TAFS Memorial provides structured outpatient support that combines licensed clinical care, peer connection, family support, and real-life engagement.
How the Program Works
TAFS Memorial combines licensed clinical care with a strong peer culture, adventure learning, and pro-social engagement — all within a stand-alone clubhouse on a beautiful campus.
Healing begins with connection. When teens feel safe, connected, and understood, clinical care can do its deepest work.
Engagement First. Clinical Care That Takes Root.
We integrate these core elements in our adolescent recovery model that helps teens stay engaged in their healing journey while helping families grow stronger alongside them.
Teen Peer Engagement
Connection, adventure learning, pro-social activities, shared experience, fun, laughter, and belonging.
Licensed Clinical Care
Therapeutic support, counseling, structure, skill-building, and evidence-informed practices.
Family Participation
Parent groups, support, learning, relationship-building, and strengthened family connection.
Adventure Learning
& Pro-Social Engagement
Pro-social experiences and adventure learning are core to how TAFS engages adolescents in recovery — not as extras, but as essential parts of the treatment model.
Through shared challenge, teamwork, and yes, genuine fun, teens build confidence, deepen relationships, and strengthen the trust that makes clinical work possible. For many teens, growth begins the moment they feel included, succeed at something difficult, and discover strengths they didn’t know they had.
Shared challenge, fun, and laughter help teens build the trust that makes healing possible.
The TAFS Model at Memorial
The TAFS Model integrates evidence-informed clinical care with peer support, family participation, and structured pro-social experiences. At Memorial, it comes to life through a private-pay outpatient program designed to help teens:
- Build emotional regulation and coping skills
- Strengthen healthy peer relationships
- Rebuild trust with parents and siblings
- Develop accountability and confidence
- Experience recovery as positive and more fun than old behavior
Parents Are Part of the Process
Many teens don’t walk in ready to talk, trust, or change. We are designed for that.
Through individual, group, and family therapy, peer connection, and adventure learning, teens build trust, practice new skills, and experience recovery as something they can actually participate in.
We support adolescents and families facing behavioral health concerns, substance use, anxiety, depression, family conflict, school avoidance, and teens transitioning from higher levels of care.
Every teen and family is different. Our admissions process helps determine whether TAFS Memorial is the right fit.
Lasting Results
Graduates of TAFS Memorial are now thriving as doctors, attorneys, Air Force pilots, Navy SEALs, firefighters, and business leaders — many devoting their lives to service and leading recovery-focused organizations. Most importantly, many are now strong, committed parents and spouses, equipped to break the cycle of generational substance use. These are the true measures of success.
The Time to Reach Out Is Now
If your teen is struggling with mental health, behavioral health, substance use, or recovery — or if your family needs more support than you currently have — our clinical and recovery support staff at TAFS Memorial can help. The first step is simply a phone conversation. Call our clinician now to ask about admissions, program fit, and next steps.
What TAFS Memorial Parents Say
“TAFS provided the structure our son needed while allowing him to stay connected to home and school. The change was steady and real.”
Elaine H.
“The peer community made the difference. It wasn’t about forcing change, it was about creating an environment where change became possible.”
Rebecca T.
“Family therapy strengthened our communication in ways we didn’t know we needed.