I had a good friend as a kid who NEVER went in a program, and is dead now. We kinda parted ways just before I went into a program, age 16. While in the program, my folks saw that she was arrested for B & E, and went to talk to her mom about maybe considering the program for her. Her mom totally avoided the subject.
5 years later, I picked up the paper to see her mugshot and that she had been stabbed to death and left on the side of a road. Into drugs, prostitution, all kinds of shit. She was 22.
People die.
I went through the program, graduated, went to college, married, had children and have a pretty cool life overall.