Nexus Family Healing

1111 28th Street NE
Austin, MN 55912

Gerard Family Healing

(507) 433-1843
Gerard Academy MN 55912

About Nexus Family Healing

Located on 12 acres in rural Minnesota, Nexus-Gerard Family Healing offers mental health and addiction services for children, adolescents, and families in Austin, Minnesota. They provide inpatient, dual diagnosis, and aftercare services for youth ages 6 to 18, including support for their families to cope with the challenges of mental health issues. The academy is licensed by the State of Minnesota and accepts private insurance and self pay.

Gerard Academy is located in a private, homey setting offering ample opportunities for outdoor recreation and relaxation. The campus features community gardens and comfortable common areas, as well as a state accredited K through 12 day school. The grounds are located adjacent to a nature preserve, and wildlife can frequently be seen on the center’s property.

The inpatient program is designed to help individuals achieve recovery through mental, emotional, and physical wellness. Children and their families receive trauma informed, CBT based individual, group, and family counseling. Evidence based complementary approaches like EMDR are available to support trauma recovery. Education and life skills development are also prioritized to support long term health and sobriety. Courses are offered in self care, coping, problem solving, communication, relapse prevention, and family and community reintegration.

When clients complete treatment, aftercare services provide ongoing support. This continuing care can include academic and vocational training and transitional support. Social services, medical and mental health, and addiction recovery referrals are also provided to facilitate clients’ successful reintegration into their home community.

Latest Reviews

leilani villagomez
3 weeks ago on Google
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jaden Belgarde
1 month ago on Google
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michael Wendling
1 month ago on Google
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I went here when I was a kid for a court order and it was hell. No cameras so the staff could get away with a lot of abuse to the children, aswell as use their metal disabilities against them to cover them when questioned. And they would use the kids past traumas against them to enrage them just to give the kid a consequence or even make them freak out and give the staff a reason to painfully restrain the child. Unless you want your child to have more trauma I recommend never even thinking about this place.
Response from the owner1 week ago
Hi Michael, Thank you for your sharing your experience. At Nexus-Gerard we committed to trauma-informed care and the safety of our youth and staff is a top priority. All feedback is taken seriously and provided to our leadership team regardless of at what point in time that experience may have been. If you would like to share more about your experiences, please contact us at ndudycha@nexusfamilyhealing.org.

Location

Accepted Insurance

Nexus Family Healing works with several private insurance providers and also accepts private payments when possible, please contact to verify your specific insurance provider.

Other Forms of Payment

Private insurance refers to any kind of healthcare coverage that isn't from the state or federal government. This includes individual and family plans offered by an employer or purchased from the Insurance Marketplace. Every plan will have different requirements and out of pocket costs so be sure to get the full details before you start treatment.

Self-pay involves paying for treatment out of your own pocket. You can use savings or credit, get a personal loan, or receive help from family and friends to fund your treatment. If you don't have insurance or your insurance plan doesn't cover a specific program, self-pay can help ensure you still get the care you need.

Addiction Treatments

Levels of Care

inpatient iconInpatient
Residential treatment programs are those that offer housing and meals in addition to substance abuse treatment. Rehab facilities that offer residential treatment allow patients to focus solely on recovery, in an environment totally separate from their lives. Some rehab centers specialize in short-term residential treatment (a few days to a week or two), while others solely provide treatment on a long-term basis (several weeks to months). Some offer both, and tailor treatment to the patient's individual requirements.

Treatments

Mental health rehabs focus on helping individuals recover from mental illnesses like bipolar disorder, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and more. Mental health professionals at these facilities are trained to understand and treat mental health issues, both in individual and group settings.

Programs

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Teen Program
Teen programs are designed to address the unique pressures teens face, pressures that can drive them to experiment with dangerous, addictive substances. They need programs that meet them exactly where they are and give them tools for long-term recovery. Therapy can help teenagers understand and work through underlying issues so they can reclaim the life ahead of them.
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Child Program
The providers who specialize in the children's rehab space understand the specialized needs that this population faces. School-based and social services such as tutoring and family counseling are often central to treatment. Child programs may also address the needs of youth experiencing substance abuse in the home, including a parent's or sibling's addiction.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a therapy modality that focuses on the relationship between one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is used to establish and allow for healthy responses to thoughts and feelings (instead of unhealthy responses, like using drugs or alcohol). CBT has been proven effective for recovering addicts of all kinds, and is used to strengthen a patient's own self-awareness and ability to self-regulate. CBT allows individuals to monitor their own emotional state, become more adept at communicating with others, and manage stress without needing to engage in substance abuse.

Group therapy is any therapeutic work that happens in a group (not one-on-one). There are a number of different group therapy modalities, including support groups, experiential therapy, psycho-education, and more. Group therapy involves treatment as well as processing interaction between group members.

In individual therapy, a patient meets one-on-one with a trained psychologist or counselor. Therapy is a pivotal part of effective substance abuse treatment, as it often covers root causes of addiction, including challenges faced by the patient in their social, family, and work/school life.

Trauma therapy addresses traumatic incidents from a client's past that are likely affecting their present-day experience. Trauma is often one of the primary triggers and potential causes of addiction, and can stem from child sexual abuse, domestic violence, having a parent with a mental illness, losing one or both parents at a young age, teenage or adult sexual assault, or any number of other factors. The purpose of trauma therapy is to allow a patient to process trauma and move through and past it, with the help of trained and compassionate mental health professionals.

Amenities

  • home-setting iconResidential Setting

Contact Information

Phone icon (507) 433-1843
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1111 28th Street NE
Austin, MN 55912

Fact checked and written by:
Kerry Nenn, BSW
Edited by:
Terri Beth Miller, PhD

Reviews of Nexus Family Healing

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Terrible place. Don’t allow your children to go here. They do the opposite of helping children.

Reviewed on 6/1/2019
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I'd ever made the staff are untrained , they have to know more about the processes and they should be nicer.

Reviewed on 2/27/2019
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2.6 (49 reviews)
leilani villagomez
3 weeks ago
1

michael Wendling
1 month ago
1

I went here when I was a kid for a court order and it was hell. No cameras so the staff could get away with a lot of abuse to the children, aswell as use their metal disabilities against them to cover them when questioned. And they would use the kids past traumas against them to enrage them just to give the kid a consequence or even make them freak out and give the staff a reason to painfully restrain the child. Unless you want your child to have more trauma I recommend never even thinking about this place.

Response from the owner1 month ago
Hi Michael, Thank you for your sharing your experience. At Nexus-Gerard we committed to trauma-informed care and the safety of our youth and staff is a top priority. All feedback is taken seriously and provided to our leadership team regardless of at what point in time that experience may have been. If you would like to share more about your experiences, please contact us at ndudycha@nexusfamilyhealing.org.
jaden Belgarde
1 month ago
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Matthew Green-Robinson
2 months ago
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I was put here on a court order when I was 16 I am now 26. I decided to watch The program on Netflix and it brought back so many terrible memories I faced during my stay here I was put in a hold for simply looking at the door or for looking back at a staff the wrong way waking down the hallway in fear I was going to be tackled from behind. If you are thinking about sending your kids here please watch this documentary there needs to be more put in place to protect these kids. THE STAFF HERE were at the time code happy and watching allegations I can see it hasn t gotten any better. People wouldn t be running if they were being treated right. Also I was apart of the bridging program so I got to go home every weekend for home visits and everyday I was threatened to have them taken away till I had told my social worker and I knew when she talked to them about it too because I was yet put into a hold for having that simple conversation.

Response from the owner2 months ago
Hi Matthew, Thank you for your sharing your experience. All feedback is taken seriously and provided to our leadership team regardless of how far back the experience may have been. Ensuring the safety of our youth, staff, and community is a top priority. We consistently assess and make changes to establish the most safe, productive, and nurturing environment. If you would like to share more about your experiences, please contact us at ndudycha@nexusfamilyhealing.org.
Elizabeth Bottelberghe
3 months ago
1

This place was torture as a neglected neurodivergent teenager. Do not send your kids there. I had to beg my social worker to get me out. They hardly even do anything to help you. You see a psychiatrist once in a while. Otherwise you just sit quietly in your assigned seat all day or else. I still have trauma from this place almost 20 years later. I see them claiming that they're so much better now. You're still making money off of an extremely vulnerable group you previously treated horribly, and it's strange how horrible they were compared to other placements I was in, which were also bad, but nothing was comparable to Gerard.

Response from the owner3 months ago
Hi Elizabeth, Thank you for your sharing your experience. All feedback is taken seriously and provided to the current leadership team regardless of how far back the experience may have been. At Nexus-Gerard we are committed to providing a safe, trauma-informed environment for all both the youth we serve and our staff. We are dedicated to our mission to help individuals find a path forward, in even the most challenging situations. If you would like to share more about your experiences, please contact us at kwolf@nexusgerard.org.
Kaylee Huska
3 months ago
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I went here in 2010 when I was 8 years old.The county placed me there for my mental health issues and to get me away from my mom who I never needed to be away from to begin with, but that's besides the point.I was there on a 90-day program and they actually put restrictions on me that told the staff that they were not allowed to touch me because I was the youngest in my group.Not only do I have trauma from spending 90 days away from my family, I also have trauma from watching them abuse the other children and teenagers there. You guys know the position that that officer held George Floyd in on the ground? They pinned ternagers and children on the floor very similar to that. It doesn't matter if they were having a melt-down, you NEVER, pin a kid to the floor and sit on them with your knee. They never did it to me ONLY because they were told not touch me. They should not have been allowed to touch any kids. There was verbal abuse as well. I hope for the sake of others that in the last 14 years things have seriously changed. Oh, and most of the stuff they confiscated from me, I never got back. The treatment was awful.

Response from the owner3 months ago
Hi Victoria, Thank you for your sharing your experience. All feedback is taken seriously and provided to the current leadership team regardless of how far back the experience may have been. At Nexus-Gerard we are committed to providing a safe, trauma-informed environment for all both the youth we serve and our staff. If you would like to share more about your experiences, please contact us at kwolf@nexusgerard.org.
Kim Evatt
4 months ago
1

I would give them a zero if it were possible. The treatment of the kids at Gerard by many staff members is swept under the rug and not even reported through incident reports as they are always supposed to be per DHS requirements. Leadership and the group I will refer to as "the untouchables" do such horrible, morally corrupt things. There are staff that are still employed there who have engaged in sex acts on campus, multiple times, many different staff. There are staff who have allow kids to "fight it out" because they are afraid to intervene. Staff who have tackled kids like a linebacker would. Staff who received speeding tickets with youth in the vehicle, still allowed to drive youth. Staff who have drug little kids by their jackets. Staff constantly yelling at kids or saying despicable things to the kids.Then there is the way HR and management are allowed to treat certain staff. The place should be shut down and I can only hope and pray for the kids sake that it is soon.

Response from the owner4 months ago
At Nexus-Gerard we are committed to a safe, trauma-informed environment for all both the youth we serve and our staff. We are proud of our dedicated staff who provide care and help youth find a path forward, in even the most challenging situations. If you would like to share more about your experience, please email our human resources department at PLY-hr@nexusfamilyhealing.org.
Zeppelin Peterson
5 months ago
5

I was There From October 31st 2000 to December 11th 2001....I know there's a lot of people that had really bad experiences there but the place helped me a lot it saved my life...I will never forget my time there...I was on chateau unit....

Response from the owner5 months ago
Zeppelin, Thank you for sharing the positive experiences who had while at Nexus-Gerard and the help our team provided in your mental health journey. We are glad to hear from you! Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review - we will share your kind words with our team.
Psy
8 months ago
3

Helpful in some areas, but some of the staff aren't well trained and border on abusive. Small kids have been pinned down by multiple heavy men, and kids are being restrained for small things. Some of the staff restrain kids in painful ways (having us sit on the floor and them in a chair, with our arms bent over the wooden armrest into their lap.) The teachers at the school there are incompetent too, causing residents to fall behind in their education. I had positive experiences at Gerard, and it helped me get my life together, but I'd suggest looking into better options.

Response from the owner8 months ago
We are glad your time with us had a positive impact on your life. Our mission is to help individuals find that path forward and appreciate hearing it made a difference for you. We re committed to providing the best trauma-informed, evidence-based practices to those in our care as well as following all protocol. All feedback is appreciated and if you would like to share more specifics about your experiences, please feel free to reach out to our agency at ndudycha@nexusgerard.org.
Cam The man
9 months ago
1

Terrible place i was ready to get help and this place completely ruined me

Response from the owner9 months ago
Hi Cam, We re sorry to hear that was your experience. We are committed to providing a healing environment where all youth in our care get the tools they need to move forward. If you would like to share more about your experience, please contact us at ndudycha@nexusgerard.org as we take all feedback seriously.
Kelly Brown
9 months ago
5

I had two different children that went there through COVID. They only have good things to say. The staff was friendly and understanding of individual kids needs.

Response from the owner9 months ago
Hi Kelly, Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! We will share your kind words with our team.
siro anderson
10 months ago
5

I was at Gerard some time in 2010, John McDonough was my counselor, I think about him a lot since he really cared for me and listened to me when I was just a kid going off the rails with no guidance, he had the Patients that I needed and a lot of the staff help me too like Dave Nick Heather Lacy and many more. I ll always remember this place for the good it brought out of me, made me point the finger at my self and not others.

Response from the owner10 months ago
Hi Siro, Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We're so glad to hear you are doing well! We will share your kind words with our team.
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