Mingus Mountain Academy

Dewey, Arizona

100 South Dewey Road
Dewey, AZ 86327

About Mingus Mountain Academy

Mingus Mountain Youth Treatment Center is located in Prescott Valley, Arizona and provides residential treatment and therapeutic group homes to girls ages 12-17 who are living with a mood or trauma disorder, impulse trauma, conduct disorder, or secondary drug addiction.

At their center, girls are exposed to a range of activities, therapies, and treatment modalities that are designed to help them navigate their struggles and reconcile and understand the trauma they may have endured during their early years

This is done through therapy sessions; individualized psychotherapy; and mental health and trauma recovery education. The facility’s unique equestrian program also helps these young women navigate their internal struggles while tapping into the process of having hope and healing for their future through the natural environment around them.

Mingus Mountain Youth Treatment Center therapeutic group homes allow teens to practice the skills they learn during their treatment program, so they can build healthy habits and continue those habits once they leave the facility. These group homes are located in nearby communities and teens are encouraged to practice their independence through part time employment as they continue through their treatment program and accompanying education curriculum.

Payment Options

Medicaid
Private insurance
Self-pay options
Financial aid
Sliding scale payment assistance
Military insurance
Military Insurance

Levels of Care

Inpatient

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.

Programs

Adolescence program

Children program

Hearing impaired program

Young adult program

Treatment

Dual Diagnosis

Many of those suffering from addiction also suffer from mental or emotional illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, or anxiety disorders. Rehab and other substance abuse facilities treating those with a dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder administer psychiatric treatment to address the person's mental health issue in addition to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

Mental Health

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.

Clinical Services

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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.

Couples Therapy

Whether a marriage or other committed relationship, an intimate partnership is one of the most important aspects of a person's life. Drug and alcohol addiction affects both members of a couple in deep and meaningful ways, as does rehab and recovery. Couples therapy and other couples-focused treatment programs are significant parts of exploring triggers of addiction, as well as learning how to build healthy patterns to support ongoing sobriety.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a modified form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a treatment designed to help people understand and ultimately affect the relationship between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. DBT is often used for individuals who struggle with self-harm behaviors, such as self-mutilation (cutting) and suicidal thoughts, urges, or attempts. It has been proven clinically effective for those who struggle with out-of-control emotions and mental health illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder.

Eating Disorder Treatment

Eating disorders include anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and dysfunctional eating patterns. Many psychologists and other mental health professionals consider eating disorders to be food addictions, meaning food is being used in an addictive way (similar to drug or alcohol addiction). Certain substance abuse treatment programs will have treatment for eating disorders as one of the services offered. An eating disorder may also present as a co-occuring disorder or dual diagnosis alongside drug and alcohol addiction.

Experiential Therapy

Experiential therapy is a form of therapy in which clients are encouraged to surface and work through subconscious issues by engaging in real-time experiences. Experiential therapy departs from traditional talk therapy by involving the body, and having clients engage in activities, movements, and physical and emotional expression. This can involve role-play or using props (which can include other people). Experiential therapy can help people process trauma, memories, and emotion quickly, deeply, and in a lasting fashion, leading to substantial and impactful healing.

Family Therapy

Research clearly demonstrates that recovery is far more successful and sustainable when loved ones like family members participate in rehab and substance abuse treatment. Genetic factors may be at play when it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental health issues. Family dynamics often play a critical role in addiction triggers, and if properly educated, family members can be a strong source of support when it comes to rehabilitation.

Group Therapy

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.

Individual Therapy

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.

Nutrition Therapy

Nutrition therapy, aka medical nutrition therapy (MNT), is a way of treating physical, emotional, and medical conditions through diet. Specific dietary plans are designed by professional nutritionists or registered dietitians, and patients follow them in order to positively affect their physical and mental health.

Trauma Therapy

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.

Contact

(602) 335-2000

Website

100 South Dewey Road
Dewey, AZ 86327

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Reviews

2.1 (78 reviews)

Google Rating

will Bedford

2 months ago

I've worked at Mingus for almost 2 years now. While there are always difficulties dealing with those who are traumatized and suffering, most of the comments you see are from slighted clients and workers. I have seen such AMAZING transformations of so many girls. I've seen girls that seemed like they couldn't ever get their act together, grow and prosper in ways that awe me. These girls need support and guidance and they are getting it at Mingus. I'm so so proud of so many girls. I wish I could explain more but it's supposed to be short. I'm so proud of my girls and amazed by the progress they have made. Keep it up Mingus girls! I'm so proud of you!

Amber Rose

3 months ago

It s been a long time. I still haven t been able to hardly talk about the trauma that this placed caused. Staff would antagonize you. I remember a girl and I we were blow drying our hair, and a staff member asked that a peer intervene on us for blow drying our hair similarly. I accepted but my dorm mate did not, she ended up being restrained. For blow drying our hair.Another time, I remember I over heard a girl cursing and being a bully about another girl, so as the program states I intervened and shook my head at her. She did not accept and put me immediately in a group support this is where all of the girls in ear shot circle around you and berate you about your behavior. I plugged my ears because I knew I wasn t going to listen to the bullies or accept the behavior. This is when the staff intervened. One on each side of me and another one directly in front. The staff member who was in-front of me was so close to my face his spit was landing in my eyes and I could feel heat from his breath. If I stuck my tongue out I would be licking him. Tell me, if someone is doing this to you.. would fight or flight kick in? The answer is yes. If you tried to speak while in a staff support all three staff members around you would yell louder drowning your voice out. I was trying to tell them that I had intervened on that girl first due to bullying. They screamed louder, the slightest move of a muscle in that moment (aggressive or even just wiping their spit from your face) will lead to a restraint.. they will grab you painfully and throw you to the ground face down and put knees in your back. Unless you say anything other than okay they will stand there like that screaming in your face for hours until you say okay Does this seem reformative to you?I remember gossip of 2 staff-student relationships. I do not understand how cutting a child off from their families is to help them in anyway.. if you have a troubled child.. reflect on their upbringing and what they have been through and put the work in as their parent to get into counseling and be gentle. Do not give up on your children and send them to this abusive hell on earth.

Watch The Program on Netflix if you want to know what this place is like. While insurance and parents are charged upward of $10,000 a month, the girls are forced into silence, mentally abused, physically abused, & humiliated. They use the seven levels of intervention, where "students" (prisoners) reprimand each other. It is a popularity contest on crack. It is impossible to improve in the program until you are aSo broken down mentally you submit. It is not therapy, it is abduction, kidnapping, and torture. Your child is unsafe here. This place mentally and psychologically wrecks young women and should be shut down.You cannot ride horses or swim without special privileges after staying six months, your clothes are dresscoded endlessly. This place will make your child hate you, forever. It removes all sorts of inalienable freedoms just because you are a minor. The staff themselves are abusive, humiliate you, and play favorites.They control your contact with the outside world-Thousands of dollars to give your child PTSD, and they will just resent you all the more for it.This place is AN ILLEGAL ABUSIVE PROGRAM WITH A TERRIBLE "SCHOOL"You are lucky if your counselor tracks you down and you get to talk for five minutes with them, before your time is up for the week. There is NO THERAPY. The school is inconsistent and constantly shut down for "HWC" restraints - the whole school shuts down because of riots.This place is a LITERAL INTERNMENT CAMP. the definition of concentration camp:a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced laborWhen I first got there, all of my lau dry was dirty. I tried and tried to get put on the laundry list, but was left in dirty underwear for a week before getting my turn. The adults said to ask the girls in charge and the girls said to ask the adults, meanwhile I was getting reprimanded and being told it was my fault for being sent away with dirty clothes.They will not let you speak freely on the phone, you have no privacy, no time in the bathroom (3minutesCold showers because the fire alarms are so sensitive )When I go to hell, it's gonna look like mingus mountain.It's actually impossible to articulate the level of mental damage this place inflicts. I would literally compare it to being a hostage or person overseas in active military. He'll, girls from Juvie were begging to go back. This place is a punishment, it feeds on the inability of girls to speak up, and their vulnerable positions already as girls who are mentally ill or defiant.Not to mention, not all of the girls are there because they are bad. Some are just foster kids with no where else to go, so they get state money to keep these poor girls.You can't talk, can't make friends, can't choose anything about yourself. This is a crime to put anyone through, and if you're a parent thinking of sending your child here, you should be ASHAMED of yourself. Do not be surprised when your child comes back, only to order SoupOnTheSide or never speak to you again, or worse.

Vincent Tallabas (Vtally)

4 months ago

This place itself is a whole disaster, staff is rude to kids , doesn t take care of them and takes advantage of authority,DO NOT bother checking this place out you re kids will either come out worse or take longer overall to come out .People who worked and or attended here rate this one star . TAKE THAT AS YOUR SIGN

Nathaniel Adair

this place is the worst if you actually want your kids to do better, sending them to mingus is the worst thing for there mental AND PHYSICAL health. the staff dont care if something wrong with you like if your sick or dont feel good they will ignore it. If you have braces or if you have the need for dental care they can never do it. I was there for 7 months and didnt get my braces adjusted once. the staff there are inappropriate and will stare at your body and make inappropriate remarks about it. some do as much as touching children. they are putting kids who all have problems in the same room and will make then go against each other n make them start fights and will keep it going. they will put hands on kids and twist there words making them stay longer.

Amillianna Medina

All I'm gonna say is are you gon listen to the kids who experienced this or the staff that enforce. It's not a coincidence that most the girls report the same things. They've done so many wrong things and their are some amazing staff but you get lucky if you get to meet one. Cause most of the staff are terrible. They are so unprofessional dating their co workers. They gossip about kids there they gossip about staff. It's just weird. And their food is horrible. Staff are just so very inappropriate with kids it's so weird how many male staff that work in a all girls facility are. My case manager said she would never send another kid here again. After the weeky inncedent reports she got about staff grooming kids, about the sexual assault. It was so tiring

Jescyn Aguilar

SHUT IT DOWN WE NEED A PETITION OR SOME CANT BE MAKING MONEY OFF CHILDRENS N TEENS TRAMAS N ISSUES THIS PLACE HAS NO CAMERA WHAT SO EVER SO THEY CHOOSE TO TREAT THEM LIKE NOTHING AND GIVE MORE TRAUMA TO THE CHILD PLACES A CHILD SHOULD BE TREATED TO GET BETTER

Sharon Hudson

Spent 10 months going through this program to come out so much worse hiding everything in fear of having to go back I was only 15 damn years old and STRUGGLING and being there taught me only one thing that people truly do not care they use and abuse and that s it I grew in myself in spite of this place

Jay Drattlo

I have read some of these reviews and to be completely honest its not all bad. Yes they provoke you, but no they do care. There are some staff there that are really supportive and kind and help you through the program. I would never say to send your daughters there but there are worse mental health facilities you could choose.

Jazz Rude

This is by far worst experience of my life. And not in a way of making kids want to do better so they don t have to go through this again. But in a way where these girls feel so belittled that they really feel helpless and will do anything just to get out of Mingus . For example I came here from being in dcs custody.And I was running away a lot from my group homes.Mingus has so many long-term affects that these girls come out of Mingus sometimes way worse than they did going in. I have to say one thing is this place definitely adds trauma. Even to the girls that may have not had traumatic experiences. One girl snuck Percs into Mingus and she thought another girl snitched on her so she poured boiling hot wat on the other girl in her sleep. absolutely insane. There was a staff that had been working there for years with so many allegations already against him. And the staff continue to do nothing about it. Until there was clear evidence that he had done some thing. Me and my friend then had to go off campus to yavapi to talk about what happened. When in reality if the staff would ve done something about it sooner that would ve never been something we would have had to face.Also me myself did not complete Mingus successfully. After eight months of so many restraints and screaming in my face I begin to not care at all anymore. I purposely assaulted a staff while he was doing a restraint on another girl just to leave Mingus. And as sad as it sounds going to Yavapai county Will actually get you out of Mingus. I stayed at Yavapai for one night and the next morning The staff at Yavapai county juvie said that Mingus said they would take me back. I broke down and begged them that I would stay in the Juvie just don t bring me back to Mingus. And I said if they brought me back to Mingus I would assault another staff and just go back to juvie . The fact that I was that desperate to be in Juvie instead of Mingus to the point I was begging . Just really shows how this place really is .and also they put me in yavapi bridges while I waited for DCS to pick me up and take me back to Phoenix. At Yavapai Bridges I got to watch movies. They we re constantly giving me snacks and putting on Disney+ for me. SO MY ADVICE IS IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO GET OUT OF MINGUS DO SOMETHING NOT TO BAD BUT JUST ENOUGH WHERE THEYLL PRESS CHARGES ON YOU AND WHEN THEY TAKE YOU TO YAVAPI COUNTY BE PREPARED THEY WILL KEEP YOU IN A HOLDING CELL FOR A FEW HOURS BUT IF THEY SAY MINGUS IS Going TO TAKE YOU BACK REFUSE WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IN YOU AND MARK MY WORDS YOU WILL BE OUT BY NO LATER THAN THE NEXT DAY WHOEVER Your GUARDIAN Is IS GOING TO HAVE TO GO AND PICK YOU Up. _ Sincerely JAZLYNN- MINGUS I TOLD YOU TO REMEMBER MY NAME AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING

joc romo

5 months ago

Wonderful staff that really care

Pretty Malika

6 months ago

I was sent here at the tender age 16 years old for nine month due to a court order by the county of Alameda. Upon arrival I was restrained my very first day on campus because I didn t want to take off my shoes and give them to the staff members. The staff members will literally strip you of everything including your dignity. During my nine month stay I endure pure hell. I was only able to talk to my family once a week which was monitored, I wasn t able to go home to see my family until my eighth month in the program which was a month before I would actually be released from the program, my family wasn t allowed to call to check on me. During my stay I made two friends one which was molested by a staff member and sent to another Program in Colorado to finish off her the remainder of time she had left in the program and yes the police did get involved. For so many years I hated the state of Arizona for the simple fact I had been sent away to Mingus Mountain Academy for nine months of my life.The time I spent at Mingus Mountain Academy was the worst time of my life and I tend to try to black that part of my life out of my memory. While attending Mingus they had a dog by the name of Bailey that could track you down by your scent of your belongings that you would have left behind because decided to AWOL because of the lack of respect and awful treatment that you ve endured smh that place was a damn prison. We literally had to get on our hands and knees and scrub the floors, we weren t allowed to talk inside of the dorm rooms unless we were monitored literally everything we did had to be monitored. I was told constantly that I was faking the program just to go home and they were absolutely right I hated that damn place, I hated everything about that place. Mingus Mountain Academy didn t teach me a damn thing except to never ever let my child go to place such as that under no circumstances. I m going to keep this short but the reason I ve decided to write a review on that defective program 15 years later because of a movie I saw in Netflix call The Program and it took me back to a really dark place of my life that I thought I thought I had buried in the back of my mind once I was released from the pits of hell. I just want to stay this if you honestly love and care for your child work with them, listen to them, support them, don t give up on them and under no circumstance allow your child to be sent off nor send them off to a place such as Mingus Mountain Academy at all. I now have a 11 year old daughter and today just happens to be her birthday and as I watch her grown into the beautiful child that s full off life, joy and happiness I would never allow a place like Mingus tear her down and steal her joy because I know from my very own personal experience what a place like this can do to a innocent child. My daughter also watched The Program on her own and asked me about it and if I thought the program was really like that and I had to tell her about my experience being in a place so similar to that smh it literally took everything in my body to hold back of tears from crying because I didn t want her to see break down because of my experience and the pain I endured while being there and her response was mom I never knew you had to go to a place like that I m sorry . All I ask is for any parents out there that is considering this as a option to help your child to reconsider it s not going to do anything but F your child up in the long run.

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