Nexus - Woodbourne Family Healing

Nexus residential programs are designed to keep your family engaged throughout the treatment process and to ensure you're wrapped with all the support you need during this difficult time. While we're helping your child build skills and stability in their lives, we'll also help the rest of your family deal with the impact of trauma and mental health issues. Youth served July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 was 76.

At Nexus-Woodbourne, we provide children and youth (ages 0-21) that have a mental health diagnosis involving severe emotional and behavioral problems, safe, specially equipped foster homes that have the skills and resources to meet their complex needs.Our Treatment Foster Care families are trained and certified in medication management, crisis intervention, and trauma-informed care, and they're focused on helping foster youth build healthy relationships and develop valuable life skills.Kids in our Treatment Foster Care program are placed in foster homes that are specially equipped to handle their unique needs. We carefully match each child with a foster parent who can care for their unique needs. Our foster parents are committed to being change agents for kids and are certified for the Treatment Foster Care Program using the Child Welfare League of America-approved PRIDE curriculum. Nexus-Woodbourne case workers support families by providing treatment consultation and behavioral management support. Our treatment foster families collaborate closely with a case worker, the child's custodian, and other service providers to ensure the best care for each individual child.Together, we help set clear, realistic benchmarks and goals for each child and to help them achieve it. While in foster care, youth will attend a school appropriate to their needs, often The Nexus-Woodbourne School. From July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 Nexus Woodbourne served 53 youth in their Treatment Foster Care.

Our Woodbourne School, grades 6 -12, provides therapeutic educational services to males residing at the Woodbourne Residential Treatment Center and to students from the community who need a more specialized and intensive school program in order to be successful.The school offers a full schedule of classes and electives and is approved by the Maryland State Department of Education for full day and partial day special education, and regular education.When youth are given the chance to learn and grow, they gain a greater sense of confidence in their ability to be successful and a stronger hope for the future. Our Nexus-Woodbourne Vocational Program equips students with real-world, tangible skills they can use in their future careers and continuing education. Our students learn automotive maintenance, carpentry, and basic technical and engineering skills. This program provides a high-quality educational experience in a setting that's safe, supportive, and conducive to learning.

Our Nexus-Woodbourne Diagnostic Center serves male, female, transgender, and non-conforming youth, ages 14 18, who have been or are at risk of commercial sexual exploitation. We're committed to providing a safe environment - free from re-traumatizing stimuliwhere youth can develop trusting relationships and build coping skills that will help them continue on their path toward wellness. Treatment and clinical services are provided by licensed, trauma-certified social workers and counselors, health services are provided by licensed health care staff, and educational services are provided on-site with a focus on life and vocational skills development. Youth served from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023 was 20.