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A Texas-based inpatient behavioral program for teens.
For teens facing serious behavioral and psychiatric challenges, finding the right care environment isn’t always simple. When acute behavioral needs or co-occurring medical conditions are involved, traditional residential treatment centers and psychiatric settings often aren’t equipped to provide the level of support required. That’s why Nexus Health Systems developed the True North Program.
Combining 24/7 psychiatric and medical care, trauma-informed therapy, and concurrent, accredited education, we provide a structured environment in which teens can stabilize, process trauma, and build healthy coping skills. Families and referral partners nationwide trust our Texas-based hospital and RTC clinical placement options as paths toward lasting, whole-person healing. At Nexus Health Systems, we’re committed to mending minds.
The True North Program is ideal for teens needing specialized intervention after:
- Failed residential behavioral program placements
- Repeated crisis admissions
- Family or system breakdowns
- Discharges from other inpatient settings
Our goal is to equip teens with improved emotional regulation, behavioral stability, and self-awareness, thereby reducing the likelihood of future placements.
Matching teens to the right level of care.
We offer two distinct treatment environments within the True North Program, each designed to serve adolescents at different levels of acuity.
True North Program – Residential Treatment Center (RTC)
For adolescent girls ages 13 up to 18 with psychiatric and/or medical needs, the True North RTC Program offers a safe, clinically guided environment. Here, residents build coping skills, receive ongoing therapy, and continue their education through our TEA-accredited partnership. This supportive residential setting is ideal for girls who need long-term behavioral care.
True North Program – Hospital
For boys and girls ages 11 up to 18 with more acute psychiatric and/or medical needs, the True North Hospital Program provides an inpatient, med-psych environment. With 24/7 medical management, structured therapeutic programming, and TEA-accredited education through the University of Texas University Charter School, this setting is designed for youth who require intensive, specialty support as they make progress.
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Offering compassionate, individualized treatment.
The True North Program’s interdisciplinary team develops personalized care plans that simultaneously address the full spectrum of patient challenges. This integrated approach makes True North an exceptionally effective inpatient program for adolescents with specialty care requirements.
Program Features
- Interdisciplinary team integrating family medicine, psychiatry, and psychotherapy. (In addition to these specialties, the True North Hospital Program also includes pediatrics, physical medicine, rehabilitation, and skilled therapies.)
- 24/7 onsite nursing care and on-call psychiatric and medical provider coverage
- Regular psychiatric and medical evaluations
- Behavioral programming based on a positive reinforcement model
- Trauma-informed individual, family, and group psychotherapy
- Ongoing medication management
- Structured, safe environment for residents vulnerable to harming self or others EMDR-trained therapists
- Concurrent, TEA-accredited education
- Evaluations for school and community re-entry
Admission Criteria
- Requires intensive out-of-home therapeutic intervention
- Symptoms interfering with ability to function in significant life domains and/or activities
- Requires 24-hour supervision due to emotional and/or behavioral challenges that have caused safety concerns
- Exhibits significant maladaptive behaviors
- Has been unsuccessful in less restrictive environments
- Responds to clinical services and skill development within a structured setting
- Has the cognitive functioning to benefit from the clinical services
Referral sources include residential programs, psychiatrists, social workers, CPS/DCS, and social services.
Common Diagnoses
- Behavior dysregulation
- Major depressive disorder
- Anxiety disorders
- Trauma and PTSD
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)
- Reactive attachment disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Somatization disorder
- Seizure disorders
- Uncontrolled diabetes
- Spina bifida
- Acute infection
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Physical deconditioning
Help them find their true north.
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