Adapt of Texas
Adapt's mission is to provide services to persons with mental illness for whom traditional methods of treatment and rehabilitation have not been sufficient. Adapt provides psychiatric rehabilitation, supported housing and partial hospitalization services to adult and elderly individuals in Missouri, Texas and Illinois.
www.adaptusa.com
Artreach-Dallas
Artreach-Dallas, Inc. is the only organization in Dallas whose sole purpose is arts outreach to hundreds of social/educational organizations. Their mission is to ensure access to the arts and cultural events of Dallas for economically disadvantaged children and adults, the disabled and elderly.
www.artreachdallas.org
A.R.T.S. for People
Since 1985, A.R.T.S. (Artistic, Recreational, and Therapeutic Services) for People has provided a unique blend of interactive art, dance, music, expressive and recreational therapies that contribute to the physical healing and has helped restore the emotional, mental and social well being of individuals in Dallas/Fort Worth healthcare and community facilities.
Association of Persons Affected by Addiction (APAA)
APAA is a non-profit organization with the purpose of providing recovery support services to individuals in or seeking recovery from alcohol or drug addiction. They are a peer-driven Recovery Community Support Program that encourages and supports personal recovery by offering peer-to-peer Recovery Management / Recovery Services and promotes volunteerism within the recovery community.
Betty Ford Center Five Star Kids Program
The Five Star Kids program is offered to families on the Nexus campus, while their mothers are in treatment here. The program provides a safe place for children to learn that they are not alone and that there are other children and families who have similar experiences.
www.bettyfordcenter.org/children/texas
Captain Hope's Kids
Captain Hope’s Kids operates a children's resource room designed to distribute critical support items to children in homeless shelters. They serve approximately 10,000 children in more than 38 homeless shelters in the North Texas area each year.
Child and Family Guidance Center
The mission of the Child and Family Guidance Center is to provide quality, accessible mental health services to strengthen children, families, and communities.
Child Protective Services
The Child Protective Services Division of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services investigates reports of abuse and neglect of children. Nexus works closely with CPS to monitor mother/child relationships, empower clients with parenting choices and comply with requirements. Nexus and Child Protective Services share the goal of reuniting the family.
www.tdprs.state.tx.us/child_protection/about_child_protective_services
Dallas County
Nexus contracts with the Dallas County Community Supervision and Corrections Department residential services, juvenile probation services and the Treatment Alternative Incarceration Program through the DIVERT court.
Dallas Independent School District (DISD)
The DISD is the 12th largest school district in the nation. The district serves a 351-square-mile area and 11 municipalities. About 58 different languages are spoken in the homes of the district’s students and about 161,000 students were enrolled for the 2003-2004 school year. The DISD Hospital/Homebound Program and Homeless Services provides teachers onsite for the Adolescent Program and support services for residential clients’ children.
Day Resource Center
Located at 901 South Ervay, the center offers a wide range of services to the homeless including information and referral, employment and housing assistance, shower and laundry facilities, limited medical services, and a variety of social services designed to assist the homeless in the return to a stable lifestyle.
www.dallascityhall.com/dallas/eng/html/human_services.html#day_center
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI)
ECI is a statewide program for families with children, birth to three, with disabilities and developmental delays. ECI supports families to help their children reach their potential through developmental services.
Foster Grandparents Program
The Foster Grandparent Program pairs low income older adults with troubled, disabled or hospitalized children. Foster Grandparents give children 20 hours every week of warmth, kindness and attention at hospitals, homeless shelters and special care facilities. The program, one of the many programs of the Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas, provides assistance in Nexus’ child development center.
www.scgd.org/pages/fostergrandprogram
Galaxy Counseling Center
The Galaxy Counseling Center provides high quality, low cost counseling services for children, teens, adults, couples, and families. Their mission is to promote healthy family relationships and reduce the incidence of child abuse and family violence.
Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound’s mission is to provide programs and professional services, which promote the development of positive behavioral health and independence for individuals and families caught up in the cycles of substance abuse and addiction, criminal behavior and mental illness.
Housing Crisis Center
The Housing Crisis Center has served Dallas and surrounding counties for more than 25 years. They provide rent and utility assistance along with legal advice on housing matters.
Jonathan’s Place
Jonathan’s Place is a licensed emergency shelter providing temporary transitional living services for abused, neglected, abandoned and drug-affected children, newborn through
age 11.
Letot Center
Letot Center is a co-educational short-term residential facility that provides assessment, crisis intervention, emergency shelter care, foster care, non-residential counseling and referral services for status offenders. Programming is designed to reunite runaways with their families whenever possible and to prevent youth from committing criminal offenses or from entering the Juvenile Justice System.
www.dallascounty.org/html/citizen-serv/juvenile/institutional/letot
The Magdalen House
The Magdalen House is a free, non-medical detox center that offers women a safe environment where they can withdraw from alcohol abuse.
NorthSTAR
NorthSTAR provides behavioral healthcare for residents of Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro and Rockwall counties. Enrollees of NorthSTAR can receive clinically necessary mental health and/or substance abuse/chemical dependency services. Eligibility for the program is subject to residential, financial, and clinical criteria. Contact an admissions specialist at Nexus at 214.321.0156 to find out about eligibility.
www.dshs.state.tx.us/mhprograms/NorthStarhomepage
North Texas Food Bank
The NTFB procures donated surplus food and transfers it in usable quantities to over 400 nonprofit agencies in 13 North Texas counties including Kids Cafes, after-school programs, residential treatment programs, food pantries, emergency shelters, soup kitchens, senior citizen centers, low-income daycare centers and other social service centers. Nexus Recovery Center is a member agency of the North Texas Food Bank.
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Parkland provides high quality, low cost medical, hospital and other health related services to the indigent and medically needy of Dallas County. Nexus partners with several services offered by Parkland, including:
- Dallas Healthy Start
The mission of Dallas Healthy Start (DHS) is to improve perinatal outcomes, reduce infant
mortality, and pre-term (low birth weight) births by decreasing health disparities in targeted
areas of Dallas. Nexus clients have access to prenatal care at the hospital and Parkland
refers pregnant women with addictions to Nexus for treatment.
www.parklandhospital.com/patients_visitors/healthy_start
- Homeless Outreach Medical Services (HOMES)
The HOMES program is a combined effort of the Parkland Health & Hospital System and
the City of Dallas. The HOMES van visits Nexus on a biweekly basis, providing medical
services to adults, adolescents and children.
www.parklandhospital.com/medical_services/erOut_homeless
Rainbow Days
Since 1982 Rainbow Days has provided children living in high-risk situations with the skills they need to overcome adversity and stay drug free. They offer their curriculum once a week to the children at Nexus. Their award-winning model of prevention, Curriculum-Based Support Groups for Children and Youth, is based on proven educational practices and on the latest prevention research. Rainbow Days’ program helps us address the intergenerational issue of substance abuse with our younger clients.
Recovery Resource Council (formerly Tarrant Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse)
The council is the primary agency for substance abuse services in Tarrant County with a 48-year history of providing awareness, education, case management, assessment, intervention and prevention services to county residents.
The Stewpot
The purpose of The Stewpot ministry is to address the needs of the whole person, such as food, clothing, shelter, employment and self-esteem. In addition to providing the nourishing meals that its name implies, it protects the homeless from the chills of winter and the heat of Texas summer.
www.presbyterians.org/community.html
Texas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
The Texas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children was formed in an effort to protect Texas children living in volatile drug environments. Professionals from law enforcement, child protective services, the criminal justice system, medical and mental health professions, educators, and other child advocates have come together to make children a priority.
Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS)
The mission of DARS is to work in partnership with Texans with disabilities and families with children who have developmental delays to improve the quality of their lives and to enable their full participation in society. Nexus refers clients to the DARS Vocational Rehabilitation Program to help clients prepare for, find or keep employment.
Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)
The Department of State Health Services provides funding for prevention, intervention and treatment services through contracts with about 200 community organizations that serve more than 750,000 Texans each year. Nexus contracts with DSHS to provide residential services in the Adolescent Program and the Pregnant/Parenting Women with Children Program.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas is one of the country's leading academic medical centers, patient-care providers and research institutions. Nexus clients have access to a wide array of medical services offered by the medical school, including:
- The Clinical Trials Network
The Clinical Trials Network (CTN) was established to bridge the gap between addiction researchers and the clinicians treating addicted patients. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in joint collaboration with community substance abuse treatment programs in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Austin, and El Paso, has been awarded a 5-year grant by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to participate in this collaborative effort. Nexus Recovery Center is one of seven partner community treatment programs participating in the CTN with the medical school.
www.drugabuse.gov/CTN/
- The Community Women's Health Care Division
Educators provide a curriculum that includes six modules covering issues such as
self-esteem, making healthy decisions, violence prevention, and pregnancy prevention.
In addition, a nurse practitioner is at Nexus each week and provides gynecological care to
adolescent and adult clients in the Nexus medical clinic.
www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept22001/files/113702.html
- HIV Education Program
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School provides a team of HIV specialists
each week for HIV counseling and testing to those clients interested in this service. The team
operates through the Community Prevention/Intervention Unit and is able to refer clients to a
number of community services to meet their unique needs.
www.utsouthwestern.edu
- New Connections Parenting Program
The New Connections program is a comprehensive intervention program for young children
and families who are juggling the demands of parenting and staying clean and sober at the
same time. The program enrolls children age 0-5, who may be in any way affected by substance
abuse, with a parent or other committed caregiver.
www.swmed.edu/home_pages/mhfp/newcntns.htm
Volunteer Center of North Texas
The Volunteer Center of North Texas is dedicated to strengthening the community and its nonprofit sector by promoting volunteerism, mobilizing people and leveraging resources. For more than 30 years, organizations serving a myriad of causes addressing everything from animal advocacy to violence prevention have relied on the Volunteer Center as their source of volunteers who want to make a difference.