Group home for teens in Phoenix, AZ: licensed therapeutic residential care.

Inside the Phoenix metro in Maricopa County, the boys’ residence at 8611 E Cholla St in North Scottsdale (85260) near Loop 101, and the girls’ residence on E Saddle Mountain Rd in Cave Creek (85331). The admissions line, (480) 485-3424, answers around the clock.

Both, by design. The setting is a group home, a real house with shared meals and staff around the clock; the license and the care inside are a residential treatment center’s, AZDHS behavioral-health licensure, daily therapy, psychiatric care, nursing, and accredited school on-site.

Placement here is clinical and arranged by parents, guardians, or treating clinicians. Foster and state placements move through the Arizona Department of Child Safety and its contracted network, a separate system; call and our admissions team will point you or your caseworker to the right door either way.

Family phone calls run 4:00 to 6:00 PM daily, weekly family therapy happens in person for metro families, and visits and tours are scheduled with the clinical team so they support the treatment plan. Being 25 to 45 minutes away is the point of a metro placement.

Ages 12 to 17, in gender-specific homes, boys in North Scottsdale, girls in Cave Creek. Separate houses keep group living low-pressure, and both run the identical clinical program under the same AZDHS licenses.

Yes, and you should tour anywhere you are considering. Walk the 3D tour on this page first, then call to schedule an in-person visit; metro families often tour the same week they first call.

Cost turns on your plan, because the care is licensed residential behavioral-health treatment, a covered benefit under most major commercial insurance. We verify your exact benefits, network position, and out-of-pocket before you decide anything. Start the coverage check →

Depression, anxiety, trauma and PTSD, ADHD and impulse control, substance use, bipolar disorder, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, plus low self-worth, mood and behavior disorders, anger, and evaluated psychotic and personality disorders. Intake evaluation confirms each diagnosis before the plan is set.

Accredited classes run on-site every weekday from 1:00, in small groups, and earned credits transfer on an official transcript. Discharge planning coordinates re-entry with your own district, from Phoenix Union and Paradise Valley to any district statewide, including any 504 plan or IEP that needs updating.

Length of stay is set clinically, by progress on the admitting condition, skills taking hold and family readiness, rather than by a fixed calendar. Discharge criteria are shared in week one, so you always know where the timeline stands.

The first call happens today at any hour, coverage usually answers the same day, the clinical evaluation runs within 24 to 48 hours, and move-in follows within days when the fit is right. Speed never skips the evaluation; fit decides everything.

Look Nexus Teen Academy up in the AZDHS provider registry linked at the top of this page, confirm the Joint Commission accreditation at qualitycheck.org, and check the LegitScript certification through its seal. Every claim on this page routes to an issuer you can query yourself.

Safety outranks placement. Call or text 988 or go to the nearest emergency room; a teen in acute crisis stabilizes at a hospital first, and our admissions team times the transfer so treatment in the home begins at discharge.