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Wayside Recovery Center Women's Treatment Center

Substance Use and Mental Health

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.

Residential

Primary Level of Care

Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.

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Provider's Policy

Wayside Recovery Center accepts all major insurance providers.

Wayside Recovery Center helps women, pregnant women, and parenting women heal from substance use and mental health challenges with care that fits their needs. The program offers gender-specific residential treatment, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), mental health therapy, and long-term supportive housing. A defining strength is its commitment to keeping families together and providing trauma-informed care designed for the unique needs of women.

Provide Personalized, Gender-Specific Care

Wayside’s approach treats the whole person. Patients work with licensed counselors, mental health professionals, peer recovery specialists, and nursing staff through individual therapy, group counseling, and wellness activities. Treatment plans build emotional regulation, life skills, and confidence, helping women and families move toward lasting recovery.

Heal in Supportive Residential Settings

Wayside Women’s Treatment in St. Louis Park provides gender-specific and gender-affirming residential care for up to 41 women, with an average stay of about 90 days. The center includes on-site mental health services, daily wellness programming, and a calm environment where patients can focus on recovery.

Wayside Family Treatment in Minneapolis is the only residential program in the Twin Cities where mothers can live with up to 3 children (ages birth–11). The program coordinates daycare or school transportation, offers parenting education, and supports pregnant patients, helping families stay connected while mom receives comprehensive care.

Access Flexible Outpatient Support

Wayside offers two intensive outpatient program (IOP) options: a telehealth program held on weekday evenings and an in-person program at its St. Paul office Monday through Wednesday. Both provide group therapy, individual counseling, and evidence-based practices such as moral reconation therapy (MRT). These programs give women a structured path forward while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.

AT A GLANCE

Center Overview

Location
3705 Park Center Boulevard, Minneapolis MN View Map
Primary Focus
This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions....

Treatment Focus

This center treats substance use disorders and mental health conditions. You'll receive individualized care catered to your unique situation and diagnosis, learn practical skills for recovery, and make new connections in a restorative environment.

Typical Program Length
90 days
Founded in 1954
72 years in business
Occupancy
31-50 beds
Conditions We Treat
Anger, Anxiety, Trauma
Substance Use We Treat
Alcohol, Co-Occurring Disorders, Cocaine, Drug Addiction +1 More
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(651) 242-5540

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Insurance Accepted

Provider's Policy: Wayside Recovery Center accepts all major insurance providers.
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Care Options

Levels of Care

Substance use and mental health issues can occur simultaneously or as primary conditions. Effective treatment explores how mental health conditions contribute to addiction, and vice-versa. Many rehabs treat substance use disorders and mental health conditions with personalized care plans.
Residential
Residential programs for substance use and mental health with structured care and 24/7 monitoring. Treatment takes place on-site, with behavioral health professionals often providing care in group, individual, and family settings.
Sober Living
Not Offered at This Center
Transitional housing designed to support individuals recovering from substance use disorders offering a safe, supportive and structured environment for practicing long-term sobriety, while reintegrating back into daily living.
Outpatient
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Outpatient care typically offers a range of therapies and medical interventions individuals can attend alongside daily life.
Virtual & In-Home Care
Not Offered at This Center
The delivery of therapeutic services utilizing technology such as video conferencing, online messaging or phone calls, allowing for flexibility, comfort and increased access to care.
Licensed Primary Mental Health
Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.
Co-Occurring Disorders
Substance use and mental health can occur simultaneously as co-occurring disorders. Treatment for co-occurring disorders involves therapy and other personalized interventions to address both conditions.
Treatment

Your Care Options

Specializations

Women
Drug Addiction

Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.

Who We Treat

Women
Women only

Women only

Women attend treatment in a gender-specific facility, with treatment delivered in a safe, nourishing, and supportive environment for greater comfort.

Approaches

Gender-Specific

Gender-Specific

Separate treatment for men or women can create strong peer connections and remove barriers related to trauma, shame, and gender-specific nuances.

Individual Treatment

Individual Treatment

Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.

Trauma Informed

Therapies

1-on-1 Counseling

1-on-1 Counseling

Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Family Therapy

Family Therapy

Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.

Group Therapy
Life Skills

Life Skills

Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.

Medication-Assisted Treatment

Medication-Assisted Treatment

Combined with behavioral therapy, prescribed medications can enhance treatment by relieving withdrawal symptoms and focus patients on their recovery.

Relapse Prevention Counseling

Relapse Prevention Counseling

Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.

Trauma-Specific Therapy

Trauma-Specific Therapy

This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.

Languages

English

Conditions We Treat

Anger

Anger

Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Trauma

Trauma

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Substances We Treat

Alcohol

Alcohol

Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.

Co-Occurring Disorders

Co-Occurring Disorders

A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.

Cocaine

Cocaine

Cocaine is a stimulant with euphoric effects. Agitation, muscle ticks, psychosis, and heart issues are common symptoms of cocaine abuse.

Drug Addiction

Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.

Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drugs

It's possible to abuse any drug, even prescribed ones. If you crave a medication, or regularly take it more than directed, you may have an addiction.

Aftercare

Support Meetings
Experience

Care Designed for Your Needs

Personal Amenities

Air-Conditioned Rooms
Private or Shared Rooms
Shared Bathroom

Amenities

Access to Nature
Kitchenette
Laundry Service
Outdoor Lounge

Special Considerations

Healthy Meals are provided

Healthy Meals are provided

Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.

Smoking and Vaping Policy

Smoking Allowed in Designated Areas
Vaping Not Allowed
Reviews

What people are saying

3.1
Average of 53 reviews

Treatment

3.1

Accommodations

3.1

Food & Nutrition

2.8

Value

3.0

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Allie

Reviewed 07/12/23

2.0

Review from Rehabs.com

Total BS. No one cares, everyone is checked out and clearly over their jobs. Can’t keep staff to save themselves. Super disappointing because it was a great program years ago. No sure what happened, but not worth your time or money (if you have private insurance)
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Trista

Reviewed 08/24/17

4.0

Review from Rehabs.com

Wayside from my experience it was very helpful,staff's are very understandable and easy to speak with..they helped me learn to except who i really am and if other's don't like it well it's not your problem..the counselors are wonderful they don't push you to open up their understanding..yes rules their are in their there for a reason..they had opened arms very kind and loving environment...
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LA

Reviewed 11/07/17

1.0

Review from Rehabs.com

There are so many things wrong with this place. I will write a summary: 1. Shutting people off from the real world. Yes, some people need to sever ties to get clean but the fact is, having people hide from their life does not aid in recovery. This program puts people in an intensive 3 month bubble and then essentially thrown out in the real world without proper tools and coping mechanisms in place because they've been isolated. Most people I know relapsed immediately. 2. Forcing people to get on food stamps to supplement their budget while the higher ups there are driving Mercedes. It's lowering and degrading. If you do not get on food stamps, you're forced to pay on top of your stay money for food. 3. People getting sober are going to have issues. Taking them to a psychiatrist and medicating them when they haven't been clean for a week is silly.. You should not have 40 women in line for "meds" every night. 4. Nasty staff. There's not much else to say on that. Most of the staff, counselors, food staff and medical staff are rude and lower the tone dramatically. 5. Treating women like children. Making them write essays when a person left the light on. I know they say it's for "discipline" and establishing rules, but ... really. Come on. Summary. The only way you will get clean is on your own and with the help of a supportive group - whether it be 12 step, friends or family. This program will not get you clean. The people that do stay clean after this program already made the conscientious choice to stay clean, and the Wayside House has very little to do with that.
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Jean

Reviewed 12/10/15

3.0

Review from Rehabs.com

Many strengths. They have the clients earn points to use toward purchases which is neat. They try working on life skills. They allow cell phones at times. Like many co-occurring facilities, Wayside does not treat mental health issues well. My daughter was discharged for the very reason that got her there, her behavior. I believe behavioral problems need to be treated and not get rid of the client who is in need of help. It is about impossible to talk with any staff other than the social worker during day hours and not on weekends.
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Anonymous

Reviewed 06/21/16

3.0

Review from Rehabs.com

great extracurricular activities, visiting hours/rules are fair, ample staff available for resident needs too many people that I know that have been there have lapsed so I dont believe the treatment is effective enough nothing more

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The following therapies are included: group therapy, 1-on-1 counseling and more.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Wayside Recovery Center accepts all major insurance providers.
The typical length is 90 days.
Wayside Recovery Center Women's Treatment Center provides residential, licensed primary mental health and more.

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