Vinland National Center

We are dedicated to building full lives for people with disabilities. We provide substance use disorder treatment along with mental health & supportive housing.

Vinland National Center provides much-needed services to adults with cognitive deficits, including brain injuries and learning disabilities. On average every year, 70% of Vinland's clients are individuals living with disabilities due to brain injury. Vinland helps these individuals build full and rewarding lives through a whole-person approach to services. Those services aide in recovery from substance abuse as well as utilize mental health services, therapeutic exercise, and supportive housing. Vinland helps its clients adjust to the "new normal" of a life with cognitive disabilities. Vinland is nationally recognized for being the premier treatment center of its kind.

How Your Donation Makes a Difference

Every $1 spent on substance abuse treatment generates $17 in monetary benefit for society. Our programs enable people to become active members in their community. Graduates of our programs have reduced medical and legal expenses and increased employment earnings.

Vinland provides a variety of complementary care services to all of its participants. The therapeutic exercise program is the largest and provides each participant with a personalized fitness program designed under the supervision of Vinland's exercise physiologist certified staff. Vinland also offers traumatic brain injury groups, adapted mindfulness-based meditation classes, recreation activities, & living skills workshops. These services are not billable and we rely on donations to help cover the expense of running them.

One of Vinland's clients, Michael, says that one of the key components to his substance use disorder is that he tried to self-medicate his ADHD and dyslexia symptoms. He expressed how important Vinland has been to his recovery. He claims, "Vinland is like going to treatment in a Bob Ross painting!" He also stated that the people here are what makes Vinland so special, saying that the people (Vinland's staff) are "just extraordinary beyond what I could think is possible" adding "and, of course, there's nature - lots of it! Prairies and lakes and wood, dragonflies, frogs, big musky fish, deer coyotes, and even a giant Osprey nest with a protective mother." He ended his interview stating "It has been proven to me while here that one of the key therapies for [my issues] is not a drug, and it's free: cardio exercise! Lots and lots of it. That's where the magical therapeutic exercise department comes in at Vinland." 

   In 2020, 89¢ of every $1 Vinland received went directly to providing services for our clients.