For children who have nowhere to go and have suffered loss of parenting due to abandonment, abuse, neglect and death, these words are more than just a cliché. They represent the beginning of a journey toward healing and wholeness. Situated among the horse and cattle ranches of Marion County Florida; The Ranch provides a rural atmosphere that is conducive to nurture and growth.
When it is necessary for a child to live apart from his or her family, we provide quality, compassionate care and remain focused on getting the child and family reunited. When reunification is not an option, our focus becomes the best option for permanency for the child.
Our staff and facility is designed to provide outstanding and comprehensive therapeutic, mental health and other appropriate services in a victim-focused and professional environment.
We provide care for children who have suffered from loss of parenting due to neglect, abandonment, abuse and death. "Cottage Parents" guide and nurture, help with homework, provide meals, oversee hygiene, and help ensure the children placed with them get to experience as normal a childhood as possible.
Heart of Florida Youth Ranch is commited to the safety, mental and medical health of all the children it serves.
Family life in residential living units is provided with quality of service and without discrimination on grounds of gender, ethnic orientation, sexual orientation, social class, age, disability, or religious beliefs.
Social services are provided to the residents, and where possible, to their families.
Educational programs are facilitated with emphasis on credit recovery as needed and available.
Spiritual guidance and enrichment is provided.
Staff teams provide responsive, child-centered working practices.
Licensed professional psychotherapy is provided.
Case management is provided to connect services as needed: academic, personal, life skills, and psychiatric medicine management.
Intake, discharge, and after-care planning is provided.
Behavioral overlay services with individual treatment plans are provided.
Connectivity with approved visiting resources is provided.
Every ranch needs ranch hands. Volunteer workgroups are a vital part of our ministry efforts. Our ranch hands provide general construction, maintenance, remodeling, painting, other necessary improvements.
Helping Hands volunteers are mostly local friends of The Ranch who are able to lend a hand on a regular basis with special tasks related to campus and life and special events.
There is a wide array of needed products for the campus including: Paper products, building supplies, food items, hygiene products, furniture and others
You can sponsor a child for as little as $20-50/month. This will assist us in providing for the daily needs of the child. Saddle Club Sponsors will be assigned to a specific child to be able to pray for them. You will be alerted to birthdays and holidays in order to provide special gifts. We invite you to challenge your friends to become a Saddle Club Sponsor.
You can be a source of support and guidance for 5-10 residents on a cottage for $100/month. You will receive notification of birthdays and holidays to provide special gifts for individual children. Our Bridle sponsors will receive a commemorative gift each year in recognition of their support.
Your one time gift of $1,000 or more will help provide for care of residents on all three resident cottages. Your investment will be a life-line of support that will able the HOFYR to both thrive in the present but sustain for the needs of tomorrow. Our Triple Crown Sponsors will receive a commemorative gift each year in recognition of their support.