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Causes: Group Homes, Human Services
Mission: Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
Programs: Texas boys ranch is a christ-centered, faith-based agency that provides services to children through three separate programs. The ranch or campus program provides care and treatment services for the emotional and physical needs of approximately 55 girls and boys (frequently sibling groups) who have been traumatized by physical and/or emotional abuse and neglect. Texas boys ranch is licensed to serve 45 children from ages 3 to adult. The children served by texas boys ranch are primarily within 150 mile radius. The children reside in a home-like environment and live in 1 of 4 different cottages with live-in house parents.
the child placing agency program licenses foster and adoptive homes for children, including siblings, that have experienced abuse and neglect. In 2016, texas boys ranch licensed about 23 families, served approximately 50 children and finalized 6 adoptions.
the texas boys ranch children's shelter served children, including siblings, typically as they enter the foster care system. Some children come to the shelter because their previous placement had failed for one reason or another. The shelter is a short-term placement for children so that they can be assessed and recommendations can be made for a more appropriate long-term placement. The maximum length of time a child can typically stay is 90 days. At the end of the tax year, approximately 94 children had been served.