Program areas at Idaho Youth Ranch
Social enterprise: Idaho Youth Ranch (iyr) owns and operates 24 thrift stores, online book and collectible divisions, and a vehicle sales lot. These locations sell and/or recycle clothing, vehicles and other non-cash goods donated by the public to fund therapeutic programs for vulnerable Idaho Youth and their families. Iyr social enterprise locations provide jobs, benefits and career paths for over 400 employees. Stores serve as job training sites for iyr's youthworks! Program. Stores include a Ranch readers program, which has given over 462,000 free books and incentives for reading them to Idaho children. Iyr social enterprise recycles donated goods that cannot be sold, helping reduce the volume of waste entering public landfills in Idaho's communities.
Community services: iyr provides Youth and family therapy in both north Idaho and in southwest Idaho and teleheath mental health services statewide. Idaho Youth Ranch's therapy is targeted at Idaho's most vulnerable Youth and uses leading therapeutic practices to provide them the healing & hope the need. Blending proven evidence-based therapies; trauma focused - cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, and equine assisted therapy, Idaho Youth Ranch provides a treatment model unlike others, proven to heal Youth who struggle with acute, chronic, and complex trauma. Iyr's adoption services program in northern Idaho offers a full range of services including placement of infants, special-needs adoption, home studies and post placement supervision, international and interstate adoption, and non-agency adoption. Since 1983, iyr has practiced an "open adoption" philosophy, helping facilitate collaboration and cooperation between birth parents and adoptive parents over the child's lifetime, to the greatest extent possible.
Iyr operates a residential facility that houses Youth between the ages of 8 and 18 who are vulnerable due to abuse, neglect, family conflict, and/or abandonment; or Youth who are struggling with dangerous behavior, or conflicts at school or home. Services are tailored to meet each child's unique situation and may include animal assisted therapy, behavioral therapy, service learning, educational recovery, and life skill development. Reintegration services and ongoing access to therapy are a key part of finishing the job as Youth are brought back into their homes.