Hill Country Youth Ranch

By creating a continuum of care for children and young adults ranging from intense psychiatric treatment to family-like homes for normalizing children, we are able to allow children to remain in the same family of caregivers as they heal from severe trauma and move to the least restrictive environment in which they can continue growing and healing safely, remaining as part of a family even through transition to adulthood.

We have built three campuses with spacious homes for up to 135 children and young adults at a time, ages 5 – 25. A wide variety of home settings allows for moving children into age-appropriate groups in spacious housing and with a broad array of programs through which their growth can be maximized. Charter schools on each campus promote strong academic recovery and advancement. This continuum of care with wrap around services allows us to continue working with children through various stages of healing without constant disruption. Children are able to move to different facilities within our campus and remain connected to the same family of caregivers.

We have great facilities and a professionally trained and certified staff capable of meeting the needs of each child who comes to us. Since its founding in 1977, the organization has continually built both facilities and developed staffing to reach a point of maturity in which we are adept at admitting children whom we can help through treatment, care and programming, with a goal of being family.

We have three licenses (Intense Psychiatric, Residential Treatment, and Residential Basic Care), plus accredited charter schools, all acclaimed throughout the state. We have become known as a model in Texas for providing a continuum of care that allows children to develop long-term authentic relationships with adults who know them through the ups and downs of growing up and become their forever family throughout life. We have recently added a license as a Child Placing Agency that allows us to develop community foster homes, oversee adoptions of children in care who can benefit from such a move, and begin caring for even younger children from birth to five years who need placement.