Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Residential Care Program
Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch, 1813 Cecil Webb Pl, Live Oak, FL 32060
About
The Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Residential Care Program includes activities such as swimming, baseball, volleyball, canoeing, and arts and crafts. The program operates on residential campuses that follow a four-pillar philosophy of Work, Study, Play and Pray, with daily schedules that include school, an on-campus job, chapel services, and recreation activities. At the Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch, each boy and girl participates in a structured work program and may attend school on campus or in the local public school system in the Live Oak community.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
Founded in 1957, the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches has developed a network of residential campuses described as nationally renown and offering nationally recognized services to at-risk youth. The Boys Ranch began as a residential care facility for troubled boys and is now a co-ed campus with the capacity to accommodate 82 boys and girls ages 3–20. Youth live in cottages where they grow up in a traditional family setting with a married couple, referred to as a “mom and pop,” in each cottage. Counseling services, family engagement, and unconditional love and support from staff are part of the program.
Staff are trained in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). The Donald Ralph Cooke School on the Boys Ranch campus offers smaller class sizes, personalized learning plans, and access to alternative degree options. The Donald Ralph Cooke School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin and does not discriminate on that basis in its policies and programs. The Mission of the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches is to prevent delinquency and develop resilient, productive, and law-abiding citizens.
Special events throughout Florida help raise funds to support the work of the organization. The Don Genung Training and Resource Center provides various Trauma-Informed Care Services, including employee training, TBRI evidence-based trainings, and implementation strategies to help equip law enforcement, teachers, biological, adoptive and foster parents, churches, and systems of care to create trauma informed communities.
Last updated June 1, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
Founded in 1957, the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches has developed a network of residential campuses described as nationally renown and offering nationally recognized services to at-risk youth. The Boys Ranch began as a residential care facility for troubled boys and is now a co-ed campus with the capacity to accommodate 82 boys and girls ages 3–20. Youth live in cottages where they grow up in a traditional family setting with a married couple, referred to as a “mom and pop,” in each cottage. Counseling services, family engagement, and unconditional love and support from staff are part of the program.
Staff are trained in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). The Donald Ralph Cooke School on the Boys Ranch campus offers smaller class sizes, personalized learning plans, and access to alternative degree options. The Donald Ralph Cooke School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin and does not discriminate on that basis in its policies and programs. The Mission of the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches is to prevent delinquency and develop resilient, productive, and law-abiding citizens.
Special events throughout Florida help raise funds to support the work of the organization. The Don Genung Training and Resource Center provides various Trauma-Informed Care Services, including employee training, TBRI evidence-based trainings, and implementation strategies to help equip law enforcement, teachers, biological, adoptive and foster parents, churches, and systems of care to create trauma informed communities.
Last updated June 1, 2026.
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