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. Residential campuses 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. Youth at the Boys Ranch may attend school on campus at the Donald Ralph Cooke School or in the local public school system, and each boy and girl participates in a structured work program.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
The program was founded in 1957. Its stated mission is to prevent delinquency and develop lawful, resilient, and productive citizens. Staff are trained in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). The residential campuses are described as a nationally renown network that offers nationally recognized services to at-risk youth.
Youth grow up in a traditional family environment with a married couple, referred to as a “mom and pop,” in each home, and the program emphasizes counseling services, family engagement, and unconditional love and support from staff. The Boys Ranch is a co-ed campus with capacity for 82 boys and girls and is one of three Youth Ranches residential co-ed child care facilities and three camping programs. The Donald Ralph Cooke School on the Boys Ranch campus offers smaller class sizes, personalized learning plans, and access to alternative degree options.
Youth Ranch Safety Harbor is home to sibling groups who need a place to grow up together in a safe environment as a family and is located in a cultural hub of Central Florida. The Polk Sheriffs Charities Scholarship House is designed to help young adults transitioning out of state foster care or residential care programs learn independent living skills in a safe learning environment, and a residential life coach lives on campus there and serves as a mentor, helping with firsts of adulthood such as opening a bank account or purchasing a vehicle.
Special events throughout Florida raise funds to support the work of the organization. The Don Genung Training and Resource Center aims to equip law enforcement, teachers, biological, adoptive and foster parents, churches, and systems of care with various Trauma-Informed Care Services, including employee training, TBRI evidence-based trainings, and implementation strategies to help create trauma informed communities.
Last updated February 15, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
The program was founded in 1957. Its stated mission is to prevent delinquency and develop lawful, resilient, and productive citizens. Staff are trained in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). The residential campuses are described as a nationally renown network that offers nationally recognized services to at-risk youth.
Youth grow up in a traditional family environment with a married couple, referred to as a “mom and pop,” in each home, and the program emphasizes counseling services, family engagement, and unconditional love and support from staff. The Boys Ranch is a co-ed campus with capacity for 82 boys and girls and is one of three Youth Ranches residential co-ed child care facilities and three camping programs. The Donald Ralph Cooke School on the Boys Ranch campus offers smaller class sizes, personalized learning plans, and access to alternative degree options.
Youth Ranch Safety Harbor is home to sibling groups who need a place to grow up together in a safe environment as a family and is located in a cultural hub of Central Florida. The Polk Sheriffs Charities Scholarship House is designed to help young adults transitioning out of state foster care or residential care programs learn independent living skills in a safe learning environment, and a residential life coach lives on campus there and serves as a mentor, helping with firsts of adulthood such as opening a bank account or purchasing a vehicle.
Special events throughout Florida raise funds to support the work of the organization. The Don Genung Training and Resource Center aims to equip law enforcement, teachers, biological, adoptive and foster parents, churches, and systems of care with various Trauma-Informed Care Services, including employee training, TBRI evidence-based trainings, and implementation strategies to help create trauma informed communities.
Last updated February 15, 2026.
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