Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Residential Care and Summer Camps
Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch, 1813 Cecil Webb Place, Live Oak, FL 32060
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Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Residential Care and Summer Camps includes activities such as swimming, baseball, volleyball, canoeing, and arts and crafts. The program’s summer camping program is offered at three camp locations and is part of a broader network of residential care and summer camps.
• Ages: 3–15 years old
Founded in 1957, Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Residential Care and Summer Camps has grown into a statewide network of residential campuses and summer camps. The residential campuses operate under a four-pillar philosophy of Work, Study, Play and Pray, and youth live in homes with a married couple referred to as a “mom and pop.” The Boys Ranch is a co-ed campus with capacity to accommodate 82 boys and girls ages 3–20 and includes an on-campus job program for youth. The Donald Ralph Cooke School is located on the Boys Ranch campus and offers smaller class sizes, personalized learning plans, and access to alternative degree options, and it admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin and does not discriminate in its policies and programs. Youth Ranch Safety Harbor is home to sibling groups who need a place to grow up in a safe environment as a family and operates with a family model of a mom and pop in a cottage with the youth.
Staff at Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches are trained in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). The Polk Sheriffs Charities Scholarship House is a home for young adults transitioning out of state foster care or residential care programs and is designed to help them learn independent living skills, with a residential life coach living on campus who serves as a mentor and helps with firsts of adulthood such as opening a bank account or purchasing a vehicle. The Don Genung Training and Resource Center provides Trauma-Informed Care Services, including employee training, TBRI evidence-based trainings, and implementation strategies, and aims to equip law enforcement, teachers, biological, adoptive and foster parents, churches, and systems of care with these services. The Mission of the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches is to prevent delinquency and develop lawful, resilient, and productive citizens, and is also stated as preventing delinquency and developing resilient, productive, and law-abiding citizens. The Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches residential campuses are described as a nationally renown network of residential campuses, and the services offered to at-risk youth are described as nationally recognized services. Special events throughout Florida help raise funds to support the work of the organization.
Last updated February 15, 2026.
• Ages: 3–15 years old
Founded in 1957, Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Residential Care and Summer Camps has grown into a statewide network of residential campuses and summer camps. The residential campuses operate under a four-pillar philosophy of Work, Study, Play and Pray, and youth live in homes with a married couple referred to as a “mom and pop.” The Boys Ranch is a co-ed campus with capacity to accommodate 82 boys and girls ages 3–20 and includes an on-campus job program for youth. The Donald Ralph Cooke School is located on the Boys Ranch campus and offers smaller class sizes, personalized learning plans, and access to alternative degree options, and it admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin and does not discriminate in its policies and programs. Youth Ranch Safety Harbor is home to sibling groups who need a place to grow up in a safe environment as a family and operates with a family model of a mom and pop in a cottage with the youth.
Staff at Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches are trained in Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). The Polk Sheriffs Charities Scholarship House is a home for young adults transitioning out of state foster care or residential care programs and is designed to help them learn independent living skills, with a residential life coach living on campus who serves as a mentor and helps with firsts of adulthood such as opening a bank account or purchasing a vehicle. The Don Genung Training and Resource Center provides Trauma-Informed Care Services, including employee training, TBRI evidence-based trainings, and implementation strategies, and aims to equip law enforcement, teachers, biological, adoptive and foster parents, churches, and systems of care with these services. The Mission of the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches is to prevent delinquency and develop lawful, resilient, and productive citizens, and is also stated as preventing delinquency and developing resilient, productive, and law-abiding citizens. The Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches residential campuses are described as a nationally renown network of residential campuses, and the services offered to at-risk youth are described as nationally recognized services. Special events throughout Florida help raise funds to support the work of the organization.
Last updated February 15, 2026.
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