Services

Educational Programs

The Buckeye Ranch Day Treatment Center dramatically improves the social, emotional, and academic development of its students at a fraction of the cost of secured residential treatment.

The Buckeye Ranch's Educational Day Treatment Center offers an alternative school to middle and high school students who have been expelled or dropped out of their traditional school. The program started ten years ago when The Buckeye Ranch partnered with one school system to implement a school-based day treatment program.

The idea of providing on-site therapy and counseling to middle and high school students who were suffering from severe psychiatric issues was innovative. As a result, the Ranch received an Ohio Best Practice Award for the day treatment initiative in 1996.

Today six Ohio school districts partner with The Buckeye Ranch to offer the educational program to their current or former students. And after completing the program, 91% of students re-enter their traditional school earning a "C" average or better. Without The Buckeye Ranch these students would likely be removed from their homes, hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, placed in the juvenile justice system or — worse yet — go completely without treatment or care.

More Space to Learn

The current Day Treatment Center is at The Buckeye Ranch's Cross Creek facility, which is now at full capacity with 20 middle school students, 12 high school students and 15 staff members. The cramped environment is detrimental to student treatment.

The Ranch has found a new home for the Day Treatment Center on West Broad Street and Hague Avenue. The building will give our students and staff the space and equipment they need to flourish as part of the new Buckeye Ranch Family Center. But this move will not be possible unless we reach our fundraising goals by 2011. You can help make the new Buckeye Ranch Educational Day Treatment Center a reality — donate now.

In addition to our Day Treatment Center The Buckeye Ranch also helps students on site at the following schools:

Alum Crest High School

Students with emotional disturbances, developmental issues or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, have the opportunity to enroll in the Alum Crest Columbus Public School and benefit from case management and support services from Ranch clinicians.

South-Western Alternative School Program

The Ranch collaborates with the South-Western City School District to offer an alternative education program. The South-Western Alternative Program (SWAP) supports eighth and ninth graders who have been identified as being at-risk of failing or dropping out of school. The program enriches academics with life skills training and therapeutic programs like horseback riding instruction at the Ranch.

Rockbridge Academy

Rockbridge Academy offers an alternative education program for students living in specific northwest Central Ohio school districts who are at risk of failing. Our Ranch staff provides clinical support and screening.

Helping Initiate Readiness for Employment Program

The Helping Initiate Readiness for Employment (H.I.R.E.) Program prepares disadvantaged youth the skills needed to seek and maintain employment.