Oak Hill Boys Ranch: Bon Accord, Alberta

The Oak Hill Boys Ranch is a residential treatment program for emotionally and behaviourally troubled children and adolescents. Our principal objectives are to teach children to make safe choices and to encourage them to behave in an honest, accountable, and respectful manner toward all people. The Oak Hill Boys Ranch offers dynamic educational programs inspiring dignity, empathy, and moral standards associated with productive citizenship. Children are taught to understand how rights and freedoms are connected to social obligations, and are provided with plentiful opportunities to grow and make amends.

The Oak Hill Boys Ranch integrates traditional group, family, and individual therapies with personalized treatment plans. Psychotropic medications are utilized under the direction of child psychiatrists where necessary. Parents or significant others, are strongly encouraged to participate in treatment phases throughout the child’s placement. A multi-disciplinary team directs the treatment elements of service plans for each resident. The team consists of a chartered psychologist, education specialist, program director, as well as direct care staff, family, legal guardians, and social workers.

Psychological services are provided to children by an on staff, chartered psychologist. The psychologist meets with children on a weekly basis, and is involved in all treatment team meetings. Both individual and group therapy are provided to children.

Residents of the Ranch typically range in age between 12 and 15, and come from a wide variety of social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. Many children suffer from multiple categories of emotional disorders, and move to the Oak Hill Boys Ranch from broken foster care placements, group homes, family situations, or secure treatment.

Oak Hill Boys Ranch, Box 97 Bon Accord, Alberta, T0A 0K0
Phone: 780-921-2121; Contact Oak Hill Boys Ranch.