Agape Ranch is a forward-thinking and compassionate community-based solution to the foster care crisis facing America today. As an example of what we are confronting as a nation, by the time many foster children age out of the system, they have lived in an average of 12 foster homes. Children as young as 4-years-old may have had up to five foster parents. All too often, troubled or challenging children get passed on from one family to another, without ever being properly diagnosed and assisted with a medically-sensitive, individual treatment plan. Children and youth in these settings are unable to spend time with their siblings and are thereby denied what can only be described as a natural human right. Agape Ranch makes a concerted effort to keep siblings together, if not in one home, then within close proximity on our Agape Ranch 24-home property that is currently in construction.

An even more dire situation exists in the foster care system. America also currently faces a shortage of housing for youth aging out of the foster system, and over 90% of these youth who age out will either end up homeless, be trafficked, turn to prostitution, become incarcerated, or die within three years. Agape Ranch will feature multiple homes that will focus on housing and mentoring young adults in order to successfully launch them into adulthood. Agape Ranch pledges a long-term commitment to the children in the foster community to lower that shocking 90% average. It's a statistic that's simply unacceptable.

Agape Ranch's programs span the areas of prevention, foster care, foster family support & training, adoption, and aging-out youth.

Agape Ranch:
1. Serves children through their foster care prevention program called the CarePortal in partnership with local churches;
2. Provides gifts to foster and vulnerable children in partnerships with local businesses, organizations, and churches;
3. Cares for children through the Foster Parent Night Out and Foster Family Day Programs;
4. Trains respite care providers so that they can serve foster families through babysitting and overnight care;
5. Offers nationally acclaimed trauma-informed training called Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) to foster families and case workers;
6. Facilitates Foster Family Weekend Retreats; and
6. Building The Ranch for foster children, families, and aging-out foster youth.

Agape Ranch's firm commitment is that every foster child and young person receives the help that they need and deserve. The high-quality care Agape Ranch delivers will result in lifelong benefits. We can't and won't give up on a "troubled" child. In fact, they need us the most. Our success of this result is not necessarily measured by the high number of children we serve. Rather, it will be measured by the quality of care we provide to every child and youth who walks through our doors.