The Buckeye Ranch

Exciting News!🌱 We are thrilled to announce that our Residential Treatment Campus in Grove City has been awarded a Grow Ohio Grant through Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Office of Nutrition to create a community garden! This hands-on project will allow our youth to engage with nature and nurture plants from seed to harvest. 🧑🌾Partnering with our residential cafeteria, the garden’s fresh produce will be used in meals across campus, allowing our youth to nourish their community in a truly special way. Visiting families can also participate, planting seeds for growth together! 🥕While the days may have turned chilly, the garden is beginning to take shape! This week, team members from Overmyer Hall Associates joined our Maintenace team to construct three raised garden beds and a composter.🌻 Their efforts have laid the foundation for a space of exciting therapeutic opportunities that will help our youth grow socially, emotionally, physically and educationally. Youth also started seeds to sow in the garden this spring at their Fall Festival! 🙏Thank you Overmeyer Hall Associates for generously giving your time to this project, and to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Office of Nutrition for the funding that has made this project possible. #CommunityGarden #TheBuckeyeRanch

🚧 Progress is moving full speed ahead with our Residential Treatment Services campus expansion! 👷♂️ As the youth mental health crisis continues to grow, we are expanding our Residential Treatment Services campus to provide added capacity for residential care in our community. We’ve partnered with Nationwide Children's Hospital to create a new Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) program on our Grove City campus. This program is already operational with 6 beds on our campus, helping higher acuity youth transitioning from psychiatric hospital care.💚 By late summer 2025, the campus expansion will upgrade community spaces to support additional youth on campus, as well as provide a new 57,000 sq./ft. building will offer an additional 28 Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) beds and 20 PRTF beds, expanding our capacity to support even more youth in need. Follow us for more updates on this exciting project! Want a sneak peek? Take a virtual tour here: https://lnkd.in/eaHBh7Hh #YouthMentalHealth #BuckeyeRanch #PRTF #NationwideChildrens #ResidentialTreatment

❌Myth: Once you’re licensed, you’re on your own! ✅Truth: At The Buckeye Ranch, our team puts together events to support #FosterParents and provide connection opportunities like the Back to School Bash we had for our foster families in August! But we don't stop there. Our dedicated Foster Care team offers robust wrap-around supports to all of our foster families, including: -Case management -24-hour support services - Additional training -Respite care -Transportation assistance -Foster-to-adopt licensure -24-hour placement staff We work hard to make sure you are never alone in your #FosterCare journey. To learn more about the supports available to foster families at The Buckeye Ranch, visit: bit.ly/SupportServices-TBR

🏡What is The Buckeye Ranch’s Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP)? We’re glad you asked! Our Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) uses a family-centered treatment approach to provide youth a dedicated space to heal while preserving family relationships. Our secure campus in Grove City provides 24/7 care comprised of an interdisciplinary clinical team to support youth of all genders and backgrounds. 🌟What QRTP can help with:🌟 We specialize in providing treatment for youth with histories of complex trauma.. The Buckeye Ranch supports youth through a variety of issues including: -Self-harm -Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -Suicidal ideation -Physical and verbal aggression -Defiant behaviors -Cautionary se*ual acting-out behaviors -Substance use (non-intensive) Program length is approximately 5-6 months serving 230 youth annually on average. And, our Residential Treatment Services campus is undergoing an expansion. Upgraded facilities and a new building on campus are set to open doors in late summer of 2025, providing an additional 24 QRTP treatment beds. To learn more about our Residential Treatment Services, visit: https://lnkd.in/eXB-6Y7q To support the expansion on our Residential Treatment Services Campus, reach out to Abby Maenle, Director of Development, at amaenle@buckeyeranch.org or visit: bit.ly/DonateNow-TBR

Join our executive team at The Buckeye Ranch!🌱 We are looking for a passionate leader to join us as Vice President of Community-Based and Education-Based Mental Health Services to help grow our community-Based and Education-Based Services programs. ✨ What You’ll Do: -Oversee our full spectrum of Community and Education-Based programs such as Intensive Family Support Program (IFSP), Functional Family Therapy (FFT), School-Based Mental Health Services, Early Childhood Development – and more! -Increase our capacity to serve children and grow our presence in school environments to provide mental health services, social-emotional learning, and trauma-informed educational care by expanding community partnerships. - Responsible for quality and financial outcomes for our Community and Education-Based Services. ✨ Who you are: -You have a master’s degree. -You have 10+ years of mental health experience, preferably in community and school-based settings -You have previous management and leadership experience. - You have an active Ohio LISW-S or LPCC-S. You have an active driver’s license and proof of auto insurance. Ready to make a lasting impact? Apply now and become a key member of a team dedicated to raising hope and providing healing for children, youth, and families! 💼 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eAvfJzMZ #HiringNow #EducationCareers #MentalHealthCareers #LeadershipOpportunities

⭐We are thrilled to announce that our President and CEO, Vickie Thompson -Sandy, was honored by the Ohio Children's Alliance with the Steve Plottner Award for Service in Child Welfare at the 2024 Ohio Children’s Alliance Fall Conference!🏆 📈 Since joining The Buckeye Ranch in 2019, Vickie has been an inspiring leader, championing the well-being of youth and families across Ohio. In 2023 alone, she spearheaded efforts to deliver behavioral health services and prevention encounters to over 19,000 youth and their families - a 20% increase from 2019! 🙌Through her dedication, Vickie has transformed The Buckeye Ranch, launching groundbreaking programs such as leading the team through the launch of Ohio’s first Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF), the Healing Alternatives for Youth (HAY) foster parent program, and our Care Management Entity (CME) program through OhioRISE. She also expanded mental health services for youth battling substance abuse with the launch of our Integrated Co-Occurring Treatment program and set up young learners for success with the launch of our Early Childhood Mental Health program. 🤝Vickie’s vision and unwavering commitment to raising hope and healing for youth and families is setting families up with resources and support necessary to fortify our community for generations. Thank you to the Ohio Children’s Alliance for this special recognition.

We are so proud of our team members who shared their expertise at the Ohio Children's Alliance Fall Conference! 🙌 💼Holly Jones (Senior Clinical Manager), Carol Johnson (PFSN & Training Associate Director), and Justina Nesler (Clinical Manager of Admissions and Engagement) shared how collaboration and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lens can improve outcomes for children youth and families in the child welfare system in their session ‘Team Collaboration to Foster Positive Outcomes for Families’. 🌎Kamilah Twymon, VP of Community-Based and Education Services, led an important discussion on how to create more inclusive, culturally responsive workplaces in ‘Culturally Responsive Leadership’. 🧠Dr. Andrea Weisberger (Director of Education-Based Services and Early Childhood Mental Health), and Jessica Shinnock (School-Based and Outreach Clinical Manager) showed how engaging youth through fun, hands-on activities helps teach Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills in schools in ‘Using Experiential Activities to Teach DBT Skills’. 🏘️Margrit Springer (VP of Integrated Care Services at The Buckeye Ranch), Rachel Bowen (Director of CME at The Buckeye Ranch), and Michael Sommers (Operations Director of Care Management at The Village Network) discussed how collaboration through OhioRISE is breaking barriers to mental health care and building stronger community partnerships to support youth and families in ‘Community Partnerships and OhioRISE Success’. 📣Dr. Pam Scott (Director of Professional and Clinical Development) shared a TED Style presentation on “Transforming Orientation into Moments of Connection” to provide attendees with learnings from building The Buckeye Ranch’s three-day orientation process, how it creates a stronger team member environment, and ultimately a better service experience at The Buckeye Ranch. Thank you to all our presenters for representing The Buckeye Ranch with passion and excellence!🎉 #TheBuckeyeRanchDifference #OCAFallConference2024

❌Myth: You must have parenting experience to become a foster parent. ✅Truth: Many great foster parents become licensed without having previous parenting experience. All you need is an open and loving heart, and willingness to learn. 💙 Our Foster Care team is here to guide and support you every step of the way. Begin your journey today at: https://lnkd.in/gdji5jUU

✨The holidays are a time for hope – and you can provide just that to youth in need this holiday season by becoming a donor for Hope for The Holidays! ☃️There are a few ways you can participate in our Hope for the Holidays program:☃️ Provide hope for a youth: Sign up to become a donor and get matched with a youth receiving services from The Buckeye Ranch and fulfill their wish list. Support the holidays for youth in our Residential Treatment Services programs: Help support a collective wish list from the youth (ages 12 – 18) staying at our Residential Treatment Services campus over the holidays. Gift a monetary or gift card donation: These donations will be used to provide support to new youth who enter our service continuum in November and December 2024 after the sign-up deadline. Sign up to support youth in our care by 10/31 and raise Hope for the Holidays by visiting: https://lnkd.in/gGr_FFNJ

Get to know our Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF)! 🌟PRTF supports local access to short-term, intensive residential treatment support for youth after psychiatric hospitalization discharge, offering increased family engagement to promote healing and stability for youth. In partnership with Nationwide Children's Hospital PRTF benefits youth and their families through collaboration between our community's top mental and behavioral health experts, and is the first program of its kind in Ohio. 🛏️This program is currently operational with 6 treatment beds on our Residential Treatment Services campus in Grove City. With the increased need for residential care in our state, we are also in-progress with expanding our Residential Treatment Servies campus to grow our capacity for both our Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP) and PRTF offerings to support even more youth in need. 👷Once completed, the expansion will upgrade community buildings on campus to support added youth, as well as provide a new 57,000 sq./ft. Building. Expected to open late summer 2025, the new building will offer an additional 20 designated PRTF beds and 28 QRTP beds. Learn more about our Residential Treatment Services programs here: https://lnkd.in/eXB-6Y7q Learn more about how you can support our campus expansion and take a virtual tour of the new building: bit.ly/PRTF-Facility #TheBuckeyeRanchDiffence #ResidentialMentalHealthTreatment #Healing