Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch | Projects and Partners

The 9 Organizational Values of YBGR

Safety: The condition of being physically, psychologically, socially and emotionally safe from pain, injury, or loss.

Hope: Anticipation with confidence and trust.

Relationships: Being committed to one another in a mutually respectful, dignified, healthy, and honoring manner.

Excellence: At YBGR excellence is represented by the practice of Faith, Hope, Integrity, Relationships, Respect, Safety and Stewardship.

Integrity: Doing what is right, putting the needs of others above your own, and living by the highest values.

Respect: An attitude of valuing others, caring about people and treating them with dignity.

Faith: Being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see, based upon our belief in God.

Values: The principles which guide all decisions and activities directed at pursuing the vision and achieving the mission.

Stewardship: The use of any resource or talent entrusted to YBGR to fulfill the mission and vision.

Projects & Partners

Our philosophy is to collaborate with other agencies, individuals, and corporations to provide the best care for our clients, their families and our community.

Yellowstone Foundation

Yellowstone Foundation, a separate 501(c)(3) organization, helps support YBGR youth through a full-range of fundraising options, including planned giving options. The Foundation raises funds to provide grants for immediate operational needs and special projects, and to grow endowment to provide long-term financial support.

Community Resilience and Outreach Program (CROP) Grant

Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Community Based Services is collaborating with Harlowton Public Schools and Wheatland Memorial Healthcare in Harlowton, Montana to create and provide a health-related curriculum to 7th, 8th and 9th graders to teach and promote resilience.

Using a tele-health delivery system, CROP’s primary goal is to prevent depression and suicide among our youth by promoting wellness and offering referral and treatment services in the school system. Via tele-video, a behavior specialist in Billings helps the classroom educator teach concepts that promote resilience such as self-acceptance, purpose, equanimity, self-reliance, and perseverance. It is the hope that at the conclusion of this three-year grant (2009-2012), the model will be replicated in other frontier communities, which by definition are sparsely populated, geographically isolated and typically have limited health and social services.

Unique partnership between Billings organization and rural MT school

Parenting with Love and Limits (PLL)

This program is a partnership between the Sixth Judicial Juvenile Probation office and Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch-Community Based Services in Livingston. Grant funding from the Montana Board of Crime Control helped bring this nationally recognized program to rural Montana.

Parenting with Love and Limits is the first evidence-based program of its kind to combine a 6-week parent education and group therapy program with four or more individual “coaching” (family therapy) sessions for adolescents and their parents. PLL was designed for youth between the ages of 10 and 18 with emotional or behavioral problems (running away, parental disrespect, chronic truancy, etc.).

PLL provides parents and their children with concrete tools and support. The program is offered free of charge to parents and their children. Please call the Program Director at (406) 222-6490 for more information.

YBGR Government Relations

Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch takes pride in our long standing public-private partnerships with agencies at the local, state and federal level. These include the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, the Montana Office of Public Instruction, and other states that refer and place youth in our programs and federal agencies.

Our Government Relations Department is responsible for the ongoing oversight, communication and relationships with these agencies. Important priorities include licensure, administrative rules, compliance and the development of new services and models of care through demonstration and research grants.

Government Relations works closely with state legislators, the Governor’s Office and Montana’s US Congressional delegation to advocate for important policy changes and fiscal changes to better serve at risk children and families and to support the infrastructure needs of our facilities and grounds.