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These principles relate to and help maintain the moral integrity of our work. Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch directs all its activities, programs, its hiring practices, and develops its goals around these principles.

Mission

Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch provides quality mental health and education services that promote the emotional, behavioral, spiritual and physical development of children, adolescents and their families.

Yellowstone’s mission includes:

• A foundation based on traditional, Judeo-Christian values.
• Safe and secure healing environments providing broad ranges of individualized treatment for the clients in partnership with their families, to bring about a continuing lifestyle change encouraging trust and confidence so that life can be fully embraced.
• A system that is guided by a consistent philosophy of individualized treatment throughout the continuum of care.
• Family involvement leading to an understanding of the impact of children and adolescents experiencing emotional difficulties on the entire family through educating and training the family in healthy styles of communication and interaction.
• Caring, yet challenging therapeutic environments with an entire staff committed to meeting the educational, psychological, spiritual, behavioral and medical needs of children, adolescents and their families.
• Growing relationships with professionals nationwide.

Vision

Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch will be trusted locally and nationally as a leader in the field of mental health for valuing families and investing in children and communities.

Organizational Values and Principles of Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch

Yellowstone’s Organizational Values and Principles state:

• We believe that forming therapeutic relationships and attachments are foundational aspects of a healthy lifestyle.
• We believe that we need to recognize current developmental levels and help restore youth to age-appropriate developmental functioning.
• We believe that helping a youth develop a positive self-image through the healthy expression of his or her need for belonging, mastery, independence and generosity is a key to overcoming life's difficulties.
• We believe that addressing emotional difficulties often involves a re-education in living.
• We believe that an environment that focuses on positive behavior provides an atmosphere conducive to growth, development and positive attachments.
• We believe that encouraging positive peer relationships and developing peer accountability is a key to facilitate change and growth in youth.
• We believe that genetic or biochemical factors may predispose youth to emotional disturbance.
• We believe that by establishing rewards for positive behavior and setting limits on negative behavior, positive relationships and social functioning are enhanced.
• We believe that developing healthy moral and spiritual beliefs, values and experiences are foundational to overcoming life's difficulties.
• We believe that families are primary resources and partners in our efforts to help the youth.
• We believe that individual and goal-focused interventions for youth, provided in the least restrictive environment, are foundational for progress and success.
• We believe that significant people and social systems that have been a part of the youth's life are resources for transition and future success for the youth.

Trust, basic to the development of healthy human relationships, includes four primary ingredients:

• Respect - for all humans and their place in society.
• Empathy - to understand and share experiences, values and principles.
• Genuineness - which provides integrity to relationships.
• Concreteness - to ensure equal and accurate communication.

Trust is the cornerstone at Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, directing relationships with youth, families, staff and constituents.

Our goal is to create a warm, non-threatening therapeutic environment in which our clients can work through and resolve conflicts. Each of us must remain committed to our mission, being good stewards of the gifts and opportunities that come our way each day. We exist to meet the needs of our clients. It is important for each employee to understand that our clients provide our employment and, in fact, pay our wages. Yellowstone's clients are the reason we exist and are always to be treated with the utmost respect and compassion.

Values

The following list describes the principals which guide all decisions and activities directed at pursuing the vision and achieving the mission of Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch…

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

Hope is anticipation with confidence and trust.

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

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

Respect is an attitude of valuing others, caring about people and treating them with dignity.

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

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

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

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

Cultural Competence

Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch recognizes and respects the importance of diverse cultural identities and traditions, while supporting strong family life within multi-cultural communities.