Give The Gift Of A Transformed Life

Since 1966, Edgewood Children’s Ranch has helped children overcome adversity created from divorce, abuse, poverty, and negative peer influences allowing them to live a purposeful and transformed life. Our program has helped thousands of children get a second chance for a better future.

Our current cost per child is $3,400 per month totaling over $40,800 per year to support a child’s education, housing, meals, and other various support services. Currently, over 86% of the children in our program come from cost-burdened homes and contribute only a few hundred dollars per month for their child to be enrolled.

You can help cover the financial gap between what our families can’t afford to pay and what it costs us to have their child in our program. By making a one-time or recurring gift you will help us continue to heal families and their children in our community.

Why Change Need To Happen

A study called the Adverse Childhood Experience Study conducted by the CDC shows that traumatic experiences in a child's life such as experiencing violence, abuse, or neglect or witnessing it in the home or community have a negative impact on that child's future. The report states that other types of factors creating trauma in children today include substance abuse problems in the home, instability due to parental separation or a parent being in jail or prison.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study demonstrates

Children who have experienced trauma are more likely to engage in early initiation of smoking, sexual activity, illicit drug use, and suicide.
Children with multiple traumas have significantly higher rates of heart disease, chronic pulmonary lung disease, hepatitis, depression, and diabetes.

According to the National Institute of Justice, abused and neglected children are

59% more likely to be arrested for juvenile crime.
28% more likely to be arrested as an adult.

There is hope for children living in and going through these traumatic experiences. Even though these children have had a rough start, there is potential for a positive future. Our child care facility and restoration home provide children ages 9-17 in Central Florida with love, structure, behavioral training, and education helping them to live a purposeful and transformed life. Children who complete our program have a better chance to finish school, respect authority, avoid destructive behaviors that have negative impacts, and have the tools to build a healthy family in the future. Our children now have hope for a successful future in their life. Healthier individuals and families lead to a healthier Central Florida Community.

Love a Kid Club

Edgewood Children’s Ranch was founded to help at-risk children and families nd hope. Your monthly support of our program allows us to succeed in this mission. By joining the “Love A Kid Club”, your support of $25 per month will help a child in Central Florida to have a second chance at a better future. Our goal is to reach 2,000 monthly “Love A Kid Club” supporters. This amount of support helps us to house, educate, and restore up to 60 kids’ lives per year in the Central Florida area. Your support in any amount will help us provide a loving environment where kids can learn to thrive and succeed in life and where families can nd healing.