Arkansas Sheriff Youth Ranch - Batesville, Arkansas

Amanda

Pumpkin patch/Fall Harvest games and decorations were on par. Geared toward those with elementary school-aged children. Lots of activities and room to enjoy them. Snacks are available at the snack bar for a reasonable price. Great opportunities all over the grounds to get a family picture.

Aaron

This place may have changed by now but I still feel like I need to do this. I was a Troubled young man back when I stayed here. I had the worst time of my adolescent life here. I was bullied and picked on by the other kids. I was talked down on by the staff. I had kids pee in my clothes and steal money from the staff live in parents and then plant it in my room to make me think it was actually mine…. I was playing for the Pioneers and going to rodeos and stuff for the ranch but the minute I’d go back to the house it was getting punched in the face and more bad stuff happing. I was kicked out for Christ sake! All I can remember is being so overwhelmingly frustrated with this establishment and how they handled the situations. If things are the same I would not suggest letting anyone’s kid go here. I am now a grown man who is doing good and I have fought tooth and nail to get here! I have a good career and do what I can to help as many people as I can when I’m situations like I was. I pray for those who treated me poorly at this place and pray that it’s not like it was when I was there as a 13 year old child. Thank you. God bless.

rodney thomas

This place is not in anyway safe for kids a kid that was placed in this program i am helping because he was homeless. He described his expiernc there and that sounds like something I would never ever let my child go through. He was humiliated because of the way he dressed . Even tho he is married they thought he was gay because of the way he dressed. He recalls standing out side with a branch having to fight for his life because three other students one being the house staffs sun were going to jump him. He recalls seeing a student walk to the woods with a axe in his hand to end his life because of how miserable he was there and at 13 having to talk down this 17 year old from killing himself
He said the last memory he has is off information being falsified so that he could not return and after taking a series of polygraph in salt lake city and proving the claims to be false nothing was done with the "staff that witnessed" the alleged reason he could not come back . My advice if you don't want your kids to smoke cigeratess and think that as long as they fit in there safe keep your kids away from this place.

Krista Holt

My daughter is here and this place helped her so much. Her house parents are amazing people. This place helped her when she needed it.

JC Blackwell

I love the Ranch so much. This is a great place for children to grow up. The staff are family.

Dyana W

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