Ranch Ehrlo Society

About Ranch Ehrlo

Ranch Ehrlo, a non-profit organization, was founded by the late Dr. Geoff Pawson in 1966. It started as a single home for six boys with significant complex needs and grew to a multi-service agency delivering a wide range of accredited mental health and developmental services delivered in southern Saskatchewan and in and around Saskatoon and Prince Albert.

Our services include assessment and psychotherapy for members of the broader community, family treatment and reunification, early learning, vocational training, emergency receiving services, treatment foster care, affordable housing, group living treatment and education for children and youth with mental health, behavioural, and addictions needs,  group living care for older adolescents and adults with pervasive and complex developmental disorders, and community recreation and sports programs for at-risk youth. Our participants are referred from across the country.

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Community programs

Ehrlo Housing

Ehrlo Housing

Provides affordable housing to low-income families, individuals with chronic mental health conditions, and young people transitioning from care.

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Ehrlo Sport Venture

Ehrlo Sport Venture

Provides youth and families with control of, and access to, a variety of recreational programs and removes barriers to allow everyone to participate in sport.

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Ehrlo Early Learning Centre

Ehrlo Early Learning Centre

Offers high quality childcare to families in the city of Regina through the cooperation and involvement of parents, children, and caregivers.

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Ehrlo Counselling

Ehrlo Counselling Services

Provides a range of quality assessment, treatment, education, support, and community services that improve the lives of children, youth, and their families.

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Refer for treatment

We offer a variety of treatment services. Our group living programs serve youth and adults with complex needs on an individual, person-centered basis. Our family programs are in place to help families heal and learn to function together. Refer now.

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Group Living Services

All Group Living Services serve a specific purpose designed to accommodate the needs of our participants. The Ranch is responsive to issues of cultural diversity and makes every effort to design programs and services that reflect the population it serves.

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Family programs

We believe families function better when they’re together.
That’s where our family programs come in: we offer three unique community services with the common goal of helping families reach their full potential.

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6th annual powwow!

6th annual powwow!

Our 6th annual powwow will take place on August 24th on our Pilot Butte campus; beginning with a pipe ceremony and followed by a feast. There will be a grand entry and a family-style carnival…

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Social Work Month

Social Work Month

March is Social Work Month, March 6th started Social Work Week, and March 21st is World Social Work Day! Did you know that there are many social workers working at the Ranch in a wide variety of…

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12 years of recognition

12 years of recognition

Ranch Ehrlo has once again been chosen as one of Saskatchewan’s top employers for 2023. This is the 12th year in a row the agency has held this distinction. This special designation recognizes…

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Friendly neighbours

Friendly neighbours

Camille Huberdeau, personal support leader, has developed a wonderful friendship with the neighbours of Hawkwood House. “I’ve become very close with our neighbours. We’re more like…

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An amazing transformation!

An amazing transformation!

*Billy has made a complete transformation! He came to the Ranch when he was seven years old. He was nonverbal and had frequent aggressive outbursts. Kimberly Vaskor, housemother at Spruce Tree…

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ARC is important

ARC is important

You’ve heard of student representative councils, but have you heard of the adult version? Ranch Ehrlo has an adult representative council (ARC) that is made up of all the adults who are…

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Ranch receives comfort kits

Ranch receives comfort kits

Launched in 2013, the Ted and Loretta Rogers Foster Care Comfort Kit Program, through the Children's Aid Foundation of Canada, aims to significantly improve the experience of coming into…

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Youth blossoms

Youth blossoms

*Tommy was a self-confessed couch potato. He enjoyed just quietly playing video games. That has now all changed thanks to football. He started playing in November and hasn’t looked…

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Ribbon skirts blitz!

Ribbon skirts blitz!

In anticipation of attending a round dance in Regina, a staff member in the Family Centred Addiction Program (FCAP) decided to make traditional ribbon skirts for participants to wear to the event.…

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Get involved

As a non-profit organization, many of our programs rely on donations to continue to improve the services we offer our communities.

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