Change is hard. Whether it is a new job, a new diet, or a new place to live – a change can make you feel anxious and scared. Many of the kids coming to the Ranch for the first time might find the experience a bit scary because they don’t know what to expect. Do I have to share a room? What’s the food like? Can I call my parents and friends? What will I be doing at the…
The Ranch Ehrlo Society has just released a brand new orientation video for new residents. The video features former Ranch youth as actors and the narrator. The five minute video highlights treatment services available at Ranch Ehrlo, our unique schools, recreational activities, family involvement, and home life in the residential units. “The purpose of the video is to help young people…
Yes AWOLs (absent without official leave) do happen. The biggest thing in our organization to deter these is building relations with our youth. Building trust and relationships with our youth can really go a long way. I think our team at Rever House has done a great job doing that but we still get AWOLs. Building relationships with the youth in our care can help us talk them down if we get wind…
Sport Venture's Regina Outdoor Hockey League (OHL) has kicked-off its 20th anniversary year! We encourage everyone to participate this year and help us make history! To find out dates and times and to register, click here.
The Cree Language Program was introduced March 2011 and it is a partnership between the Ranch Ehrlo Society and the First Nations University of Canada. The program began as an eight-week course where 20-25 Ranch youth learned conversational Cree. The idea began with Reona Brass (teacher at Transition Centre), Darren Okemaysim (Cree Language instructor) and Nick Crighton (cultural coordinator at…
The naming of Lammer House was held on November 2, 2012 in Regina. Lammer House is the newest five bed residential care home in our programs for persons with developmental and intellectual differing disabilities. The home is named after long term board and senate member, Harvey Lammer. Harvey first sat on the board of directors in 1973. Currently he is a member of the senate. Harvey was also…
Sometimes I will have worked with a youth for only three months; sometimes I will have known them for three years when they leave the Ranch. Working this closely with these kids you grow quite attached. We had one boy that stayed with us for a very long time. He AWOLed and got involved with the gang life. I remember him from the time he was a little gaffer and the crazy things he used to…
Ranch Ehrlo’s Therapeutic Arts program has a new home and a new mandate to provide community programming. Now called Paper Crane Community Arts Centre, many qualified instructors & artists now have a creative space to house arts & wellness programs for Ranch Ehrlo residents and the community. The centre held an open house on October 25th, welcoming many individuals, businesses, and…
Nightshifts are tiring. They start at midnight and it doesn’t matter if you sleep all day prior to the shift; they are exhausting and take a toll on your body. First thing you do when you start the shift is check every room before the Youth Care Leader (or the YCW on weekend, see earlier blog anatomy of a shift) leaves you alone in the house. You open the bedroom of the youth and pop on a…
Mavis Goebel, a Senior Accountant, started at Ranch Ehrlo in 1998. Mavis had just returned to Saskatchewan after spending more than 20 years away with most of the time spent in the Yukon. When Mavis came to Regina she signed on to work for Manpower Temporary Services and was working at ISM Canada. It was during this time that she met co-worker Barb Pawson, the wife of the late Ranch founder and…
Partners in Motion, a Regina film company held a huge clothing sale at the end of September. The clothing was accumulated from their costume department over the past ten years. Ranch employee and Partners in Motion actor, Justin Folk, was invited to the sale and arranged for all the items not sold to be donated to Ranch Ehrlo. “There was basically $10,000 worth of clothing that was in…
So you found a new job and now you have to find a new pant size. Oh, the perk of an office job. These positions are sedentary and can be high stress. If you are sitting at a desk for hours at a time then you are most likely below the recommended level of daily activity. And stress can leave you feeling unhappy and fatigued, this can lead to overeating and after a long day at work…you can…
Her Excellency Sharon Johnston, wife of the Governor General of Canada, visited the Buckland campus and arena on October 9, 2012 and the Pilot Butte campus on October 11, 2012. Her main focus of the visit to the north was to experience the Equine Assisted Therapy Program and interact with the Ranch youth. She was welcomed and given a tour of the arena and the program by Heather Chow, arena…
During the weekday when kids are in school the staffing shifts are: 2 youth care workers (YCW) 3 – 11 p.m. 1 youth care leader (YCL) 3 p.m. -midnight 1 nightshift worker – midnight until 9:30 a.m. 1 housemom – 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. 1 unit manager - 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (same in summer) 1 caseworker - 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (same in summer) Weekends/summer 1 nightshift –…
Ashley Roszell started working at the Ranch two years ago as a youth care worker at Rever House. A year later she signed up to staff a brand new project helping youth transition to adulthood. The Youth Transition Program (YTP) is for youth ages 16 to 21 that require support to successfully navigate the transition to adulthood. Youth live by themselves and make the decisions in their life…
