2025β2027 Mission Grant 8
Building a Place of Care
Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch, North Dakota β $60,000
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About This Mission Grant
Since 1952, Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch has touched the lives of more than 43,000 at-risk children and their families. They bring Christ-centered hope and healing to children who have experienced severe psychiatric, emotional, behavioral, and/or developmental challenges due to abuse, neglect, violence, and other heartbreaking traumas.Β
The Ranch is planning to build the Zurcher Cottage, a psychiatric residential treatment facility, replacing the current cottages. Within the Zurcher Cottage, they plan to create the Reflection Room, which will serve as a safe and calming environment to support the emotional, spiritual, and psychological well-being of the children. Not only will this room benefit the children, but it will also directly support the staff during stressful work shifts and allow them to be more effective caregivers to the children in their care.Β
This grant will help fund the construction and furnishing of the Reflection Room on the Ranchβs Minot campus.
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The mission of Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch is to help at-risk children and their families succeed in the name of Christ.
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Zurcher Cottage is a place of care that will transform childhood trauma into hope, healing, and resilience.
By partnering with Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch, the women of the LWML will play a direct role in creating a healing space to meet the complex emotional and spiritual needs of Ranch children and staff.
The Ranch is called to give each child the chance to meet Jesus, learn about Him, and discover how His love, grace, and peace can help them find and become their best selves.
At the Ranch, real ministry happens where children learn to see the world differently, feel the love of God through those who care for them, and begin to look to the future with hope.
Zurcher Cottage will be a healing space designed with the most current knowledge of trauma-informed care, emerging brain research, and our own experiences to create spaces that will not only keep our children safe and help them heal, but provide them with a comfortable home-like environment.
