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Treatment Focus
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
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Treatment Focus
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.
Primary Level of Care
Offering intensive care with 24/7 monitoring, residential treatment is typically 30 days and can cover multiple levels of care. Length can range from 14 to 90 days typically.
Private Pay
You pay directly for treatment out of pocket. This approach can offer enhanced privacy and flexibility, without involving insurance. Exact costs vary based on program and length of stay. Contact the center for specific details.
Idaho Youth Ranch
Idaho Youth Ranch
About Idaho Youth Ranch
Idaho Youth Ranch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1953 that works to support vulnerable children and families across Idaho. Its mission centers on providing accessible, trauma-informed programs to nurture hope, healing, and resilience among youth. The organization has grown from its origins as a ranch-based refuge into a state-wide multi-service agency, combining therapeutic, residential, adoption, and support services for at-risk youth.
Innovative Approaches Tailored to Different Needs
The services provided span a broad spectrum tailored to meet varying needs. These include outpatient and family therapy, residential care for youth ages 11–17 through the Residential Center for Healing & Resilience (RCHR), crisis shelter via Hays House for runaway or homeless youth, emergency shelter, adoption services, and job-readiness training for teens and young adults. IYR also offers unique therapeutic approaches such as equine-assisted psychotherapy. For young people who need support entering adulthood, the YouthWorks job-training program gives hands-on work experience combined with career readiness education for ages 14–24.
Support Designed for Youth
The population served includes children and adolescents (roughly ages 9–24) who face trauma, behavioral challenges, family conflict, homelessness, abandonment or neglect, mental health issues, or unstable home environments. IYR also serves families seeking adoption or parents needing crisis counseling. The organization is recognized for its quality — its outpatient counseling centers, equine-therapy, shelter, and adoption programs hold accreditation from The Joint Commission, reflecting a commitment to safe, evidence-based care. As a nonprofit, IYR sustains its programs through a statewide network of thrift stores, donations, and community support — enabling long-term, flexible help rather than short-term, one-off intervention.
Center Overview
Treatment Focus
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.
Joint Commission Accredited
The Joint Commission accreditation is a voluntary, objective process that evaluates and accredits healthcare organizations (like treatment centers) based on performance standards designed to improve quality and safety for patients. To be accredited means the treatment center has been found to meet the Commission's standards for quality and safety in patient care.

Pricing and Program Length
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Levels of Care
Your Care Options
Specializations
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Children
Treatment for children incorporates the psychiatric care they need and education, often led by on-site teachers to keep children on track with school.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Who We Treat
Adolescents
Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.
Children
Treatment for children incorporates the psychiatric care they need and education, often led by on-site teachers to keep children on track with school.
Approaches
Evidence-Based
A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.
Holistic
A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Equine Therapy
Guided interactions with trained horses, their handler, and a therapist can help patients improve their self-esteem, trust, empathy, and social skills.
Eye Movement Therapy (EMDR)
Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.
Family Therapy
Family therapy addresses group dynamics within a family system, with a focus on improving communication and interrupting unhealthy relationship patterns.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Recreation Therapy
In recreation therapy, recovery can be joyful. Patients practice social skills and work through emotional triggers by engaging in fun activities.
Languages
Conditions We Treat
ADHD, ADD
ADHD is a common mental health condition caused by dopamine imbalance. Common symptoms include inattention, hyperactivitiy, and impulsivity.
Anxiety
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.
Bipolar
This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.
Depression
Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD is a long-term mental health issue caused by a disturbing event or events. Symptoms include anxiety, dissociation, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts.
Self-Harm
The act of intentionally harming oneself, also called self-injury, is associated with mental health issues like depression.
Suicidality
With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.