Unfunded Need

Yellowstone Academy (YA) is the fully accredited K-12 school located right on YBGR’s campus. All children who attend school at YA are special needs students, many of whom also have sensory issues.

YA’s current communication system has a bell and alarm that are quite loud and can be extremely disruptive to these children with sensory issues. As a result, YA is seeking funds for a new communication system that would be quieter and much less disruptive.

The proposed new system would provide:

• quieter emergency notifications,
• silent staff notifications,
• increase coverage in all school areas,
• improve efficiency of kids transferring to classes, and
• decrease inappropriate interactions.

These benefits would greatly reduce anxiety for our school children and increase their capacity to learn and grow in a safer, calmer environment.

The total cost of the fully integrated school-wide communication system is $51,000 and we’re just $7,000 short of our goal!

With your help, we can better communicate with Yellowstone Academy students.  Thank you! 

Three years ago, Yellowstone Academy added the Pheasant Program to the Vo-Ag department. The boys and girls at Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch now get to take part in monitoring egg incubation, raising chicks, building pheasant pens, and continuously caring for the birds.

Raising the birds helps kids maintain daily obligations and learn more about an animal’s life cycle. Once the pheasants are fully grown, the birds are either released to wetland sites in the area or sold to individual landowners to replenish the pheasant population.

The program keeps about fifty hens and fifteen roosters as breeding stock for the following year’s program, and eggs and live chicks are purchased as well to supplement those hatched at the Ranch.

To keep this unique program running, we are seeking donor funding to help with the costs of transporting, housing, and caring for the pheasant population. 

Yellowstone Academy (YA) is the fully accredited K-12 school located right on YBGR’s scenic campus. All children in the residential treatment program attend school at YA in addition to youth in the Day School Program, special needs students from the surrounding communities who need a higher level of support to succeed academically.

Over 90% of the children in the Day School Program are considered low income.

The donor-funded YA Backpack Program allows YA teachers and staff to identify students facing food insecurity and send home backpacks filled with nutritious, easy-to-prepare meals for children and their families.

Help us continue to help children and their families receive food assistance by making a donation today, or call us for more information on how you can participate.