Team Appaloosa

A recurring giving community for Idaho's most vulnerable youth

 

Team Appaloosa is a passionate group of monthly donors committed to bettering the lives of youth in Idaho through monthly giving. When you join the Appaloosa Team, you help Idaho's kids find a renewed sense of strength, freedom, and possibility. 

When you join Team Appaloosa, Amazing things can happen. Your monthly donation allows us to continue providing our critical services to Idaho's youth—giving them and their futures more stability. 

Family dysfunction begins to heal

By joining Team Appaloosa, you will be a part of a legacy that goes back to 1953 when Reverend James Crowe and his wife Ruby Carey started a boy's ranch in the desert outside Rupert. That ranch grew into a statewide multi-service agency that serves Idaho's most vulnerable youth. 

About Idaho Youth Ranch

By joining Team Appaloosa, you will be a part of a legacy that goes back to 1953 when Reverend James Crowe and his wife Ruby Carey started a boy's ranch in the desert outside Rupert. That ranch grew into a statewide multi-service agency that serves Idaho's most vulnerable youth.

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You will create healing and hope for Idaho's kids by providing emergency shelter, residential care, youth and family therapy, career readiness training, adoption services, and ongoing support for kids and families. 

 
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Teen counseling helps kids

You will help hundreds of kids every year get access to the proven therapist they need to transform the pain and despair of childhood trauma into hope, healing, and resilience. 

 
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Giving vulnerable youth resilience

Success Stories

Testimonials

From Our Kids & Parents:

"It is surreal to me that I start as a youth counselor at a boy's group hope tomorrow. As many of you know, I lived at...Idaho Youth Ranch for one year. I was 14 years old, depressed, suicidal, self-loathing, and lost. If it weren't for the adults that helped shape me into the woman I am today, I simply wouldn't be here. I am taking the time to thank the ones who looked past my flaws and saw potential in me. If I could do that for just one kid, my heart will be complete." 

 

"We got so lucky the first time"—referring to her daughter's suicide attempt— "I don't think we would have gotten lucky a second time." She has had her ups and downs, but I think this saved her life. Thank you!" 


For Our Team Appaloosa Members: 

"I was fortunate in the lottery of life. Others were less so, most often through no fault of their own. Supporting IYR is a simple way of recognizing life can be difficult; however, we can work to clear rocks from the path ahead and lift up others if they happen to stumble." - Wayne R., Boise

 

"[I support Idaho Youth Ranch] because they fill the gap with residential treatment that no other organization in Idaho does for youth. IYR incorporates research-driven treatment models to affect change with kids." Amy B., Coeur d'Alene

 

Idaho's Kids Need YOU!

Ready to join Team Appaloosa? Idaho's kids are waiting for your help.