Optimist Boys Home & Ranch

Short-term Resdential Therapeutic Program (STRTP):Our Short-term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP) has one location and we had one cottage at our Woodland Hills Campus serving STRTP youth. Clients are referred by Los Angeles County Departments of Probation or Children and Family Services. The residents receive intensive care, supervision and therapeutic services from an interdisciplinary care team. We follow the core practice model, services are trauma informed, and evidence-based practices are utilized.The agency served 13 youth in the STRTP program. Additionally, the agency provides CSEC Advocacy services and served 73 youth. Temporary Shelter Care Facility (TSCF):The agency also operates a Temporary Shelter Care Facility (TSCF) licensed for 16 girls at the Woodland Hills campus. The agency served 162 youth in the TSCF program.

Foster Care: The agency has a foster-adopt program. Social workers recruit, train and certify resource parents and provide follow up services to those parents as well as to the children placed in their care. Referrals are from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and occasionally from the L.A. County Department of Probation. Optimist also assists the County in the assessment process for their County operated resource families. The agency has an adoption program, enabling children already in its resource homes to be placed in permanent homes through the adoptions process. The agency served 62 children and youth in resource families.

Transitional Living Services (TLS): A new housing program for non-minor dependents in July 2023 and has already operated a housing program for LACCD students, the programs served 89 youth. Enhanced Care Management (ECM): A program that provides enhanced care management (ECM) services by contracting with Managed Care plans in 2023 and served 336 clients.