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Who We Are

Discover Rancho San Antonio

Rancho San Antonio provides a haven and safe zone to begin healing and engage in the process of change. Rancho is a multi-service non-profit organization that provides both traditional and non-traditional trauma-informed therapeutic services to youth and families. We are a community that is mission-driven and have provided quality services since 1933.

Our programs include specialty mental health, residential, outpatient, youth diversion, substance use treatment, housing for transitional age youth (TAY), creative healing arts interventions and complex trauma training. Rancho utilizes an interdisciplinary approach that encourages healing by providing a balanced physical, social, spiritual, psychological, and educational experience.

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow

risk · change · grow  

risk · change · grow  

risk · change · grow  

risk · change · grow  

risk · change · grow  

risk · change · grow  

risk · change · grow  

risk · change · grow  

Our Mission

Rancho San Antonio’s mission is to provide strength-based, trauma-informed, culturally relevant therapeutic services to youth and families in order to instill hope, foster resiliency, and create pathways for future success.

Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI)

Rancho San Antonio commits to being an anti-racist organization that continues to review systemic policies and procedures through an equitable lens, provide a culturally responsive staff training program to educate our teams, continue trauma-informed initiatives and establish a system of accountability to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion practices at all levels. Our commitment extends to embracing the LGBTQIA+ community, thereby fortifying our status as an ally.

Leadership

Our team is dedicated to helping the youth, families, and community. With members committing decades of experience of hope and healing, we are a family supporting the organization long term.

History

Rancho San Antonio is a place where people come to heal their lives. Rancho was founded in 1933 by the Catholic Big Brothers as a home to care for 18 male youth as a safe haven to those who needed a helping hand. In June of 1938, Rancho found its permanent home in Chatsworth, CA. The grounds sit on 19 acres and are often described as a place of calm.

Beginning in the 1950’s, the Knights of Columbus have provided invaluable fundraising for Rancho San Antonio to support families and youth. Most of the buildings on campus are the result of their generous contributions and support.

For decades Rancho was licensed as a group home for disenfranchised youth and became a premiere provider of services that helped transform lives. Many of these youth still visit today and recall fondly the care they received and call Rancho home.

1933

Rancho San Antonio was founded by the Catholic Big Brothers.

1938

Rancho San Antonio found its permanent home in Chatsworth, CA.

90 Years

Living the mission of Rancho San Antonio.

12,000+

Lives have been changed at Rancho San Antonio.

A community of healing and hope

A Working Ranch: Early days of Rancho in 1950’s
Iconic picture has hung in our Administration Building since 1962

We transitioned from a home for ‘troubled youth’ to a Short-Term Residential Treatment Program (STRTP) model of care and were granted a contract with the Department of Mental Health in December of 2018. This contract expanded our outreach to aftercare and community-based supports for youth and their families.

More recently, as state and federal regulations moved to encouraging prevention and minimizing campus based residential programming, Rancho expanded services to cover the continuum of care adding diversion and outpatient services to a wider array of clientele while continuing to provide residential care.

Our philosophy remains trauma informed, solution focused and is rooted in the vision of ‘Risk, Change, Grow’. The foundation of our treatment program is the trauma-informed Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC) model.

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