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Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch News

This page is designed to keep you informed of changes and announcements from Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch.

Donors reach out to youth with books

John and Bess Manesis have lived in the same home for 30 years. They were cleaning house this fall, preparing to down-size before moving and they found they had more books than they could handle…lots of books, but no where to put them.

DBGR Wildlife Club honored with award

The DBGR Wildlife Club is always busy on campus and in the community, but recently they added another award as evidence of their outstanding work in the state.

The club placed second in the O.W.L.S. contest offered by the N.D. Game and Fish Department for project hours.

The dedication of the addition to Dakota Memorial School, Minot Campus, was held Sept. 15. The event was made memorable by the attendance of donor-friends and family who contributed to help make this dream possible.

Generous funding was given to the Ranch from the family of Victor and Dorothy Young. Their son Andrew attended the event. The Minot Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors performed the ribbon-cutting for the Dakota Memorial School Annex, named in the Young’s honor.

Dakota Memorial receives accreditation

Dakota Memorial School recently received the results from its NCA Accreditation review, which included many positive remarks--some of which are noted below. This success is due to the Dakota Memorial staff’s quality work.

Rev. Keith Garness elected to Board

Rev. Keith Garness, assistant to the Bishop, N.D. Western ELCA Synod, was appointed to the DBGR Association Board of Directors at its September meeting.

Ranch hires new VP for Human Resources

Bill Sorenson began work in late January as Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch’s first Human Resource Vice President. Sorenson has extensive administrative experience in state, nation and international human resources, and has achieved a designation of Senior Professional Human Resources and is a certified Myers Briggs Administrator. Read More...

Rebecca Ulven named to Association Board

Rebecca Ulven, Ph.D., Walcott, N.D., was elected to a one-year term on the DBGR Association Board of Directors at its June meeting. Ulven works in the Fargo Public Schools as a school psychologist, where she has served for 12 years. Read More...

Dakota Memorial School Awarded NCA Accreditation

Theresa Meyers, Director of Education Services for Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Minot and Bismarck, has announced that Dakota Memorial School was granted continuing accreditation for the 2005-06 school year from the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI). The Association recognized the school on April 5, 2006, at its annual meeting held in Chicago. Dakota Memorial School joins 9,000 schools across a 19 state region that were honored for earning accreditation.

Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Three-Year Accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Accreditation for the following identified programs ...

Dakota Family Services

The community is invited to join us
at our open house and
ribbon cutting ceremonies.

DFS named charity of golf tournament

Bismarck Charity Golf Tourney
to benefit Dakota Family Services

A three-day Bismarck All-City Charity Open will be held Friday July 25, at Hawktree;
Saturday, July 26, at Riverwood; and Sunday, July 27 at Apple Creek golf courses.
Proceeds go to Dakota Family Services, which provides outpatient therapy services
for children, adolescents, adults, and families.

It is a community outreach mission of Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch.

The event requires having an established USGA Handicap. The open will include:

Championship Flight; Mid-Amateur; Seniors’ Championship Flight; and Flights.

Lead Sponsor $5,000 – 10 golfers
- Large signage all three days of the tournament, inside and outside!
- Employees are welcome to participate on the golf course as you see fit.
- Tournament booklet advertising.

Day Sponsor $2,500 – 5 golfers
- Large signage on the day of the tournament and banner signage each day.
- Employees are welcome to participate on the golf course as you see fit.
- Tournament booklet advertising.

Flight Sponsor $1,000 – 2 golfers
- Signage above your sponsored flight. Tournament booklet advertising.

Hole Sponsor $500 – 1 golfer
- Signage on your sponsored hole. Tournament booklet advertising.

Tournament Booklet Sponsors $350
Individual Entry $125
- Includes green fees and carts for all 3 days.

Green fees & carts include all three days for sponsored golfers & individual entries.

Portion of fees benefits Dakota Family Services.

For more information, call Dakota Family Services at 701.255-4020.

Become an Equine Angel

Equine Angel program

The Equine Angel program augments funding for the extra care our horses need—many of whom are elderly, as they too become “angels” to many of our children and help them to learn to trust again. Many levels of giving are available.

Paul Drees, certified public accountant and practicing public accountant with Drees, Riskey & Vallager, Ltd., headquartered in Grand Forks, was elected chair of the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Association Board of Directors at its annual meeting.

Ranch begins Dakota Family Services

Dakota Family Services is essential
outreach to community

Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch has begun its newest program, Dakota Family Services, which is a Community-based Mental Health Service organization.

DFS provides outpatient behavioral health services with professional excellence, Christian integrity, and compassion. The program provides North Dakota communities of Minot, Bismarck, and Fargo with a full range of quality mental health services, including psychotherapy, psychological and psychiatric services
for children, adolescents, adults and families.

Dakota Family Services brochure and contact information.

Alphabet Book published by the Ranch

Once upon a time...

These words are written in many of the best-loved stories of all times, and although The Alphabet Book doesn’t begin this way, it too, is destined to become a cherished keepsake of many.

The Alphabet Book is the brainchild of two committed teachers from Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch’s Dakota Memorial School, Minot, and their students.

Read the foreward to The Alphabet Book here.

BLT Day at the Ranch

2^nd annual BLT Day, Ranch Farmer’s Market

successful at the Ranch

Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch held its 2nd annual BLT Day and Ranch Farmer’s Market Saturday, June 2, at its Minot Campus.

More than 180 guests joined Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch in support of its endeavor to raise funds for a new Riding Arena and Horse Barn.

Three banquets were held March 15 – 18, 2008, in Fargo, Minot and Bismarck, N.D. Special guest speaker was Michael Richardson, Hico, Texas, inspirational and motivating speaker.

More than $6,000 was raised at the banquets.

The banquets were underwritten, in part, by sponsorships totaling $3,300 from

area businesses.

For more information about how you can help to support
this worthy project, call Al Evon, chief operating officer,

DBR Foundation, at 1-800-344-0957.

Ranch celebrates 55 years of service

Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch, a private, not-for-profit, is celebrating 55 years of service to at-risk children and their families beginning the summer of 2007.

Thousands of children and their families have been helped through services at this agency, which has evolved from a small program for six troubled boys in the Red River Valley, to an agency that has helped children from 36 states.

The 3rd annual BLT Day and Ranch Market

Rooted in Faith

was held Saturday, June 7,
on the Minot Campus.

The event raised more than $800 for

the Ranch's Greenhouse Program.

Guests enjoyed a BLT lunch,
tours of the campus grounds,
and bought their favorite vegetable
and flower plants.

For more information about the Greenhouse Program,
or to order plants,
call the Greenhouse at 701-857-4292.

DBGR celebrates Breakfast Program success

Dakota Memorial School is proud to announce the success it has had since the implementation of a breakfast program for its Day Program students. Approximately one-third of the students enrolled in Dakota Memorial School, Minot, N.D., reside in the community and attend classes on the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch campus. These at-risk students struggle with academics, addictions, behaviors and/or emotions.

Pigs n a Blanket 2006 great success!

Ranch youth learn to care by giving back

Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch Fargo youth spent the better part of six weeks on a very special project—creating designer pottery, which was put on silent auction during the Ranch’s Fargo Pigs ‘n a Blanket event this past September. Now they’re getting to “see” the fruits of their labor.