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Teaching Family Model Continues To Produce Success Stories

Posted on December 20, 2023

The Children’s Home has been committed to the application of the Teaching Family Model. Our Residential Care Team identified it as the best model of care to provide our children and youth with the needed tools and support to overcome their individual traumas in order to be successful. In less than three years after initially

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy at the Children’s Home

Posted on December 11, 2023

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) is a specialized type of therapy for our youth that is offered at both the Enterprise campus and the Madison Youth Ranch. EAP sessions for our Enterprise campus involve taking the children to a nearby location where they can work with the horses. In the case of the Madison Youth Ranch,

A Rich History of Serving Children

Posted on September 29, 2023

The Children’s Home has been serving children for 115 years and has expanded far beyond the original location in Enterprise. It began in 1908 as the Florida Methodist Orphanage with the purchase of one building, eight town lots, and a forty acre tract on beautiful Lake Monroe. The need at the time was for a

An Alumni Remembers How The Children’s Home Helped Her

Posted on August 22, 2023

In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was president and it would be the following year before the first U.S. combat troops would enter Vietnam. Bread was .22 a loaf and gasoline was .30 a gallon. Major happenings in 1964 included: The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, their first live television performance in the U.S. Muhammad Ali beat