Living at the Ranch
Home at The Ranch
Peppers Ranch is a community of tenured, trauma trained foster families with a united mission to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect by providing safe, loving care for children in the foster care system.
If you are an experienced foster family ready to love bigger and impact even more lives then you are in the right place! Are you ready to expand your home to provide safe, loving care to additional foster children, specifically sibling sets, within the Oklahoma child welfare system?
Peppers Ranch is not a foster care agency. We welcome families being served by any one of the amazing foster care agencies in Oklahoma including DHS. These agencies offer our families even more robust supports to ensure the ultimate success of each youth in their homes! What’s not to love about that?
Preliminary Requirements:
Foster families need to be actively certified and have been fostering for 2 years or more in the state of Oklahoma to apply.
Foster families need to be able to care for 4 or more foster youth in their home.
Foster families must have at least one working adult in the household.
Applicants must be married, two couple household.
The Peppers Ranch Board of Directors is dedicated to ensuring the ultimate success of every child and family at the ranch. In addition to the State of Oklahoma’s foster care subsidy foster families receive, Peppers Ranch additionally comes alongside our families to provide monthly funding so that money is no obstacle in making the best decisions for your family and foster youth’s success.
We are honored to have you consider your application to live at Peppers Ranch Foster Care Community to continue in your journey as an Oklahoma foster family. We know this is a big decision.
If there is anything we can assist you with to help your family prior to application please don’t hesitate to reach out to any of our staff members within the Peppers Ranch Corporate Office. We will be happy to serve you.
Home Features
Foster families at Peppers Ranch are provided large custom designed homes to support Oklahoma’s Foster youth in their healing journey’s.
Homes at Peppers Ranch range from 3,200 - 4,400 square feet of thoughtfully designed living space for a foster and adoptive family to call home!
4 Bedrooms; 4.5 Bath with attached bathrooms and walk-in oversized closets in each room
Master Suite
Oversized Kitchen and Pantry
Office Space or Study Nook
Laundry and Mudroom
Oversized two car garage
Tornado Shelter
Fenced Backyard
Covered Front and Back Porches
Sprinkler System on Well Water
Neighborhood Features
Swimming Pool & Cabana
Playground
Outdoor Multi-sport Court
22,000 Sq Foot Education Center
Equine Facilities
4 Fishing & Small Boating Ponds
Grandparent Program
The Peppers Ranch Grandparent Program was established to provide on-site adult mentors, simulating a grandparent relationship to youth who often have a void of trusted adult relationships in their lives. This program provides our community with grandparents who come alongside our foster families to help pour into youth by providing emotional support, mentoring, and simply giving youth the love, time, and attention that they long for and that can’t be provided within their household. While sharing their wisdom and years of experience, you help guide our youth on a pathway of success and relational bonding.
FAQs
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No – Peppers Ranch foster care community is not a foster care agency and does not have a contract with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.
Peppers Ranch foster families each hold their own certifications directly with the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. Peppers Ranch administration does not oversee nor engage in that relationship between the foster families who live in the community and the Oklahoma Department of Human Services.
Peppers Ranch administration provides a community where like-minded families can live to provide the best of the best in resources and supports for the foster children in their care.
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Yes, just like a “normal” home, the children live with their foster families on a full-time basis.
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Yes, school-aged children attend public schools. Peppers Ranch is in the Guthrie Public School District.
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Oklahoma foster families first responsibility is to provide a safe, loving stable environment for the children placed in their care. During this time the Department of Human Services first seeks to place children back with their biological parents when safe and possible or extended family members. If family reunification is not an option, the foster parents that have been caring for the child/ren typically have the first opportunity to adopt the children.
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Peppers Ranch foster families make the decision that is best for their families as to the ages of foster children that they care for. Historically the foster families at Peppers Ranch have taken in children of all ethnicities, ages, genders and from every corner of Oklahoma. Children 0-18 years old are welcome.
