What happened to the Children’s Industrial Home and Jessie Dyslin Boy’s Ranch?
Children’s Industrial Home was both the first program we had (an orphanage) and our original name. The Boy’s Ranch was a home for boys who outgrew the orphanage, like the Girl’s Club was for young women. The Boy’s Ranch was located on property deeded to Children’s Industrial Home by Jessie Dyslin. The Board of Directors officially changed our name to GATEWAYS for Youth & Families in the mid-nineties. By then, most of our programs were day treatment or educational and while we had several residential programs and group homes for mentally ill children, we had foster homes instead of an “orphanage” – we ran a resource center for homeless teens instead of group homes for them and the Boys Ranch was a residential program for Juvenile offenders. In 2007, we relocated all of our programs to the Dyslin Ranch and dropped the name “Boys” from the title.
