About

Since the Sheriffs of Arkansas founded the Arkansas Sheriffs' Youth Ranches in 1976, it has been a place to call home for more than 2,200 of Arkansas’s most vulnerable boys and girls. ASYR's mission is to address, remedy and prevent child abuse and neglect by creating safe, healthy, and permanent homes for children. As an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, ASYR is 100% privately funded. The ASYR offers much more than a warm bed and three meals a day. This transformative foster care organization is a place where boys and girls get a second chance to be a kid and a place where a child can grow into a loving, caring, and responsible young man or woman.