From left to right Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale, Jefferson County Reserve Chief Deputy Michael Lee, Lori Johns (Director of Development for the Alabama Sheriff's Youth Ranches), Lee County Reserve Deputy Josh Datnoff (incoming ARSA President), Jefferson County reserve deputy Jon Adair (Outgoing ARSA President), and Autauga County Reserve Deputy Kevin Karr (New ARSA VP).
Outgoing Alabama Sheriff's Reserve Association President Jon Adair presents a $5,000 check to Sheriff Mike Hale for Alabama Sheriff's Youth Ranches to help provide Christmas for Youth Ranch Children.
The Sheriff's Ranches provide the children with a loving home on four Ranches located in rural areas around the state. The children live in a Christian family home that is as close to a normal family situation as we can provide. When a child comes to live on a ranch, the ranch takes on full responsibility for his or her every need including food, shelter, clothes and shoes, medical and dental care, and school supplies.
The Youth Ranch program was founded in the 1960s by the Sheriffs of Alabama to provide homes for children in need.
The program has grown and changed considerably over the past four decades, but the motto has remained the same: "It's easier to build boys and girls than to repair men and women." That is the goal - to help build children into responsible, productive adults before their home situations become so unbearable that they cross the line and break the law. Many of the children have been physically and/or sexually abused, severely neglected by their families, orphaned or abandoned.
For more information or to give a donation visit the website at www.sheriffsranch.org <http://www.sheriffsranch.org/> or call (334) 213-2071.
Lt. Randy Christian