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Since 1964, West Ridge Academy (formerly known as the Utah Boys Ranch) has been helping struggling teens and bringing hope to young men, young women and their families. From the earliest days, the organization recognized the positive effect its program had on young men who were struggling academically, emotionally and socially. Today, the academy has served more than 25,000 students, has expanded to include separate and distinct campuses for boys and girls, and continues to bring hope and healing to families across the world.     The purpose of West Ridge Academy is simple: to send a child home with a change of heart. We are consistently able to do this by applying our foundational principles of Family, Spirituality, Integrity, Work, Service and Gratitude. With each student, a Master Treatment Plan is individually developed and implemented, created specifically for each student’s needs. Every Treatment Plan includes guidance and personal involvement from four teams including Therapists, Home Staff, Teachers and Spiritual Advisors.

The California School-Based Health Alliance (formerly the California School Health Centers Association) improves the health and academic success of children and youth by advancing health services in schools.  We envision a day when all of California's children and youth are healthy and achieving at their full potential. Since hiring our first paid staff in 2003, the Alliance has successfully grown to have an annual budget of more than $1,500,000 and thirteen staff.  We conduct policy work, promote the school based health center (SBHC) model, and assist SBHCs with program development to expand and strengthen school health services.  Our large network of collaborating partners includes 231 SBHCs, numerous school districts, federally qualified health centers and other providers, dozens of state and local policy organizations, and an e-communications network of more than 3,200 individuals. Our goal is to make school health centers an integral and sustainable part of the health care and educational systems. By putting health care where kids are – in schools – school health centers increase access to care and take health problems out of the classroom so that teachers can teach and students can learn.

Mountain States Children’s Home extends Christian services to wounded children in an effort to meet theirphysical needs, heal their emotional hurts, challenge their minds and teach them moral principles in order to reachthe goals of reuniting them with their families or preparing them for independence. This is accomplished using afamily model of care, strengthened by professional counselors and teachers.

All Our Relations goal is to build a seven bed residential hospice and resource centre in the Waterloo Region that will serve the specific needs of the dying and their families. The hospice will provide a tranquil setting in which life’s last journey can be taken in an atmosphere of dignity, support and love. All Our Relations will welcome all individuals regardless of age or the disease or illness causing death. The adjoining Retreat Centre (also referred to as a resource and learning centre) will facilitate the continuation of individual and community programs already offered by All Our Relations, such as the Living Well Dying Well Conference, speaker events with renowned authors and teachers such as Bernie Siegel MD and Deepak Chopra, and workshops such as The Symbolic Communication of the Dying with palliative care nurse and author Maggie Callanan.