Buckhorn served over 700 children and their families (infant to 21 years) in Ohio and Kentucky last year.  Buckhorn typically serves over 300 children and families daily.

Treatment Foster Care acknowledges that troubled children often need special care from trained and loving foster parents to help them work through traumatic life experience, so they can return home or be adopted.

Residential Treatment provides safe homes and effective therapy to children from ages ten to eighteen.  For the children who come to Buckhorn, this can be the last stop on the road that has included dozens of foster-home placements and institutional stays. Buckhorn's Residential Treatment program offers love, a therapeutic environment, and trusting, long-lasting relationships.  Buckhorn provides levels of treatment tailored to each child and family's needs.

Residential Care for Children with Chemical Dependency will combine Buckhorn's tradition of caring with substance abuse treatment.  The rampant use of drugs such as methamphetamines must be addressed by those who seek to improve the lives of suffering children and families.

Family Preservation/Family Reunification provides in-home services so children can remain safely in, or return safely to, their home familes. 

In 2003, children under the age of 18 accounted for 39% of the homeless population; 42% were under the age of 5, according to the National Law Center on Homeless and Poverty, 2004. Buckhorn's Transitional Living Program is working to reduce the number of homeless youth by providing them with a home and the necessary resources to improve their quality of life, self esteem, and skills to become self-sufficient

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