Building character by strengthening values.
Since 1975, Valley-Lake Boys Home program has been providing a safe, structured, home-like environment that allows boys to grow.
Valley-Lake brings it all home.
Residents thrive in Valley-Lake Boys Home’s clean, modern learning and living spaces.
Sometimes, the journey from adolescence to adulthood can be a rough road. When boys find themselves struggling – due to such obstacles as behavioral issues, substance abuse, legal problems or abusive or neglectful environments – it’s helpful to have steady guidance and compassionate support to help forge new, more positive paths forward.
Since 1975, Valley-Lake Boys Home has provided a safe, enriched and structured residential environment in which boys 12-18 can work through the challenges connected to their inappropriate and negative behaviors. In a peaceful, rural setting in west central Minnesota, our home serves up to 14 adolescent boys who live together, work together and learn together. Counselors work individually with residents to develop a program of growth, based on their specific situation and needs, within our unique RIVER framework:
Respect
Integrity
Values
Empathy
Responsibility
With the encouragement and mentorship of trained staff, boys are helped to reach their potential as young men and valued citizens in their own communities.
Valley Lake’s resident dog, River, serves as mascot and friend to the boys who live there.
Meet River!
Our popular newest "staff member' fills an important role as
loyal friend
listening ear
trusted companion
calming influence
enthusiastic cheerleader
My time at Valley-Lake Boys Home was a blessing to me and taught me lessons that have long carried into my adult life. I went in as a kid that had gotten in some trouble, and left knowing I had learned the right way to do things in my life. The relationships I gained with some of the staff are still intact to this day, and I appreciate each of them for the part they played in my life. The work this home does is wonderful, and the people that work there truly do care about making a difference, and it shows.
VLBH will forever be part of who I am and what I have done since my short stay there as a teenager, and I will be forever grateful to them and the people who impacted my life.
- Matthew