Services are open to boys regardless of race, color, or national origin.
The Ranch is located in a rural setting just outside of Coal Valley, Illinois, only a few miles from the Quad-Cities, a metropolitan area of more than 400,000 people along the Mississippi River. Arrowhead Ranch is funded through payments for the boys' care by placement agencies and through donations and grants. In the mid-1940's, community leaders became concerned that troubled boys, placed outside of their own homes, were having to leave the area for other parts of the state. It was thought that the boys would be better served if a facility was opened in Rock Island County. So in 1945 the Rock Island County Boys Farm School opened its doors.