
Hope • Healing • Growth
The Char Hope Learning to Live Ranch is a haven for nine women in recovery. We provide a family like environment focused on fostering
relationships and encouraging individual
growth and healing.
8:00 am Breakfast
Staff, Volunteers and Residents sit down together to enjoy a healthy breakfast featuring our own farm fresh eggs and other goodies.
8:30 am Morning Meeting & Mediation
At morning meeting, the community gathers to learn about the day’s goals, activities, and share the 5-day weather, and “farm sightings”. We end each meeting with an inspirational quote and serenity prayer.
9:00-9:30 am Morning Chores
Whether it’s collecting eggs, fieldwork, barn work, working the mobile framer's market, or working on a team, it inspires a sense of dignity, self-worth, and pride in doing for oneself and others—important prerequisites for healing. The social interaction, exercise, and skills building of the work program play an important role in a resident moving toward personal independence.
9:30 am Education Program
At this point you will be working with the staff on our Ag based and Equine curriculum. Which are all building blocks for your future.
11:00 am Recovery and Wellness Activities
This time brings the residents together to enjoy various activities that promote recovery, fitness, nutrition and diet, recovery support, life skills, and transition services.
12:00 pm Lunch
Everyone gathers for lunch and midday break.
1:00 pm Education Program
At this point you will be working with the staff on our Ag based and Equine curriculum. Which are all building blocks for your future.
3:00 pm Ranch Break
Each day the ranchers gather for refreshing drinks and snacks while talking about the day and enjoying one another’s company.
4:00 pm Relaxation and Dinner Prep
Each day at this time, the residents clean up and prep for a family dinner which is severed at 5:00pm sharp.
5:00 pm Dinner
Whether it’s family-style dinner in the dining room, or a cookout outside, the meals served are always prepared featuring the food we grow and raise on the farm, with an eye towards optimizing health for all on the ranch.
6:00 pm Evening Animal Care
Just like our residents are learning to care for themselves, they are also learning to care for other things that depend on them.
Outside Meetings and Recreation & Relaxation
There is always something going on in the evenings, whether it’s attending a 12 step meeting, a trip to the park for a community hike or swim, or to a local fair, relaxing in the living room watching a movie, reading a book, or playing games, or sitting around a campfire outside.
Our Residents know how to work hard and have fun too!
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Contact Information
For admissions and more information about
the Twin Stream Ranch contact
Leeann Bedsaul, Program Manager
Olivia Huber, Farm Based Educator
P.O. Box 181 • Street, MD • 21154
443-619-5888 • charhope@charhope.org