Our Facility

Women Veterans In Crisis Whispering Oaks Ranch For Women Veterans and Their Children

Facility Characteristics and Land Use Overview

Homeless Women veterans

Welcome to Whispering Oaks Ranch, our vision for Women Veterans In Crisis Florida campus. Whispering Oaks Ranch is fashioned to resemble an Ocala horse farm which are prevalent in the area. This approach reflects the therapeutic movement away from institutional looking facilities and takes advantage of Ocala’s beautiful rolling hills, moss-covered trees and pleasant climate. Additionally, this horse farm environment promotes a significant reduction in client stress Levels and provides a perfect setting for our intensive mental health services, equestrian PTSD, organic farming, our 24-hour child care center and other programs.

Enterance to WVICRISIS
Service delivery entrance
Ranch for Women Veterans
Horse in front of admin building
Whispering Oaks Ranch Office
Veranda
Whispering Oaks Ranch Administration building
Admin building

Features

Horse Farm motif setting on 350 acres consisting of natural woods, semi-wooded and pasture areas. Phase I and II are designed to accommodate 250 female veteran clients and 35 children at maximum capacity. This includes 108 psychiatric and 18 crisis stabilization and intervention clients in the main facility, 130 clients in transitional housing and 35 children in our care center.

Other characteristics of the campus facility will also include:

Main facility on 30 semi-wooded acres

Care center and playground designed to provide 24-hour child care on 2 mixed acres

Greenhouse and organic farming on 75 open pasture acres

Horse barn with paddock and riding trails on 50 semi-wooded acres

Veterans’ Village (70 1bd and 30 2bd) transitional and permanent housing on 55 mixed acres

Phase I

Main building with modified ACLF design for 120 patient capacity, One secure-access wing of 16 private rooms, including 8 observation and 2 safety rooms, 24-hour Care Center and playground designed for up to 35 children, Commercial kitchen designed to accommodate 300 servings per meal, with 20% surge capacity, Paved walkways with walking trails and benches are lit by antique-style imitation gas street lamps lead to a conditioned warehouse in barn motif, with a logistics manager’s office. Phase I also includes a separate administration building featuring rooms for conference, audit and secure storage, Veterans’ Village 35 transitional 1-bedroom cabin homes for stable and/or leaving clients 15 transitional 2-bedroom family cabin homes.

Whispering Oaks Ranch Bedroom for Women Veterans
HUD 1 Bedroom Cabin
Whispering Oaks Ranch Inside the Bedroom for Women Veterans
Inside cabin view

Phase II

16-stall horse barn with tack room, paddock and office for our Equestrian PTSD program director, Large greenhouse sitting on 75 acres open pasture for organic farming, Large climate controlled barn with office for maintenance supervisor, equipment and supplies Veterans’ Village 20 transitional 1-bedroom cabin homes (in additional to Phase I) 20 permanent 1-bedroom and 10 permanent 2-bedroom Veterans’ Village cabin homes (HUD approved design)