The Summer Work Program is one of the oldest traditions at Hill Country Youth Ranch. Our children are given the opportunity to earn money doing meaningful work to improve and beautify the ranches where they live. Working alongside adult mentors they learn valuable life skills, compete for the worker of the week and the team of the week honors and earn varying levels of pay based on job performance, attitude, and results. It’s a terrific program that helps prepare them for future job and career success. When our alumni return later in life to show their spouses and children where they grew up, they frequently credit the Summer Work Program as one of the key activities that positively shaped their lives.