While working as a chaplain at the Fred Nellis Youth Authority in Whittier, California Mr. LeRoy Haynes came to believe there was a better way to help many of the troubled boys he served. He felt that intervention and treatment in a home-like setting were crucial if these young men were to become productive adults. So, in October of 1946, he and his wife, Jeanne, used their life savings to purchase the Reynolds Estate in La Verne, California. They opened the doors of LeRoy Boys Home to ten residents.

Today, the residential program at LeRoy Haynes Center encompasses 6 cottages, each housing 12 children. Clinical and day treatment services are provided to every resident. To learn more about the residential program here at Leroy Haynes Center, click here.

The staff at LeRoys is always trying to improve the care they provide, and in 2002, Thurber Cottage began a program to help older residents of LeRoy Haynes Center better prepare themselves to enter society as adults. In the year that has followed they have seen dramatic results, to learn more click here.

The LeRoy Haynes Campus also provides on-site nursing staff for our residents, click here to learn more.

If you are a County Social Worker looking to place a child, you can find our Intake Criteria by clicking here.