Joan Bailey leaving Edgewood Children's Ranch | West Orange Times & Observer | West Orange Times & Windermere Observer
After two decades with the home for at-risk children, she is joining her husband in retirement.
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After two decades with the home for at-risk children, she is joining her husband in retirement.
Jordan first step foot onto the ranch in 1985. The ranch is a nonprofit organization that helps provide behaviorally challenged children and their families with a fresh start. It is a voluntary, live-in program, and both children and their parents have to agree they want to change. The children live in cottages with a set of cottage parents. Jordan, the son of a single mother who worked often to support him and his sister, said he was a troubled child. His father, an alcoholic, left the family when he was 2 years old. While his mother worked, he often was left home alone to do as he pleased.