VALLEY CENTER, Kan. (AP) — A ranch near Wichita that serves at-risk boys is expanding to serve more boys.

The Youth Horizons boys ranch near Valley Center currently has 12 boys in its residential program. They are taught such things as personal hygiene, caring for animals and how to behave in front of women.

The Wichita Eagle reports the program started in a house near downtown Wichita in the 1980s. Two houses were later built about 20 miles north of Wichita.

Construction is nearly complete on two more houses. President Earnest Alexander says $1.5 million of the $2 million needed has been raised. The organization is now trying to match a $250,000 grant by the end of September.

The new houses will allow the group to have 32 boys living at the ranch.