Staff + Board

The King’s Ranch Team

King’s Ranch started as a children’s home in 2007, licensed as a long term residential childcare facility through the State of Arkansas. Through our journey as a children’s home, we found a great need for a lasting solution to the child abuse problem and the trauma it causes in our world. Rather than functioning as a long-term residential solution to abused and traumatized children, we wanted to provide help and healing so these children could stay in their forever homes and thrive in a family. We now provide long term restoration by equipping and supporting families to help their children heal.

Our talented and highly trained staff is comprised of individuals working together to provide provide wrap-around support for families helping children heal from trauma. We serve families by providing education, parent coaching, respite care, community support, and more.

Meet Our Founders

Dr EddiE Cooper + Lee anne Cooper

Founders, Chairman of the Board, and Vice Chair

Lee and Dr. Eddie Cooper founded King’s Ranch in 2007 when God called them to open their home to children in their community who had been abused, neglected, and abandoned. The Coopers were married in December of 1990 and have six children—four biological children, Claira Alsup, Trey Cooper, Savannah McCarthy, and Leo Cooper as well as two children welcomed home through adoption, Jessa Cooper and Josiah Cooper.

Dr. Eddie Cooper is an Orthopedic Surgeon at NEA Baptist Hospital. He is also the Senior Pastor of Huntington Church, an inner-city church serving the most vulnerable in their community. Dr. Cooper serves as President of the King’s Ranch Board.

The Coopers live and work in Jonesboro, Arkansas where they enjoy time together along with their family, and being LeeLee and Pops to six “grands.”

Read The Founders Story