BOTO’s Big Ride 2025

Raising Awareness for Adolescent Mental Health …
and Funds for the CCBS Fire Keepers Scholarship Fund!

From September 21st to 25th 2025, a team of cyclists representing Cherokee Creek Boys School (CCBS) biked 265 miles from Kansas City MO to St. Louis MO. Once again David LePere, our CCBS Executive Director (pictured above), led the team … and our CCBS mascot, BOTO the Bear (Be Open To Outcome), planned the route and and kept us updated as Team BOTO tackled the trail.

CCBS is a member of Choose Mental Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting adolescent mental health with a specific focus on providing access to residential care, which is seldom covered by insurance.

Being a member of Choose Mental Health allows us to provide our Fire Keepers Scholarship Fund to help students get the care that they need.

PLEASE NOTE: There is an established application process with Choose Mental Health to access scholarship funds. Donations from this page are to CHOOSE MENTAL HEALTH and they will be earmarked specifically to support families at Cherokee Creek Boys School.

• Either click the blue ‘Donate!’ button or scan the QR code to be redirected to our Choose Mental Health donation page.

• Once you’re on our Choose Mental Health donation page, click one of the yellow ‘Donate’ buttons at the top of their page to make your donation.

Donation via Check —

• Make Check Out to: Choose Mental Health
• Add to Memo Field: ‘Cherokee Creek Boys School’ (earmarks donation for CCBS)
• Mail Check to: Choose Mental Health; 870 W Center Street; Orem UT 84057

*Choose Mental Health is a 501(c)3 nonprofit and will supply donors with appropriate tax documentation.

NOTE: Choose Mental Health is the 501(c)3 that manages this Scholarship Account. Cherokee Creek Educational Programs is a 501(c)3 we are affiliated with, but it does not permit scholarships and does not have a doubling opportunity.