Child Advocacy
Our Child Advocacy Program provides individual and group support sessions with children who are have been affected by domestic violence.
Open Arms Prevention Programming
K-12 educational programs are available to classrooms and youth groups throughout Findlay and Hancock County. All programs are free of charge. Please call 419-420-9261 to schedule programming.
K-3rd Grade
Healthy Relationships: This program discusses what it means to have healthy relationships, specifically respect, communication, and boundaries.
(1 day for 45 minutes)
Body Safety Awareness: A program that focuses on protecting students emotional and physical safety. Through guided discussion and activities, this lesson discusses the importance of physical boundaries, expressing needs and wants and identifying a trusted adult when help is needed.
(1 day for 45 minutes)
Anger & Bullying: This program discusses healthy ways to deal with anger. It also includes the topic of bullying and how we can help ourselves/others.
(1 day for 45 minutes)
4th–5th Grade
One Love FRIENDLETS: A workshop created by the organization One Love that focuses on the complexities of friendships through 5 short animation video clips. (2-3 days for 45 minutes)
Body Safety, Education & Empowerment: A program that addresses personal boundaries, expressing needs, wants and feelings, identifying potentially unsafe situations and how to access help when needed. (1 day for 45 minutes)
5th–6th Grade
New! Emerging Relationships: This new program aims to empower youth with knowledge and skills to promote healthy individual growth and strong relationships. The learning objectives in this curriculum are associated with helping youth thrive and include topics such as having character, feeling confident, demonstrating compassion, being connected, and making a positive impact. (3-5 days for 45 minutes)
6th-8th Grade
Safe Dates: Rated as highly effective by the CDC, this program addresses attitudes and behaviors associated with dating violence. Some topics include defining caring relationships, dating abuse, how to help friends, how to deal with anger, communication and much more!
(3-5 days for 45 minutes)
One Love Couplets Workshop: This workshop discusses the differences between a healthy and unhealthy relationship through 8 short clip videos, highlighting some of the most common red flags in an unhealthy relationship. (2-3 days for 45 minutes)
9th-12th Grade
Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Educational Workshop: This workshop provides education on domestic violence and sexual assault and discusses different forms of abuse, warning signs, consent and how to access resources for help. (1 day for 45 minutes)
One Love Escalation Workshop: A powerful and engaging film-based workshop that educates individuals about the warning signs of an unhealthy and potentially dangerous relationship. (2–3 days for 45 minutes)
One Love #BehindThePost Workshop: A short film that highlights the 10 Signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships, and the role social media can play.
(2 days for 45 minutes)
One Love MVP Workshop: A film that looks at the challenges of navigating an unhealthy relationship. Main Character, Miles, tries to balance his basketball life with the possessive demands of his girlfriend, Jess. (2 days for 45 minutes)
One Love ‘Love’ Labyrinth: This film-based workshop demonstrates examples of emotional abuse and how it can be difficult for someone to leave an abusive relationship. (1 day for 45 minutes)