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 – 6th Grade

New! Harmony: Building Healthy Relationships: Harmony is an evidence-based curriculum that helps students develop the knowledge and skills needed to build healthy relationships, strengthen positive social connections, and make healthy choices. Through age-appropriate lessons and activities, Harmony encourages social-emotional learning and provides students and classrooms with tools that support positive relationships and healthy lifelong outcomes. Topics include: regulating emotions, conversation skills, active listening, the value of learning from peers, constructive ways to approach and resolve conflict and healthy relationship qualities.

*This curriculum includes four units, each with five lesson plans, and can be customized to fit your preferred timeframe, including the number of days and length of each session.

5th – 6th 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)

Emerging Relationships: This 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.  (1-2 days for 45 minutes)

Workplace Education

Open Arms is offering free community workplace education. This program will give employees the tools they need to know what to do when they
encounter someone who has experienced or is experiencing domestic violence or sexual violence.

Topics include:

  • Domestic violence and sexual violence explanations
  • Statistics
  • Impact on survivors
  • Signs in the workplace
  • Strategies on how to intervene in the workplace
  • Tips on how to support survivors

The program also introduces Open Arms as a valuable community resource for those who are affected by domestic violence or sexual violence.
The presentation takes approximately an hour to complete but is customizable to meet your workplace’s needs.

To schedule a presentation please contact openarmsfindlay@yahoo.com or call 419-420-9261.