Ophelia Project Programs
Ophelia Project Programs |

RAISE Boys: Reduce Aggression, Increase Self-Empowerment
This program’s curriculum guides boys from kindergarten through high school to develop positive strategies for identifying and mediating peer aggression. Other topics include normative beliefs, male gender expectations, friendship, leadership, and cyber bullying.

It Has a Name: Relational Aggression
The curriculum in this program guides girls from kindergarten through high school to develop positive strategies for identifying and mediating peer aggression. The 2010 revision of the Ophelia Project’s hallmark curriculum includes new activities, online explorations for girls (fourth grade through high school), and an updated introduction complete with a scope and sequence of curriculum objectives. Other topics include normative beliefs, gender expectations, friendship, leadership, and cyber bullying.

The Character Development and Leadership Program
Designed by Dr. Hoedel, this is a research-based program designed to improve character and leadership traits. A consistent weekly format utilizing ethical dilemmas, lectures, character movie segments, current events, role-model readings, basic skills, and expository writing assignments implemented to provide a framework for stable learning.

The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program
While most financial education programs focus on subjects to be learned, the NEFE program turns the focus on the students, so the curriculum is not about creating a budget, but creating THEIR budgets, THEIR financial plan, THEIR saving plan, THEIR investing plan. We will also use the Realityworks infant simulator.

RealCare® Parenting Program
This is a science-based program that accompanies the infant simulator and draws upon U.S. national teaching standards and selected state teaching standards for family and consumer sciences and health education. Topics include decision-making, parenting readiness, goal setting, infant care, and child development. The program’s curriculum was independently reviewed by several members of the National Parenting Education Network.

Street Smart Program
Through the use of the Street Smart Program, our organization intends that the youth we serve will increase their knowledge regarding safe sex practices, reduce their practice of unprotected sex, reduce their number of sexual partners, reduce their risks of teen pregnancy, reduce their rates of HIV and/or other sexually transmitted diseases, and reduce substance use. 

The program is used traditionally with homeless and runaway youth; thus it is congruent with our clients, many of whom have a history of being homeless or have displayed runaway behaviors in the past.  
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