This is an extensive program offering presentations to elementary school, middle school, high school and college students. We provide handouts in both English and Spanish. This program also offers outreach and training seminars for police and medical professionals, business and community groups.

For more information or to schedule a presentation, please call Shirley Gellatly at (949) 737-5242 x214.

Our newest community education program is focused on teaching teenage male athletes how to understand and control their negative emotions, how to deal with their anger in a non-violent way, and how to have healthy relationships with their family, friends, and girlfriends. This free, one hour presentation engages the crowd through an interactive story that leaves the audience with tangible information they can utilize in their immediate lives.

For more information please contact Robert Diaz at (949) 737-5242 x 215.

Jason's Story Brochure

We teach teens how to form healthy, non-violent relationships, how to set proper boundaries with their friends and how to recognize the warning signs of an abusive relationship. We provide a free, one hour presentation. For more information please call Beth Chapman at (949) 737-5242 x 213

Click here for the Warning Signs (PDF)

This is an innovative violence prevention program developed exclusively for Human Options. The program reaches elementary school children in their classrooms using special puppets, posters and activities. We teach children how to handle conflict in ways that do not hurt others, how to manage their anger and how to find help if they are being hurt. Engaging and adaptable stories and activities are presented in the classroom. For more information please contact Robert Diaz at (949) 737-5242 x 215.

This is a classroom presentation for pre-teens and teens teaching them successful, non-aggressive confrontational skills when faced with a situation involving a bully. Children need to feel safe and respected both at home and at school. We are prepared to work with school districts and parent groups to develop anti-harassment and anti-bullying policies.

The video, He Loves Me...He Loves Me Not, produced by Human Options, is based on a true story. This dramatization shows the key warning signs in an abusive relationship that include: displays of jealously, late night telephone calls, isolation from friends and family, verbal abuse and physical abuse. The video shows how abusive behavior becomes the norm; with abusers not realizing their behavior is unacceptable. We believe this 15-minute videotape has the power to help both women and men take the first steps to end the cycle of abuse in a relationship. Studies in the US indicate that between 15 and 30% of male high school and college students engage in some form of sexual or physical aggression toward women.