Club Opportunities
Camp Fire USA club programs meet a minimum of once a month with many meeting bi-weekly. Meetings are generally lead by two or more adults who have volunteered their time and skills and are held after school or on evenings or weekends.
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Self Reliance Programs

 

Building self-reliance in youth is one of Camp Fire USA Northwest Ohio Council’s primary goals and part of our mission to build “confident youth.”

Through carefully targeted, age appropriate programs; young people learn to handle threats to their safety and security and to take care of themselves in specific situations.

The Self Reliance program was established to increase the
independent functioning of youth at home, school, and in the community.

These programs include:

“A Gift of Giving”  Kindergarten - 6th Grade

A service-learning program that helps students learn and develop through active participation in developing a community service project.  The age-appropriate curriculum centers on generating ideas, gathering information, and planning and organizing a project that meets the needs of their community.  This course consists of six 45-minute sessions.

Teaches Caring, Citizenship and Responsibility

“I’m Safe and Sure”  Preschool – 1st Grade

This program focuses on personal safety and responsible citizenship through good decision-making.  Puppets are used to teach children to avoid being victims of crimes and other potentially harmful situations.  This course consists of six 45-minute sessions.

Teaches Responsibility and Citizenship

“I Can Do It “  2nd - 4th Grades

Children learn self-help skills such as  choosing healthy foods, becoming weather ready, being safe in public, escaping a fire, handling conflict, and being safe and responsible.  This course is made up of six 45-minutes sessions.

Teaches Responsibility and Citizenship

“I'm Peer Proof”  4th – 5th Grades

Teaches how to resist negative peer pressure and maintain positive friendships.  Games and role-playing make this a fun way to learn important lessons about making good friends as well as being one.  This course consists of six 45-minute sessions.

Teaches Caring and Respect

"I CAN DO" 4th and 5th Grades

I CAN DO is designed to help students cope with stressful life events using a problem solving method.  These stressful life events are parental separation/divorce, loss of a loved one, moving to a new home or school, becoming a "latchkey" child, and being "different" ethnically, physically, etc.  This course consists of 13, 45-minute sessions.

Teaches Caring, Respect and Responsibility

“I’m Taking Care”  5th – 8th Grades

This program teaches good babysitting skills to boys and girls.  It includes information and skills that young people need to know in order to be responsible for younger children such as safety, strategies for handling behavior, diapering and feeding infants, as well as ideas for entertaining children.  A workbook is included with this program.

Teaches Responsibility

“Portable Challenge Course”  5th– 12th Grades

Teaches a series of “challenges” designed to promote trust, self-confidence, teamwork,

and leadership.  Elements in this “challenge” are created to challenge mental rather than physical capabilities.  People of all imaginable weights and degrees of physical fitness have completed this course successfully.

Teaches Caring, Respect, and Responsibility

 

Whittier After School Program

Join us at Camp Fire USA's Whittier After School Program located at Whittier Primary School

733 Wyandot St.

Findlay, OH 45840

When: Mondays through Fridays

Time: 3:30-5:30pm

Cost: $25 for the school year

Youth will have the opportunity to work on their homework, participate in enrichment acitivities, visit the computer lab, enjoy free time, and recieve a snack.

Each week youth will participate in several activities that will include learning about their community, learning how to make healthy snacks, learning about science and the environment, and much more!

 

Fostoria Townhouse After School

Drop-In Center

Fostoria, Ohio

When: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of each week

Time: 3-5pm

Cost: Free to children of the Fostoria Townhouses

Camp Fire USA provides an after school drop-in center for the youth living in the Fostoria Townhouses. Any child five years of age and older is invited to attend, with the flexibility to enter and leave the program as necessary.

This program offers homework help, crafts and outdoor activities as well as continuous mentoring from caring adults. Many local community partners are brought in to share information and activities with the youth and their families. A variety of topics, from healthy eating to living a substance free life are discussed. It is the goal of Camp Fire USA  to provide the Fostoria Townhouse youth with a safe environment during after school hours.