Community Education

Hope House provides community education in Sauk, Columbia, Juneau, Adams, and Marquette Counties through presentations and training, written materials, resource tables, and awareness projects.

To inquire about community education opportunities, please email the Community Education Program Manager here or call 608-356-9123.

Community Presentation Topics

Hope House gives free in-person and virtual presentations and training to Health and Human Services, health care workers, law enforcement, counties' Extensions, faith leaders and church groups, school and campus staff, community organizations, civic clubs, nursing home and assisted living facilities, senior centers and dining facilities, cosmetologists, bars and other alcohol-serving establishments, businesses, foster parents, and community members. Length of presentations are flexible. Please click on this section's heading to see a list of topics.

Youth & College-Level Presentation Topics

Hope House gives free in-person and virtual presentations to groups of 30 or less students, from elementary through college level. Elementary presentations take at least 30 minutes. Middle school through college-level presentations take at least 45 minutes. For middle and high school students, Hope House recommends 3+ sessions to help students retain what they learned and to encourage attitudinal and behavioral change. Please click on this section's heading to see a list of topics.

Hope House Summer

Book Club

You're invited to join Hope House’s Summer Book Club on Facebook. Each month over the summer a new book is discussed, including fiction and non-fiction selections that may mention domestic violence or sexual assault. Free and open to all!

“The presenter’s openness with the students, the ability to have her echo my teaching (and vice versa) as a woman – students receive models then of both genders. She was very flexible. My group of students can be tough and pointed if speakers are unauthentic – this speaker did a nice job here. I think my students will be thinking differently about consent. Consent definitions are always eye-opening when children are raised in, what I still feel, is a rape culture. We would welcome this speaker and/or others from Hope House back next year!”

- River Valley High School in Spring Green