NFP Classes

The Marriage & Family Life Office offers small-group class series in a sympto-thermal method (STM).  Each series includes four class sessions, course materials, personal chart review and follow-up. Series cost is $85 per couple. Fee is waived for engaged couples registered for a diocesan Joy-Filled Marriage Preparation program. 

• On-site: Columbus, TBA

Couple to Couple League, www.ccli.org
Couple to Couple League’s sympto-thermal method main class series is offered three different ways—live onsite, live online, and self-paced online.  All options include follow-up support, subscription to CCL’s charting app CycleProGo,  and Family Foundations magazine.  Course cost is $135 (including materials) plus shipping.

• On-site: St. Joseph, Dover. Jack & Judy Burnham
• Online: English/Español. Search/register for classes 

FertilityCare is a standardized ovulation method taught by trained allied health professionals.  This method is often chosen by women with known gynecological or infertility issues.  The Introductory Session costs $10, materials are $40, individual follow-up is $40 per one-hour visit. Costs may qualify as a MSA medical expense or be covered under medical insurance.

• On-site: St. Patrick Parish, Columbus, August 24, 10:00 am - noon register
• On-site: Westar OB/GYN, Westerville, August 26, 5:30 - 7:00 pm register
• On-site: Holy Family Center, Athens, September 17, 7:00 - 8:30 pm register
• On-site: Holmes Family Medicine, Millersburg, September 19, 5:30 - 7:00 pm  register
• On-site: St. Peter Parish, Chillicothe, by appointment. Judy Harness

Family of the Americas Foundation, www.familyplanning.net
Family of the Americas presents a simplified ovulation method that uses color stamps and stickers to record fertility signs.  Fees vary for materials and additional individual sessions. 

• On-site Español: St. Peter Parish, Columbus. Fr. Joseph Klee
• Online: English/Español NaturalMethod App

FEMM: Fertility Education & Medical Management, femmhealth.org
FEMM is an educational and preventative approach to healthcare for women. Women learn to identify their hormonal biomarkers as signs of health and fertility. This model of NFP is not faith-based, but is consistent with Catholic teaching. Local classes cost $25 each; online are $50 a session.

• On-site: Columbus.  FEMM Health Center
• On-site: Español: Christ the King, Columbus Virginia Victoria Blandon Fuentes
• Online:  Find a Course

SymptoPro™ Fertility Education,  www.symptopro.org
SymptoPro is a Sympto-Thermal Method of fertility awareness is based on changes in a woman’s cervical mucus, waking or resting temperature, and cervix. In-person class series consists of three two-hour sessions with a private follow up scheduled one month later;  online course consists of three self-paced sessions taken two weeks apart. Cost for a class series is $120.

• On-site: St. Mary Church, Lancaster, September 6, September 20 and October 4; 3:30 – 5:30 pm  Maranda Patzkowsky
• Online: register

Additional Online Options

• The Billings Ovulation Method, www.boma-usa-org.  Live online classes with an instructor using Skype, Zoom or Go-to-meeting.
• Learn NFP Online, learnnfponline.com. Self-paced ovulation method classes; teacher feedback is not included.
• Marquette Model, www.marquette.edu/nursing/natural-family-planning.  Client education in a method of NFP which includes electronic hormonal monitoring.