The Department of Special Services within the Division of Public Safety offers free-of-charge self-defense classes to ALL Penn affiliates. These self-defense trainings empower individuals through communication and physical defense. Special Services provides separate courses for women and men, private classes, and classes for nonbinary affiliates. They also offer a special DPS Kids Safety Day to teach children important information about how to deal with strangers, how to call for help and how to stay out of dangerous situations, to name a few.
Special Services within the Division of Public Safety offers a variety of Self-Defense courses all free of charge to Penn affiliates. Each semester we offer a set schedule of courses and are always willing to schedule a private course for 8+ people. See below for course descriptions and registration:
BASIC SELF-DEFENSE: A 6 hour customizable course created specifically for Penn affiliates to empower individuals through communication and physical defense. Course can be gender specific or gender inclusive.
RAPE AGGRESSION DEFENSE (RAD): A 9-12 hour course, the RAD system is a comprehensive course for women identified affiliates that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction, and avoidance, and progresses to the basics of hands-on defense training. See more about RAD at: http://www.rad-systems.com/rad_basic.html
RESISTING AGGRESSION WITH DEFENSE (RAD for Men): A 9-12 hour course, RAD for Men aims to raise individual’s awareness of aggressive behavior, recognize how aggressive behavior impacts their lives, learn steps to avoid aggressive behavior, consider how they can be part of reducing aggression and violence, and practice hands-on self-defense skills to resist and escape aggressive behavior directed toward them. See more about RAD for Men at http://www.rad-systems.com/rad_men.html.
REGISTRATION:
Interested in take a course? Register using the form below. For further information or to schedule a private course, call or email Tracey Cardella, at 215.898.4481/tcardella@publicsafety.upenn.edu.
DPS Kids Safety Day:
Twice a year, Special Services hosts Kids Safety Day training sessions. This free course for children or grandchildren of Penn Affiliates teaches kids important safety practices such as how to stay safe when confronted with strangers, what to do if they are lost, and how to call 911 for help to name a few.
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