We offer a broad range of programs, from 1-2 hour introductory workshops to comprehensive 20+ hour series. Most IMPACT Safety programs are set up by partner corporations, nonprofits, schools, parent groups, churches/houses of worship, clubs, and other groups, and therefore are not open to the public.
This program teaches realistic interpersonal, emotional, and physical skills that addresses awareness, avoidance, de-escalation, and confrontation. The skills focus on both interactions with strangers and with those more likely to instill feelings of “un-comfortableness” – people we know. This course covers all aspects of interpersonal safety and individual choice – providing participants with embodied awareness, practice and tools for their personal toolbox.
Timeframe: 4 hours
Group Size: 14-25 participants
Investment: $90.00
Young women learn empowered self-defense skills necessary for a safer transition experience whether it be to college or another new journey. This workshop is specifically for young women ages 17-21 about to go off on their own.
Timeframe: 5-10 hours
Group Size: Limited to 14
Investment: $120-$205
Specially designed for teens, this training uses realistic scenarios to teach young people learn verbal, emotional and physical skills necessary to help them stay emotionally and physically safe. Healthy relationships,up stander behaviors and the context of interpersonal threats are addressed, so that young people can build an understanding of the world they live in.
The workshop covers basic safety information critical to youth: myths, realities, perception, intrusions and uncomfortableness in a wide variety of situations. Participants learn how powerful they are and what choices they can make to reduce vulnerabilities and increase their personal safety.
Timeframe: 4 – 14 hours
Group size: Limited to 16
Investment: $100-$360
IMPACT Safety can organize a program for a specific grade in your school, youth group or other youth services.
People with intellectual disabilities and other special needs are at a high risk of assault, abuse and bullying. IMPACT Safety has a history of successfully teaching personal safety and self-protection skills to people with physical, emotional, or cognitive disabilities, including loss of vision, hearing, or mobility. IMPACT’s goal is to provide participants with the tools to make choices and take action that will increase their emotional and physical safety. By acknowledging and respecting individual challenges, people with disabilities increase their confidence in different situations.
This program teaches a full spectrum of personal safety skills that include:
Timeframe: 2-18 hours
Group Size: 12 participants
Investment: Dependent on program length. Contact IMPACT Safety for more details.
The senior community often face various issues related to vulnerability – both emotional and physical, neglect, abuse and fraud. IMPACT programs for the seniors address these concerns in ways that respond to these fears; teach skills that can enhance confidence, both emotionally and physically, and provide resources for continued help.
Programming for seniors can take place in dinning centers, with community groups, as part of wellness and health activities or as stand alone gatherings.
Timeframe: 1-4 hours
Group Size: Unlimited
Investment: Cost is dependent on length and outcomes.
Young women learn empowered self-defense skills necessary for a safer transition experience whether it be to college or another new journey. This workshop is specifically for young women ages 17-21 about to go off on their own.
Timeframe: 5-10 hours
Group Size: Limited to 14
Investment: $120-$205
This 1 to 1-1/2-hour interactive workshop addresses myths and misconceptions about personal safety and violence, and teaches facts and suggestions that can increase effective safety practices and confidence. Participants will learn what assailants are looking for and how to avoid being targeted through awareness skills, body language, and using one’s voice. They will have the opportunity to learn and practice nonverbal body language and verbal strategies.
Timeframe: 1 to 1-1/2-hours
Group size: Unlimited
Investment: $350
Safety 101
Description: Designed for staff of any workplace to provide an overview of key personal safety attributes, a look at how the organization supports and communicates its concerns for employee safety, the influence of socialization on interpersonal safety habits and beliefs and practice in awareness of common interpersonal safety concerns.
Timeframe: 2 hours
Group size: Limited to 20
Investment: $700 / Discounts available for multiple workshops scheduled.
Safety 102
Description: Builds on lessons learned in Safety 101. Further develops basic skills in awareness, verbal strategies, space and distance when addressing common interpersonal safety concerns. Includes components of workplace harassment, workplace violence and supervision.
Timeframe: 2 hours
Group size: Limited to 20
Investment: $700 / Discounts available for multiple workshops scheduled.
This training is built upon the Four As of Safety: Awareness, Assessment, Anticipation, and Action.
Workers trained in these concepts are better able to pay attention to their environment, recognize threat or danger earlier, and employ techniques to de-escalate a situation.The ultimate outcome is achieved—addressing a potential threat earlier, more successfully and with greater confidence. Implemented often in businesses and organizations whose work is undertaken in the community and whose staff is required to interact with the public in varied situations.
Timeframe: 6-12 hours
Group Size: 20 maximum participants
Investment: Dependent on program length and outcomes.
It is important that children know where safety is, what to do when they are approached by someone they don’t know, and how to set boundaries with people who give them a “funny feeling”. While knowing Stranger Safety is valuable; what is sometimes overlooked is how often a child is with someone they do know. It is equally important that children learn the skills to be safe with peers as well as adults who challenge their safety rules.
The Safety Starts Early Workshop is specially designed for children ages 5–7 and their caring adults. Students learn and practice basic verbal and nonverbal personal safety techniques that are developmentally appropriate. Safe situations and people are based on proximity, safety rules and awareness. Children learn how to stay safe by practicing clear boundary setting, awareness, how to use resources, and what to do should the verbal skills not work. Parents and caregivers participate in the workshop with their children.
The program is generally taught by a male and female instructor team. Students practice the techniques with the instructor team with one staff playing the “boundary crosser” and the other coaching them as they practice new skills.
In some classes, IMPACT Safety uses a certified and trained instructor in a fully padded protective suit. This gives children the opportunity to practice physical responses which may be necessary to break away from someone bigger or stronger than themselves. The techniques are simple. Children learn by doing and remember what is taught as it becomes part of their “muscle memory”. Most children have never had an opportunity to practice what to do if they needed to use physical skills to stay safe. In this program, they get to practice techniques safely in a supportive atmosphere. Children and adults learn personal safety strategies and ways they can continue to practice at home.
Timeframe: 2½ – 6 hours
Group size: Class size is limited to twelve children and the adults who care for them
Investment: $75-$165
This 4-hour training is customized to fit the specific needs of the participants. Potential threats can come from a stranger, friend, coworker, or acquaintance. This training teaches strategies for dealing with these difficult situations. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice powerful skills to stop a physical assault. Comfortable clothing is recommended for this workshop.
Timeframe: 4 hours
Group size: Class size limited to 17
Investment: $100-$160
This 2-hour workshop designed for businesses and organizations. It is an introduction to verbal self-defense skills that combine discussions on safety, prevention, and violence de-escalation. The program is experiential: using customized scenarios specific to the industry. Participants practice verbal and low level physical skills with each other and with a certified instructor who plays the role of an assailant. Comfortable clothing recommended.
Timeframe: 2 hours
Group size: Class size limited to 20
Investment: Dependent on outcomes
This program is designed for situations teenagers encounter daily. Using realistic scenarios, participants learn verbal, emotional and physical skills necessary to help them stay emotionally and physically safe as they experience larger aspects of life.
The workshop covers basic safety information critical to youth: myths, realities, perception, intrusions and uncomfortableness in a wide variety of situations. Participants learn how powerful they are and what choices they can make to reduce vulnerabilities and increase their personal safety.
IMPACT Safety can organize a program for a specific grade in your school, youth group or other youth services.
This curriculum is specifically designed for young people ages 7 to 11. The curriculum focuses on learning and practicing awareness skills, verbal and nonverbal interpersonal safety skills in common situations, and what to do if awareness and communication (verbal and non-verbal skills) are not enough to provide safety.
Teaching kids how to be safe, how to be aware, and what skills they have, helps them feel less afraid and more confident in everyday situations. Children need to know what safety is, where it is, what to do when home alone; and how to deal with everyday situations at school, at a friend’s house, experiencing their expanding world.
Stranger safety is important, but equally important is that young people know how to deal with conflicts and situations with someone they already know — especially someone older and revered. Dealing with bullies, peer pressure and social messages are part of today’s everyday challenges. Even sports and group activities can be overwhelming or uncomfortable for many children.
Timeframe: 4-6 hours
Group size: Limited to 15
Investment: Dependent on program length and outcomes.
This 45-minute presentation is an introduction to safety for children for parents and caregivers. Students learn and practice basic verbal and nonverbal personal safety techniques that are developmentally appropriate. Children learn how to protect themselves by practicing clear boundary setting, awareness, avoidance, of potentially dangerous situations, and what to do should the verbal skills note work. Parents and caregivers participate in the workshop with their children.
Timeframe: 45-minutes
IMPACT Safety can organize a program for a specific grade in your school, youth group or other youth services.
Participants learn nonverbal and verbal skills for increasing their safety in everyday situations. Role-play scenarios help participants learn and practice different choices in assessing their risk and using their own strengths to increase their confidence, and practice setting boundaries.
Timeframe: 3 hours
Group size: 10-15 adults
Investment: $75
The workshop covers basic safety information critical to youth: myths, realities, perception, intrusions and uncomfortableness in a wide variety of situations. Participants learn how powerful they are and what choices they can make to reduce risk and increase their personal safety.
Timeframe: 4 hours
Group size: Class size limited to 16
IMPACT Safety can organize a program for specific classes, or departments in your school, church or business.
Adults face situations every day in which they ignore uncomfortable feelings or plan activities based on reducing the likelihood of being uncomfortable. Often, this is outside of conscious awareness, having settled into a routine pattern of behaviors. These are limiting behaviors based on fear, lack of confidence, personal history, or myth pose limits that can prevent new opportunities.
Empowered Safety and Self Defense Course, is based upon a nationally recognized curriculum, developed and researched over the past 35 years. It is a realistic interpersonal emotional and physical skills program that addresses awareness, avoidance, de-escalation, and confrontation. The skills focus on both interactions with strangers and with those more likely to instill feelings of “un-comfortableness” – people we know. This course covers all aspects of interpersonal safety and individual choice – providing participants with embodied awareness, practice and tools for their personal toolbox.
The curriculum focuses on learning and practicing verbal and nonverbal skills effective in communicating and interacting with others. The curriculum makes the connection between advocating for one’s self and communicating assertively with friends, family, and other relationships on the continuum of violence. Participants practice reading others and how to communicate verbally and physically – if necessary. Practicing these levels of self-defense is an experience of being personally powerful in the face of fear. These experiences expand possibilities for living a fuller life.
The program is taught by certified staff, trained in trauma informed care and physical safety.
Timeframe: 25 hours
Group size: Limited to 13
Investment: $385-$450
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