The UConn Police Department in partnership with Community Standards, the Women's Center and Office of Student Services & Advocacy functioning together to reaffirm the goal of providing the highest level of safety and well-being to the UConn community offers free-of-charge Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) classes.
The goal of the UConn RAD & Campus Safety Program is to provide an easily accessible program of education and awareness for the women in our college community. The program trains women in basic self-defense and offers them viable options when confronted with various threats of violence.
The 14 hour course, usually broken down into 3 and 4 hour blocks, educates women about defensive strategies using simple and effective tactics and a unique teaching methodology. This comprehensive course progresses from awareness, prevention, risk reduction, and avoidance to basic self-defense participation. The course we currently teach is for "R.A.D. For Women: Basic Physical Defense". Male members of our community please see the Women's Center's Men's Project.
We will have a class at the Storrs Campus on Tuesday nights October 1 through 22, 2012 5:30 p.m. - 9:00 pm (*class is only 14 hours it will be divided into 4 hours and/or 3 hour blocks; you must attend all sessions).
Go to http://www.police.uconn.edu/UCRAD_CSP.php for more information and to sign up online.
For more information, contact: Officer Eric Bard at eric.bard@uconn.edu