{"id":20557,"date":"2019-11-12T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/free-self-defense-classes-for-women-identified-uic-staff-and-faculty\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:19:03","slug":"free-self-defense-classes-for-women-identified-uic-staff-and-faculty","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/free-self-defense-classes-for-women-identified-uic-staff-and-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Free self-defense classes for women-identified UIC staff and faculty"},"template":"","news_categories":[20],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20557","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-other-opportunities"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>The UIC Police Department is proud to offer self-defense courses in partnership with the American Women\u2019s Self Defense Association.<\/p>\n<p>The free four-hour course (2-hour classroom setting and 2-hour gym setting) is designed to introduce adult women-identified participants to the strategies, tactics and techniques needed to win a confrontation against an attacker. This course focuses on building the student\u2019s confidence in her ability to defend herself, and in encouraging a defiant and aggressive attitude toward an attacker.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the four-hour (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) self-defense course, the student will achieve:<br \/>\n1. Increased awareness of general violence prevention skills.<br \/>\n2. Increased confidence in her ability to fight back successfully against an attacker.<br \/>\n3. Established mindset of \u201cno one has the right to put their hands on me.\u201d<br \/>\n4. Strategies and tactics that can be used to potentially prevent an attack.<br \/>\n5. Basic techniques that she can use to defend herself physically and to win a fight in a dangerous or potentially lethal situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To preregister, <a href=\"mailto:uicpdawsda@uic.edu\">email uicpdawsda@uic.edu<\/a> with your preferred date:<\/strong><br \/>\nDec. 1<br \/>\nJan. 12, 26<br \/>\nFeb. 9, 23<br \/>\nMarch 8, 29<br \/>\nApril 12, 26<br \/>\nMay 10, 24<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"Learn strategies, tactics and techniques needed to win a confrontation against an attacker","content_author":"Erika Chavez","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20557"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}