Safety and Self Defense for Middle-and-High Schoolers:
Simple Savage Self Defense Systems has designed a comprehensive safety program specially designed for Middle-and-High School students that can help prevent anyone from becoming a needless victim of violence.
According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund's
"Facts on Teen and Dating Violence":
"While dating, domestic and sexual violence affect women regardless of their age; teens and young women are especially vulnerable. Women age 16 to 24 experience the highest rates of rape and sexual assault
(http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv08.htm), and people age 18 and 19 experience the highest rates of stalking. (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/svus.pdf)
Add to that the 15.5 million U.S. children who live in families in which partner violence occurred at least once in the past year, and you have a huge number of young people in this country whose lives are affected – sometimes shaped – by violence."
Prevalence of Violence:
(http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/userfiles/file/Teens/Teens_Sept_09_FINAL.pdf)
• Approximately one in three adolescent girls in the United States is a victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner – a figure that far exceeds victimization rates for other types of violence affecting youth. (http://www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/pubs/2008_focus_teen_dating_violence.pdf)
• Nationwide, nearly one in ten high-school students (8.9 percent) has been hit, slapped, or physically hurt on purpose by a boyfriend or girlfriend. (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5302a1.htm)
• Nearly one in three sexually active adolescent girls in ninth to twelfth grade (31.5 percent) report ever experiencing physical or sexual violence from dating partners.
(Decker M, Silverman J, Raj A. 2005. Dating Violence and Sexually Transmitted Disease/HIV Testing and
Diagnosis Among Adolescent Females. Pediatrics. 116: 272-276.)
• One in four teen girls in a relationship (26 percent) says she has been threatened with violence or experienced verbal abuse, and 13 percent say they were physically hurt or hit. (http://www.loveisnotabuse.com/surveyresults.htm)
• One in three teens reports knowing a friend or peer who has been hit, punched, kicked, slapped or physically hurt by a partner, and 45 percent of girls know a friend or peer who has been pressured into having either intercourse or oral sex. (http://www.loveisnotabuse.com/surveyresults.htm)
• One in five tweens – age 11 to 14 – say their friends are victims of dating violence and nearly half who are in relationships know friends who are verbally abused. Two in five of the youngest tweens, ages 11 and 12, report that their friends are victims of verbal abuse in relationships.
(http://www.loveisnotabuse.com/pdf/Tween%20Dating%20Abuse%20Full%20Report.pdf)
Our Safety and Self Defense for Middle-and-High Schoolers clinic is designed for the specific safety needs of young students. It includes such topics as:
Awareness and Vulnerability
Blocks and Strikes
Joint Locks
Pressure Points
Escaping Choke Holds
If you would like to schedule a Safety and Self Defense for Middle-and-High Schoolers clinic for your students or your school,
give us a call at 720-432-3006
or email us at [email protected].
We'll be happy to work with you on your campus.