College offers girls defense class

Daniel Webster College is offering greater Nashua high school girls the opportunity to empower themselves.

The “Rape Aggression Defense” system, known as RAD, develops and enhances the options of self defense through lecture, discussion and hands-on self defense techniques

Having trained more than 300,000 women since 1989 and as the largest network of its kind, the program is being offered in February by Daniel Webster College as a service to young women who may be looking at colleges in metropolitan, or even unfamiliar rural areas, to provide them with the skills to keep themselves safe.

“What is really at the foundation of the program is ‘awareness,’” said Daniel Webster’s Campus Safety Director, Jamie Provencher.

“In addition to teaching blocks, parries, and kicks, women are taught self awareness, self reliance, and gain an acute understanding of their surroundings.”

Provencher said the women-only course begins with awareness, prevention, risk-reduction and risk avoidance.

The program will be held from 6-9 p.m. February 13 15,20 and 22. The cost is $15. Mothers may accompany their daughters and receive training for free.

Space is limited. Reservations may be made by calling Daniel Webster College’s Campus Safety Office at 603-577-6033.

The program has a free life-time return and practice policy.

For more information, visit www.dwc.edu or www.rad-systems.com.