Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) System’s Basic Physical Self Defense Course for Women

To All Wayne State University Students, Staff and Faculty,

The Wayne State University Police Department will again host the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) System’s Basic Physical Self Defense Course for Women in July 2017. 

This RAD Basic Self Defense Class will be held on two successive Monday and Wednesday evenings:  July 10th, 12th, 17th, and 19th, 2017. 

 

All RAD classes will be held at the Wayne State University Police Department. located at 6050 Cass Avenue at Burroughs, two blocks north of the Ford/I-94 freeway.

 

The Rape Aggression Defense system is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques for women. The R.A.D. System is a comprehensive course that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on self defense. The RAD program is taught nationwide and its widespread acceptance is primarily due to the ease, simplicity and effectiveness of R.A.D. tactics, solid research, legal defensibility and unique teaching methodology.

 

Our Basic R.A.D course is open to girls and women of all ages. In fact, graduates of our past R.A.D. classes ranged in age from 11 years old to 74 years of age.  Over 1,500 women have attended our Basic RAD program classes since RAD came to the WSUPD in late 1999.

Several male and female WSU Police Officers, who are also nationally certified RAD instructors, will teach each RAD session. The program is a 13 hour women’s self defense course that has been internationally recognized as an effective and easy-to-learn personal safety tool.  Each class consists of four separate sessions that cover a variety of topics; including personal safety and safety awareness, physical defense techniques, and aggressive defense measures, such as tactical ground fighting, to be used as options, available to the woman who is attacked. 

 

The last session (Simulation Night) allows you to test your new skills and techniques to defend yourself in three simulated attacks. 

 

All RAD classes are open to women only. Husbands, boyfriends or other males will not be allowed to attend or view this training. RAD classes are scheduled monthly and RAD Class announcements will be made via Campus Watch emails. If you are interested in taking our RAD classes, keep your eye on future Campus Watch emails for RAD class dates and times.

 

Additionally, the WSUPD has increased our RAD class offerings and we will be periodically scheduling Advanced RAD, RAD Weapons Defense, RAD for Men, RAD Key Chain Defense and RAD Aerosol Defense Options.

 

In June of 2015, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the University of Windsor released the results of a Canadian study on sexual assaults on three college and university campuses in that country. This 10 year study, the first of its kind in North America, showed that, "The chance of a woman being (sexually) assaulted during four years at a university is estimated at between 20 and 25 per cent over a four-year period".  (U.S. findings are similar with Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics indicating that 1 out of 4 women will be a survivor of rape or attempted rape between the ages of 14 and 25).

See the below link for the news story on this Canadian study and note the three related stories on the right side of the page after you access the below link

"Women Trained to Resist Sexual Assault Far Less Likely to be Raped" - 

 

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/women-trained-to-resist-sexual-assault-far-less-likely-to-be-raped-study-1.2416122

Not familiar with the WSUPD Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Women's Self Defense program or not sure if it's for you? Well, WDIV/ClickonDetroit.com sent a reporter and cameraman to our November 2013 RAD class for a "Local 4 Defenders" news story. You can see that story at the following link:

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/investigations/Women-learn-self-defense-must-keep-skills-secret/-/1719314/23520502/-/jdy0dnz/-/index.html

If you make the time commitment, we will commit to providing you with some of the best women's self defense training available.

 

NOTE: WSU Students, Staff and Faculty members may also attend with, or enroll, one non-WSU woman as their guest. This would include non-WSU spouses, partners, girlfriends, Mom's and female siblings. Daughters and siblings 12 to 16 years of age may attend the RAD training program once a parent signs a Parental Consent Form. Because of the subject matter content, we highly recommend that the minor female attends the RAD course with a female parent or older female sibling.

This Basic Rape Aggression Defense course is very popular. Previous Basic RAD classes filled very quickly and were met with overwhelming success. If you plan on registering with a friend or relative, don’t delay.

The RAD course costs only $20.00 per participant for the four session class. Payment is required at time of registration. We can accept cash or checks, payable to 'Wayne State University Police'.

You must register in advance to ensure your enrollment. See below for registration details.

Monday, July 10th, 2017                  5:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Wednesday, July 12th, 2017            5:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Monday, July 17th, 2017                  5:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Wednesday, July 19th. 2017            5:30 pm to 9:30 pm  (Simulations Night)

How to register for the July 2017 Basic RAD Class -

In order to maintain a high student to instructor ratio, class size is limited to the first 20 registered participants. To register for this class, please bring your $20 registration fee and your WSU OneCard ID, to the Records Section of the Wayne State Police Department located at 6050 Cass Avenue at Burroughs, two blocks north of the Ford freeway. (Feel free to park in the 'Police Only Zone' in front of the building as the course registration will only take a couple of minutes).

WSUPD Records Section Office Hours are Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.

Registrations for this upcoming Basic RAD class will be accepted until Friday, July 6th, 2017 unless the class fills to capacity before that time.

 

PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE 

TO GUARANTEE YOUR SPOT IN THIS COURSE

Crime Prevention Section
Wayne State University Police
6050 Cass Avenue
Detroit, MI  48202
desk: 313-577-6064

EMERGENCY phone: 313-577-2222
web: http://police.wayne.edu
email: campuswatch@wayne.edu

Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellow

Congratulations to Donal O'Leary for receiving this distinguished award,

an honor established by the university’s Board of Governors to recognize and provide support for faculty whose continuing achievements and activities in scholarship, research ... are nationally distinguished. 

Additionally, Donal is a member of the Executive Board for AAUP-AFT Local 6075, Wayne State Chapter - here, after a meeting:

via Prognosis E-News

09/22/16 Academic Forum "Vision for the Coming Year"

 video recording is now on YouTube

Children's March to Stop Water Shutoffs

Saturday June 18th Wayne State University Student Center 5PM

We need you to reach out  to mobilize families with children in your circles, youth leaders, children and 

youth activities to compel them to represent a moral voice to stop water shutoffs for the most vulnerable people in Detroit.Three quarters of the children in Detroit are living below 150% of the federal poverty 

level ($35,775 for a family of four). Exposing children to an opportunity to care about other children is 

a way to nurture their humanity by caring for other children in need. 

Please make the sacrifice of time to personally compel  people to join in and wage love..   

The Allied Media Conference has agreed to support our cause by spreading the word nationwide 

about Mayor Duggan's refusal to accept the warnings that massive water shut offs are a threat to 

public health and  an assault, punishing vulnerable people who cannot afford the current payment 

rates and policies. There is not a reasonable process in place for evaluating shut offs for vulnerable populations such as elderly, pregnant women, persons with serious medical conditions or chronic 

health challenges, young children in the home, landlord tenant discrepancies. 

This is unreasonable and unacceptable. Like Flint we have been persistent as advocates, 

now we have decided to lift up the children’s voices to call out to the Mayor in front of the nation.

Do what you can to get a save date out especially if you can get church youth groups, 

boy and girl scouts, school groups etc. Post on your Facebook page, email blast, blog etc.

We have youth voice but need all hands and feet, lots of children and lots of adult support.

We can do this!

Water Warriors and Allies,                           

Again we are besieged with the resumption of massive water shut offs. Much like the situation in Flint, our early warnings of the public health impact have been ignored by the Mayor. We must educate the public and move to protect the most vulnerable among us.

We are mobilizing young people to lead a Children’s March on Saturday June 18 at 5:00 pm launched from the international Allied Media Conference being held at Wayne State University. We will march from the south side of the Student Center. We will walk down Second then go over to Woodward and walk in front of the restaurants in Midtown (this is the start of the dinner hour). 

We are asking everyone to wear BLUE!                                                                              

The young people in leadership have had involvement in the water work at various levels, water stations, Lansing lobby days, undoing racism, fundraising, canvassing, prayer vigils, the water justice walk from Detroit to Flint and much more. We reach out to you to bring children to be in the March - all are welcome to show they care about the people by participating in sending a message to Mayor Duggan:  

Stop the water shut offs!

Please send out an email blast to your circle of influence, youth groups, churches, recreation centers, after school programs. Put it out on social media. Get the children out. The youth are developing a flyer. Please help in any way you can.  This is urgent and critical to our community.                                                                                                                 

Water is a human right. Water is life. The best interests of the people should come before profits. Sick people, elderly, pregnant women, households with young children and those with chronic illness should be handled with sensitivity. The foundation of the Mayor and Governor’s resistance is their motivation to privatize water by targeting black communities.  As they turn a deaf ear,  thousands are harmed,  losing their children, losing their homes and suffering because they cannot afford the water. Human services are supposed to to help,not hurt.

Join us as we take to the streets to lift the voices of children crying out for water restoration as human right!

See the flyer with info about the march.

Urgent Call to Action:  

"Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, 

despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. 

Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, 

as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards 

the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent 

with their inalienable dignity."     -- Pope Francis, Laudato Si