IMPACT’s Children’s Camp serves boys and girls, ages 6-12. The workshop is very physically active and experiential, and answers a lot of questions many children have already begun developing. Education can lower anxiety by providing a plan and teaching self-reliance. Our children’s classes are taught in a positive and fun way that students enjoy.
In the Children’s Camp, students practice stopping unwanted touch and learn strategies for dealing with bribes and threats, and to speak up for themselves until they get help. We also teach children to use to their intuition and, and as well physical techniques to stop abduction and find safety. Children learn these skills through role-play. We teach positive reinforcement and learning through success.
Families that sign up for our public Children’s Camp may also attend a simultaneous 
Protecting Young Children class on the last day. Parents can learn how to talk to children about safety, respond to fears children may bring home, gain additional resources, and reinforce the concepts children learned during their workshop. The nature of the material makes it appropriate for older teens and adults who care for young children. The parent class is followed by a short graduation where families can see the skills the graduates learned first hand.
Our method of teaching children’s self-defense is similar to teaching children other safety skills, such as how to cross the street, leave a building during a fire, or how to use a kitchen knife. 
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t is not necessary to discuss the details of being hit by a car, the perils of a burning building, or being cut by a sharp knife to learn safe conduct, just as it is not necessary to discuss the details of molestation and abduction to learn self-defense. You wouldn’t send a child across the road without teaching them to look both ways and how to judge a car’s speed and distance. Similarly, we wouldn’t want to send them to dance, soccer, or school without preparing them with strategies and solutions for what they may encounter.
To read more about how our experiential classes are taught, visit our How Experiential Works page. Click to read about Success Stories from children, teens, and adults.
This workshop is for boys and girls, ages 6-12. The cost is $125. Scholarships and payment plans are available. This workshop can be customized and expanded to meet the needs and goals of schools, summer camps and community centers. Call our office for group rates.
Marissa’s Scholarship Fund Information
Marisa’s Scholarship Fund enables us to give generous scholarships to those adults, teens and children who need assistance. Need-based scholarships are available to a limited number of participants per class, depending on availability of scholarship funds. Click here to download the Scholarship Application or contact us if you would like a paper copy. As it can take 1-3 weeks to review your application, please submit the application as early as possible before the class you wish to attend. Upon the application’s approval, you will be contacted.
Payment Plans
The full tuition amount must be paid within three months and payments may be broken up into no more than three consecutive payments. A non-refundable $75 deposit or full course tuition (whichever is less) must be paid in full by the first day of the course. The student must provide IMPACT with post-dated checks or requests for credit card charges for the entire course tuition in advance of the beginning of the course. Checks will be deposited or charges made bi-weekly or monthly as the parent indicates. Please contact our office to arrange for a payment plan.
Cancellation Policy
We reserve the right to cancel a class, or modify the class schedule due to low enrollment at any time prior to the start of the class. In the event that a class is canceled, the course tuition will be refunded in full or transferred to the next class.
If a student decides to cancel enrollment, and if notice of cancellation is during regular weekday business hours, and if notice is given two weeks or more before the class begins, a student may:
- Transfer credit to a future class within one year, less a $35 administrative fee.
- Receive a fifty percent (50%) refund.
However, credit or refund is not available without proper notice.
