IMPACT’s Children’s Workshop 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 often really enjoy.
In the Children’s Workshop, students practice listening to their intuition and stopping unwanted touch, including dealing with bribes and threats and how to keep telling an adult until they get help. We also teach safety rules with strangers, and physical techniques to stop abduction and get to safety. Our educational model emphasizes concept-based, learned, repetitive role-plays. We teach positive reinforcement and learning through success. Simple safety rules are presented in a straightforward and understandable manner.
Our method of teaching children’s self-defense is similar to teaching your children other safety skills, such as how to cross the street, leave a building during a fire, or how to use a kitchen knife. It 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 also wouldn’t send a child across the road without teaching them to look both ways and 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 may come up.
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 are available. Payment plans 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. S/he 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 business hours during a weekday, 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, no credit or refund is available if you fail to give proper notice.
