SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND RAPE PREVENTION (SHARP) COURSE
Course Description:  Informational 4-6 hours total
                                  Certification 8 hours total

The PPCT Management Systems, Inc. / Human Factor Science (PPCT/HFS) Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention (SHARP) course has been specifically designed to meet the needs of women when control methods and assault prevention methods are required. Principles and strategies for effectively reducing the likelihood of assault through actual techniques of countering an attack are stressed in this program. Utilizing efficient and effective methods of subject control that do not rely on size and strength, with a training system that can be used by just about everyone who is interested in personal safety.

Course Goals:

1. To examine survival-learning research in an effort to enhance survivability.
2. To instruct a subject control system that is compatible with the effects of survival stress and allows women to easily and effectively control situations that arise.
3. To teach a subject control system based upon techniques that do not rely on size and
   strength and that can be easily learned and retained.
4. To teach instructional methods designed to enhance a student’s ability to learn survival techniques, increase his/her confidence level, and assist in the successful application of physical techniques.
   
   Course Topics:
   
   Effects of Survival Stress on Performance
   This chapter examines survival stress research and provides students with information that will enhance their survivability in combative situations and recommendations regarding issues related to critical incident management.
   
   Prevention Psychology
   This chapter examines the many variables associated with prevention psychology and explores the concept of the assailant as predator and the victim as prey. It reviews a variety of different personality types and identifies which type is more likely to become a victim. Other topics discussed include predatory actions of the assailant, developing a prevention mindset, and personal security steps that may prevent the student from becoming a victim.
   
   Principles of Avoidance
   This chapter is designed to help students learn to predict and avoid pending aggression by becoming aware of certain threat cues and reading potentially aggressive body language. It focuses on the three “Principles of Avoidance” (know your limitations, control the environment, and control your fear) and examines how awareness and distance control survival stress/fear.
   
   Passive Releases and Escapes
   This chapter examines a form of assaults referred to as “Passive Assaults”, which can be very frustrating and potentially dangerous of not managed quickly and correctly. It analyzes the three most common forms of passive assaults (passive intimidation, flirtatious contact, and wrist grabs) and three techniques designed to control/manage them.
   
   Defensive Counterstrikes
   This chapter presents a system of defensive counterstrikes, composed of two blocks, two stunning techniques delivered with the back of the hand and the inside of the wrist, and two kicks targeting the lower leg, all designed to temporarily stun or disable an aggressor for 30 seconds or more and allow the student time to escape.
   
   Disarming
   This chapter gives students the skills and knowledge necessary to disarm and aggressor when all other survival strategies have failed. It examines the issues a student needs to consider in preparing mentally and physically to disarm an assailant and presents the three basic steps in the weapon disarming system: waiting for the subject to be distracted; developing a predetermined survival response; and maintaining psychological control of the assailant and the environment.

To sign up for this class, Please click on the link for current training schedule