Delay for Spring, Hopeful for Fall Semester
PLEASE NOTE: To protect the health and safety of our communities, UTC PD have canceled in-person R.A.D. classes for the remainder of 2020-2021 Academic year. Per UTC guidelines; community members are discouraged from holding events, meetings, or physical activities involving greater than 10 people if the gathering is non-essential to ongoing operations. We have received many requests for an in-person session this semester, however we remain optimistic for holding defense classes starting back in Fall 2021 and will send out course times to campus when confirmed.
Information on the R.A.D. Program at UTC:
The Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) Program is a woman’s self-defense and awareness training program developed by Larry Nadeau and his staff in Virginia. It is an internationally recognized, proactive, physical defensive tactics-training program provided to females around the nation. After much research and extended efforts, the UTC Police Department adopted and is now routinely providing this program as a service to the female population of the UTC community.
The R.A.D. System’s instructional objective is to develop and enhance the options of self-defense, so they become viable considerations to the woman who might be attacked. R.A.D. is a twelve-hour course, which is broken up into three, four-hour sessions offered during the evenings, or two, six-hour sessions offered on weekends.
The students and aggressor are dressed in special protective gear during the simulation part of the training. This dynamic simulation empowers the women participants by teaching them the essentials of fighting back and fighting back effectively.
R.A.D. is offered all over the United States and Canada. All graduating R.A.D. students can return and practice their self-defense skills at any location where R.A.D. is offered.
If you have any questions concerning future R.A.D. courses or would like to schedule a virtual safety Q&A, please contact Corporal Rebecca Tolbert at Rebecca-Tolbert@utc.edu or call our Communications Officers 423-425-4357.