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ASAP : Adaptive Sports Abuse Prevention

Interactive, specialized trainings for people with disabilities to learn how to protect themselves.

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Abuse Prevention Training for Adaptive Sports Programs

People with disabilities are more likely to experience sexual violence, yet athletes with disabilities are too often left out of the conversation about sport and prevention.

Adaptive Sports Abuse Prevention (ASAP) is one of the few curricula designed specifically for coaches, trainers, volunteers and leaders of programs that work with athletes with disabilities. This conference will equip participants to teach the 5-session curriculum within their organizations.

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For more on what differentiates empowerment self-defense from other approaches, read this blog post from Martha Thompson at IMPACT Chicago.

Is it Empowerment Self-Defense?

A checklist comparing non-empowerment self-defense programs to true empowerment self-defense (ESD) programs across three areas, philosophy, teaching approach, and methodology. Showing what genuine ESD looks like versus programs that fall short.

Martha Thompson

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