
What Is Empowerment Self Defense?
Empowerment Self Defense focuses on raising awareness, verbal and physical skills to prevent, interrupt, respond to, and heal from harassment, abuse, and assault.

What We Do
Prevention. Action. Change. works to counter harassment, assault, and abuse through building awareness, verbal and physical prevention and response skills, and the promotion of healing and growth.

What the Research Says
Empowerment Self Defense (ESD) works.
“I thought it was going to be about specific moves but it was more about confidence in yourself.”
Adult participant
“(I learned) how to identify unhealthy relationships and how to defend myself if needed.”