IMPACT is a unique personal safety and self-defense curriculum that teaches students effective strategies to resist threats, intimidation and violence perpetrated by strangers and people they know. Students care be young teenages, women, men, of all ages and ethnic backgrounds. Classes are taught by a team of two instructors, one of whom takes on the role of a perpetrator. He wears a full suit of body armor so students can safely defend themselves using the same force needed in a real attack. IMPACT also teaches how to get away or descalate a potental threat or situation. The intructors of IMPACT are fantastic. A variety classes are held are various times and locations through each semester. The website is