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Everyday Self Defense programs offer a balanced approach to personal and workplace safety that anyone can learn. The programs are designed to help you reduce fear and gain confidence in providing for your personal safety, promoting high-level wellness and improved job performance.

Each presentation includes awareness exercises, role-playing, stress reduction techniques, and practice with simple but surprisingly effective physical skills.

Combining more than 30 years training and teaching in the martial arts with her experience as a professional social worker, Janet Nelson has developed a unique approach to personal safety awareness that stresses social and professional issues as well as mental and physical training.

Everyday Self Defense represents all that she has learned applying self defense techniques to common, everyday situations that most of us have to deal with in our personal and professional lives.

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Safety in Human Services:  Stay in the Know!

Janet NeslonFor all of us working in caring professions like social work, health care, mental health or social services, it is troubling to witness the threats, harassment, abuse and violent attacks that occur on the job.

We must get educated and promote improved safety measures within our professions. "…we need to do more advocacy work to protect those of us who work hard helping others.” (pg. 38, Everyday Self Defense for Social Workers)

Check this corner regularly for updates on human services safety issues!

— Janet Nelson, LCSW

In the News...

Social Worker Safety Bill Introduced
OccupationalHazards.com, May 8, 2007

Update on Social Worker and Case Worker Safety Bill in Congress
H Con. Res. 278

Massachusetts bill would boost benefits for social workers
Boston.com News, September 30, 2005

Child Protective Worker Attacked in Washington State
Seattle Times, March 7, 2005