Review tools and strategies learned in the Core Program
Reconnect with their IMPACT experience
Expand tools and strategies for dealing with a single, unarmed attacker
Develop tools and strategies for dealing with armed or multiple assailants

As in the Core Program, advanced courses are designed for women who can comfortably engage in everyday activities. If you can walk up a flight of stairs carrying something, walk quickly across a room to pick up a ringing phone, and sit down on the floor and get up again, you are fit enough to participate. IMPACT Chicago recommends, however, that you postpone taking the class if you are recovering from a significant injury, have experienced an assault within the last three months, or are pregnant.

Program Descriptions
Details about the content and length of each course is provided below. Please note that the Advanced Programs build on techniques taught in the Core Program. For this reason, they are only open to women who have successfully completed the Core Program or Teen IMPACT.

Beyond the Core Program
This program for IMPACT graduates will begin with a review of tools learned in the Core Program and then add new tools and strategies. Graduates of Defense Against an Armed Rapist and Defense Against Multiple Attackers will also have the option to participate in scenarios where they use the tools they gained in those courses.

Defense Against an Armed Rapist One-Day Program
This program, taught in a single, six-hour session, is designed to teach women techniques and strategies to defend against the most common ways a rapist attempts to use a club, gun, or knife to force compliance. Women learn how to defend themselves in attacks that begin when they are walking, standing, or asleep.

Defense Against an Armed Rapist Two-Day Program
This program is designed for graduates of IMPACT's Core Program. If you have taken the Advanced Defense Skills course or the one-day Defense Against an Armed Rapist course, you will have the chance to review what you learned and learn new material. Taught on two consecutive days, with six hours of training each day, this course covers effective defenses to common attacks with a club, knife, or gun, from the front or the rear, both standing and on the ground. 

Defense Against Multiple Assailants
This program is designed to teach women to defend against the most common ways two or three attackers use their greater numbers to intimidate and overpower a woman. Women learn techniques and strategies to defend themselves in surprise attacks, attacks that begin with a verbal confrontation, attacks in which they are grabbed from behind, and attacks that occur when they are asleep. This program is typically taught on two consecutive days, with six hours of training each day. 

Advanced Defense Skills
This combination course is designed to prepare women to defend against the most common ways an armed rapist or two assailants attack a woman when she is walking or standing. This program is typically taught on two consecutive days (Saturday and Sunday) with six hours on each of the two days.

Program Registration
Registering for an IMPACT program is easy! Just click on the Register button at the top of this page to register online or to access a printable version of the registration form. If you prefer, you can request a registration form by calling IMPACT (773-338-4545) or e-mailing Leslie@impactchicago.org, IMPACT Chicago's Registration and Workshop Director. Do it today!

**Note: Before you register, please be aware that all of our programs are designed for participants to be present for the entire course time and not to be late, leave early, or miss a class session. In our programs, an emotional, physical, and knowledge foundation is layed at the beginning of a course and then all that is learned follows a step-by-step process; each activity builds on the previous activity and serves as the basis for subsequent activities. Please do not register with the idea that you can be late, leave early, or miss a class session.**

Program Fees and Payment Options
The program fees for the Advanced Programs are shown in the table below. Because our priority is to make self-defense training available to as many women and girls as possible, all of our donated monies are directed to the Core program and Teen IMPACT. For graduates who wish to take an advanced program, we offer a limited number of tuitions available at a reduced rate. 
  

An initial $50 deposit is due with your registration and is required to reserve your place in the program. The balance of the program fee must be received at the IMPACT Chicago office, postmarked no fewer than 10 days prior to the beginning of the program. 

Alternative payment options are available for women who wish to attend an IMPACT advanced program. For more information, click on the following link: Paying for IMPACT. 

Late Registration and Cancellation Fees
If you are mailing the final payment fewer than 10 days prior to the beginning of the Advanced Program, a late fee of $15 will apply and should be included in the amount received. 

IMPACT Chicago programs have a limited enrollment in order to maximize the experience of each participant. Our ability to offer programs is jeopardized when participants cancel. For this reason, the initial $50 deposit is nonrefundable. To cancel your registration in a course, we require witten notice at least 14 days prior to the first day of the program. If a student does not attend or complete the course in which she is enrolled, she forfeits all of her tuition. We offer no refunds.

To transfer your enrollment to an Advanced Program other than the one for which you originally registered, we require written notice at least 14 days prior to the course date and a $25 transfer fee. The balance of the tuition will be applied to the new course.