Please consider paying full price, or at a rate higher than the scales would indicate, if your household is able to do so. This will allow us to keep the sliding scales as generous as possible while being sustainable. If you feel the sliding scale fee does not properly reflect your household's financial circumstances, please email [email protected] or call 312.971.7119 so we can discuss your financial needs further.
Full Prices
Core Program fee $450
IMPACT for Girls fee $250
Advanced Program fees vary. Sliding scales are not available for Advanced Programs; however, payment plans are available upon request.
Sliding Scale Calculators
Full Prices
Core Program fee $450
IMPACT for Girls fee $250
Advanced Program fees vary. Sliding scales are not available for Advanced Programs; however, payment plans are available upon request.
Sliding Scale Calculators
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Can you offer financial support to someone else?
Please consider becoming a donor! You can make a donation online or by mail (IMPACT Chicago, 4057 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL 60618). You can also help by paying the full fees for our programs, if you are able.
What determines the fees for the courses?
Our costs include: insurance for full contact programs; instructor salaries; equipment purchase, maintenance, and storage; space rental; printed materials; and associated registration expenses.
Generous donations of both money and volunteer time have made it possible to cap individual fees at $450 for the Core Program and $250 for IMPACT for Girls, even though the costs are higher. These donations also support our sliding scales.
Late Registration, Cancellation, and Transfer Fees
Late Registration
Your full payment secures your spot in a course. Full payment is due 14 days prior to the first day of the program. A late fee of $20 is added if payment is received fewer than 14 days prior to the first day of the program.
Cancellation
To cancel your registration and receive a refund, we require written (email) notice no less than 14 days prior to the first day of the program. If a student cancels their enrollment within the 14-day window before the course start date or does not attend or complete the course in which they are enrolled, there is no refund.
Transfers
To transfer your enrollment to a program other than the program for which you originally registered, we require written notice at least 14 days prior to the first day of the program and a $50 transfer fee. The balance of the tuition will be applied to the new course. If you request a transfer within the 14-day window, the transfer fee is $150.
If you have extenuating circumstances (e.g, illness, funeral), please provide a doctor’s note or other documentation to our Registration Coordinator and we will work with you to transfer your registration to another course or determine some other acceptable course of action.
Employer Sponsorships
If your employer offers a tuition reimbursement program, check to see if an IMPACT self-defense program would be eligible! When approaching your employer regarding this type of funding, here are some things to address:
Please consider becoming a donor! You can make a donation online or by mail (IMPACT Chicago, 4057 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL 60618). You can also help by paying the full fees for our programs, if you are able.
What determines the fees for the courses?
Our costs include: insurance for full contact programs; instructor salaries; equipment purchase, maintenance, and storage; space rental; printed materials; and associated registration expenses.
Generous donations of both money and volunteer time have made it possible to cap individual fees at $450 for the Core Program and $250 for IMPACT for Girls, even though the costs are higher. These donations also support our sliding scales.
Late Registration, Cancellation, and Transfer Fees
Late Registration
Your full payment secures your spot in a course. Full payment is due 14 days prior to the first day of the program. A late fee of $20 is added if payment is received fewer than 14 days prior to the first day of the program.
Cancellation
To cancel your registration and receive a refund, we require written (email) notice no less than 14 days prior to the first day of the program. If a student cancels their enrollment within the 14-day window before the course start date or does not attend or complete the course in which they are enrolled, there is no refund.
Transfers
To transfer your enrollment to a program other than the program for which you originally registered, we require written notice at least 14 days prior to the first day of the program and a $50 transfer fee. The balance of the tuition will be applied to the new course. If you request a transfer within the 14-day window, the transfer fee is $150.
If you have extenuating circumstances (e.g, illness, funeral), please provide a doctor’s note or other documentation to our Registration Coordinator and we will work with you to transfer your registration to another course or determine some other acceptable course of action.
Employer Sponsorships
If your employer offers a tuition reimbursement program, check to see if an IMPACT self-defense program would be eligible! When approaching your employer regarding this type of funding, here are some things to address:
- Self-Defense Training Increases Productivity – Self-defense training is an important benefit for female employees to enhance their job performance because self-defense training increases women's confidence in decision-making, problem solving, and crisis management (Ozer and Bandura 1990).
- Self-Defense Training Reduces Employees' Risks of Violence – Women who have had self-defense training are less likely to experience sexual assault than women who have not had the training (Hollander 2014).
- Self-Defense Training Reduces Workers' Turnover and Health Costs – Each rape costs approximately $151,423 and interferes with women's ability to work (DeLisi, 2010; Lyron 2002). Fifty percent of sexual violence victims had to quit or were forced to leave their jobs in the year following their assaults due to the severity of their reactions (Ellis, Atkeson, & Calhoun, 1981). Violence and abuse constitute up to 37.5% of total health care costs, or up to $750 billion (Dolezal, McCollum, & Callahan, 2009).