radKIDS

Free radKIDS Personal Empowerment Safety Education: Kids 8 -12 years of age (siblings 7 & 13 years permitted). Taught by Darlene Gentry. Co-sponsored by Lexington Park Baptist Church.

Meets 2 consecutive days:

Saturday, October 5,  11 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 6,  1:30 - 4:30 p.m. 

Class Size is very limited.

radKIDS is a life skills educational program filled with hope and empowering choices to escape violence.  In today's world, children and their parents deserve the ability to recognize violence and harm like abduction, bullying, abuse, or sexual assault. By replacing fear with confidence and skills, we will help children prevent or escape violence. We will literally save lives. The class is fun, energetic, and interactive. Class includes 8 hours of instruction & practice, a training manual, and light refreshments.

About the Instructor:

Darlene Gentry has over thirty years’ experience in martial arts, women’s self-defense, and self-defense education for the public. She teaches self-defense part-time at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and has instructed women's self-defense courses in many different venues. Darlene also regularly teaches R.A.D. courses for free at Lexington Park Baptist Church.

Registrants e-mail addresses will be shared with the course instructor. 

She will provide participants with the registration forms and details about the class like: what clothes to wear, how strenuous the activities are, etc.

For more information on RAD programs, visit The R.A.D. Systems of Self Defense 

Any R.A.D. graduate from any class in the U.S. and Canada can attend another instructor’s class for practice free of charge for the rest of her life!

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