{"id":115483,"date":"2019-09-12T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T22:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=115483"},"modified":"2019-09-12T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T22:58:23","slug":"free-never-a-victim-classes-available-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=115483","title":{"rendered":"Free &#8220;Never A Victim&#8221; classes available for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FUCCSPolice%2Fvideos%2F2289295041382644%2F&amp;width=740&amp;show_text=false&amp;height=411&amp;appId\" width=\"740\" height=\"411\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Those interested in learning self-defense are invited to attend \u2018Never a Victim\u2019 class on campus through the UCCS Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Doris Rivera-Black founded the program with a mission to \u201cempower all woman and young girls to never be a victim through teaching awareness, avoidance, and simple no-nonsense self-defense techniques to fit all woman regardless of age, background and fitness level. They are dedicated to provide all women with the self-confidence that they need to survive if ever faced with an attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivera-Black and UCCS Student Government Association co-sponsor the program so students can attend for free. The cost for faculty, staff and community members is $30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great class, it\u2019s a lot of fun, it\u2019s a very safe environment,\u201d said Lisa Dipzinski, sergeant, UCCS Police, in this week&#8217;s Safety Tip Tuesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCCSPolice\/videos\/760333814359423\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>. \u201cThe class is open to everybody \u2013 male, female, older, younger \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The class is four hours, covering awareness of surroundings, self-defense techniques and practicing the techniques on instructors in protective gear.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up, email Dipzinski at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ldipzins@uccs.edu\">ldipzins@uccs.edu<\/a>\u00a0or call (719) 255-5916.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Those interested in learning self-defense are invited to attend \u2018Never a Victim\u2019 class on campus through the UCCS Police Department. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=115483\" title=\"Free &#8220;Never A Victim&#8221; classes available for students\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[44,313],"class_list":["post-115483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-administration-and-finance","tag-uccs-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20181006_103931.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-u2D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115484,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115483\/revisions\/115484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}