Lesson 1
Personal Safety
Are you safety conscious?
Simple safety habits that you practice
every day can decrease your exposure to
risk.
Lesson 1
Lesson Objectives
In this lesson, you’ll learn to:
Identify behaviors and strategies that enhance personal
safety.
Demonstrate ways of avoiding and reducing threatening
situations.
Examine strategies for promoting safety at home and in the
community.
Lesson 1
Your Protective Factors
Individual and Social Protective Factors Against Violence
Lesson 1
Strategies for Staying Safe
Taking Precautions and Developing Safety Habits
In addition to strengthening your protective factors, there are
behaviors you can practice to stay safe.
These actions include:
Taking precautions against
risky situations.
Developing safety habits.
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Strategies for Staying Safe
Smart Precautions
Avoid unsafe areas.
Don’t carry your wallet or purse in a conspicuous, easy-tograb place.
Avoid walking alone at night in dark alleys.
Let your family know where you’re going and when you’ll
return.
Do not get into an elevator alone with a stranger.
Do not hitchhike or give rides to hitchhikers.
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Strategies for Staying Safe
Body Language and Self Defense
Body Language
Self-Defense
Body language such as making direct eye
contact and using a strong voice
demonstrates that:
You are in charge of your safety.
You have a right to be safe and secure.
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Strategies for Staying Safe
Mental Strategies
Law enforcement officials often stress the importance of projecting
self-confidence and assertiveness.
Through words and actions, assertive people show that they are
not easy targets.
They are proactive in protecting their health and safety.
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Strategies for Staying Safe
Keeping Homes Safe
Lock doors with a
bolt.
Make sure windows
have locks.
Do not tell unknown
callers that you are
home alone.
Never open the door
to someone you
don’t know or trust.
Don’t let strangers
use your phone.
Do not give out
personal information
over the telephone
or computer.
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Safety in the Community
Making the Neighborhood Safer
Increased police
patrol
After-school
programs
Neighborhood
Watch programs
Improved lighting in
parks and
playgrounds
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Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. List two ways to keep your home safe.
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Quick Review - Answer
A. Some ways to keep your home safe:
Lock doors with a bolt.
Make sure windows have locks.
Never open the door to someone you don’t know or trust.
Do not tell unknown callers that you are home alone.
Do not give out personal information over the telephone.
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Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. Define the term assertive.
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Quick Review - Answer
A. Being assertive means standing up for your rights and
beliefs in firm but positive ways.
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Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. What is body language?
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Quick Review - Answer
A. Body language is nonverbal communication through
gestures, facial expressions, behaviors, and posture.
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Lesson 1
Quick Review
Provide a suitable analysis.
How can involvement in community activities serve as a protective
factor against violent behavior?
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Strategies for Staying Safe
Body Language and Self Defense
Body Language
Self-Defense
Key self-defense strategies can also
protect you from becoming a victim of
violence.
Signing up for a self-defense class is an
effective way to enhance your
confidence and sense of preparedness.
Lesson 1
Strategies for Staying Safe
Body Language and Self Defense
Body Language
Self-Defense
Body language such as making direct eye
contact and using a strong voice
Body language
demonstrates that:
is nonverbal
communication
You are in charge of
your safety.
through gestures,
You have a right tofacial
be safe
and secure.
expressions,
behaviors, and
posture.
Lesson 1
Strategies for Staying Safe
Body Language and Self Defense
Body Language
Self-Defense
Key self-defense strategies can also
protect you from becoming a victim of
violence.
Selfdefense involves
Signing up for
self-defense
anya strategy
for class is an
effective way
to enhance
your
protecting
oneself
confidence and
of preparedness.
fromsense
harm.
Lesson 1
Strategies for Staying Safe
Mental Strategies
Law enforcement officials often stress the importance of projecting
self-confidence and assertiveness.
Through words and actions, assertive people show that they are
not easy targets.
Being
They are proactive in protecting their health and safety.
assertive means
standing up for
your rights and
beliefs in firm
but positive
ways.