Halloween Stranger and Safety Program

Funtastic Characters and Villari's Martial Arts Center cares about the safety of your children. We will offer this Safety Awareness Course every October for groups of children aged 3-12 We will focus on Halloween Safety, Stranger Awareness, and Self defense. Course will be taught by Martial Arts instructors, 4th degree black belt Sensei Donald , and Early Childhood Educator, Maraya . As a special treat to the younger children, Pooh or Tigger will meet and greet your children at the end of class promoting their safety education and to cheer your little ones on!

Family is encouraged to watch. Classes run for approximately an hour and a half.

Costs: $250.00 per group of 50 children
Discount for larger groups please call for our rates

Please call 413-789-1821 for more details.

Course Options

A custom program can be put together to address the needs of your school or workplace. Your privacy, safety, and security are protected at all times by Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Center of Self Defense. Call or email to arrange a meeting or set up a phone consultation. Sensei Donald , President of Villari’s School of Self Defense handles all communications personally.

HALLOWEEN SAFETY TIPS

Children should...

-- Travel in small groups and be accompanied by an adult

-- Only go to well lit houses and Never go inside a strangers house

-- Have all treats inspected carefully before eating them

-- Avoid dark streets and alleyways

Parents should...

-- Supervise children under 12 and establish a curfew for older children

-- Make sure their child's costume is short enough to prevent tripping

-- Know who their child is trick or treating with and what route they will be taking

-- Teach their children to walk on sidewalks or the left side of the street if sidewalks are unavailable

And last but not least we wish everyone a Safe and Fun Halloween!!

Children’s Safety Awareness Seminars

Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Studio of Self Defense is now sponsoring Safety Awareness & Self Defense Seminars for Schools and Children's Activities Groups in Western Massachusetts. The Seminars are open to all Parents and Children ages 3 to 12.

Topics of Discussion:

• Preparing your child for the World Outside

• What is a Stranger

• Going to School Safely

• Strangers and their lures

• Being followed by a Stranger

• Strangers on the Playground

• Home Alone

• Lost at the Mall

Seminars will also instruction Parents and Children on a few basic Escape and Self Defense Techniques.

Costs: $300.00 per group of 50 children
Discount for larger groups please call for our rates 413-789-1821

Course Options

A custom program can be put together to address the needs of your school or workplace. Your privacy, safety, and security are protected at all times by Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Center of Self Defense. Call or email to arrange a meeting or set up a phone consultation. Sensei Donald, President of Villari’s School of Self Defense handles all communications personally.

REALTOR SAFETY & SELF DEFENSE

Preparation - Prevention - Protection

Sensei Donald 4th Degree Black Belt Instructor teaches safety and self defense skills to real estate agents to enhance their safety while in the office or out in the field. Real estate agents can be especially at risk when working alone in the office, showing properties, and conducting open houses.

The seminar location can be provided by Villari’s Self Defense Center, or the seminar can be held at your office or "on-site" at one of your properties.

Topics Include:

• Situational Awareness and Mental Preparation

• Risk Assessment and Avoidance

• Personal Safety Devices

• Practical “Hands-On” personal protection training against a variety of assault scenarios. Create a plan for circumstances where you might have to defend yourself, and be prepared to use it.

- Verbalization and De-escalation techniques

- Escapes from common grabs and holds

- Strikes to vulnerable target areas

- Defense against a violent sudden assault

Always remember that no sale, and no amount of money is worth risking your life!

2.5 Hour Safety & Self Defense Seminar
Fee: $35.00 per person

Course Options

A custom program can be put together to address the needs of your school or workplace. Your privacy, safety, and security are protected at all times by Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Center of Self Defense. Call or email to arrange a meeting or set up a phone consultation. Sensei Donald, President of Villari’s School of Self Defense handles all communications personally.

Refuse To Be a Victim
Learn to Protect Yourself Now!

Specializing in Self Defense Training for
Men, Women, and Families

You Have The Right To Protect Yourself

3 Keys To Unlock Your Personal Safety:

PREPARATION – PREVENTION – PROTECTION

PREPARATION:

The odds of you being attacked are in direct relation to your preparation and willingness to fight back. Situational awareness is one of the most important keys to your safety. Develop and maintain awareness by learning a simple strategy that allows you to remain alert and on-guard at all times, even when you may be at your most vulnerable. Complacency can get you seriously injured or killed. We stress realistic reality-based training, but you must first engage in reality-based living! Prepare yourself mentally and physically to defend you and your family. Be habitually prepared to protect yourself at all times, and you will probably never have to!

PREVENTION:

Being prepared and practicing sound safety habits will go a long way towards preventing crime. It is certainly much easier to avoid a dangerous situation, than to get out of one once you are in it. Learn how to keep safe while out in public, in your vehicle and in your home. Universal safety precautions, whether they consist of Personal Safety Devices or just good sound judgment, is another important key to keeping you safe.

PROTECTION:

If FORCE is going to be used, make it by you in your defense. If someone tries to hurt you or your family, it’s time to pull out all of the stops. ARE YOU PREPARED? Learn simple yet extremely effective techniques in a realistic training environment. Scenario-based training strategies has proven to be the most effective training method available.

Topics Include:

• Situational Awareness and Mental Preparation

• Risk Assessment and Avoidance

• Use of Force Legal Issues

• Personal Safety Devices

• Practical “Hands-On” personal protection training against a variety of assault scenarios.

- Verbalization and De-escalation techniques

- Escapes from common grabs and holds

- Strikes to vulnerable target areas

- Defense against a violent sudden assault

2-Hour Seminar (Interactive Lecture and Self Defense Demonstration) 40.00 per person.

Course Options

A custom program can be put together to address the needs of your school or workplace. Your privacy, safety, and security are protected at all times by Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Center of Self Defense. Call or email to arrange a meeting or set up a phone consultation. Sensei Donald, President of Villari’s School of Self Defense handles all communications personally.

WORKPLACE SAFETY AND SELF DEFENSE

In order to help ensure that your place of employment remains a safe place to work and visit, everyone should be involved in learning safe business practices and personal safety. Our business safety and self defense programs prepare employees to respond appropriately to threatening situations while at work or beyond.

Situational awareness is one of the most important keys to your safety. Develop and maintain awareness by leaning a simple strategy that allows you to remain alert and on-guard at all times, especially when you may be at your most vulnerable.

Act and respond confidently while walking through a dark parking lot, dealing with a threatening or aggressive client, customer or coworker, or dealing with the many other potentially dangerous situations faced daily. Lower employee anxiety and increase self-confidence through the training options offered.

Training programs range from lectures & demonstrations to full participation in force-on-force training programs of various lengths. The force-on-force training allows participants to learn how to protect themselves, in realistic situations, against a padded assailant (instructor). The training can be conducted in your workplace or a location provided by us. The value in conducting the training in your workplace is that the strategies and physical techniques have an environmental and situational anchor in which the participant can draw from during the stress of an encounter.

Develop Team Building through peer support and positive reinforcement during the physical training exercises. When participants go through the program with coworkers, peer support, and workplace communication skills are enhanced.

Topics Covered:

• Situational Awareness and Mental Preparation

• Risk Assessment and Avoidance

• Verbal and Physical De-escalation Techniques

• Developing and Implementing a Safety Plan

• Crime Prevention

• Practical "Hands-On" Personal Protection Training

• Defense Against a Violent Sudden Physical Assault

• Physical Intervention Skills (Third Party Protection)

• Definition of Reasonable Force

• Types and Use of Reasonable Force In The Workplace

• Workplace Violence

• Situational Training Exercises

• Documenting the Use of Force

2.5 hour seminar 40.00 per person

Course Options

A custom program can be put together to address the needs of your school or workplace. Your privacy, safety, and security are protected at all times by Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Center of Self Defense. Call or email to arrange a meeting or set up a phone consultation. Sensei Donald, President of Villari’s School of Self Defense handles all communications personally.

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

Every school administrator should develop, and then provide training to, a policy for their schools on the use of reasonable force. The mission of every school is to create a safe and secure environment where all students are enabled to achieve their full potential and to be educated with respect and dignity. School administrators have a responsibility towards the students and staff under their direction and should take all reasonable steps to ensure that their welfare and safety is preserved.

The aim of policy development and training is:

- To create a learning and teaching environment in which young people and adults feel safe.

- To protect every person in the school community from harm.

- To protect all students against any form of physical intervention, which is unnecessary, inappropriate, excessive or harmful.

- To put in place guidance for staff so that they are clear about the circumstances in which they might use reasonable force intervention techniques and how such reasonable force might be applied.

Topics Covered:

• Risk Assessment

• Verbal and Physical De-escalation Techniques

• Definition of Reasonable Force

• Types and Use of Reasonable Force

• Situational Training Exercises

• Documenting the Use of Force

Reasonable force should be limited to emergency situations and used only as a last resort in situations where; a student assaults another student or staff member, students are fighting, when a student is at risk of causing injury or damage. Physical force of any type should never be used as discipline or punishment, or used as a substitute for good behavior management.

Course Length: 4 Hour, 6 Hour, & 8 Hour Programs

Course Options

A custom program can be put together to address the needs of your school or workplace. Your privacy, safety, and security are protected at all times by Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Center of Self Defense. Call or email to arrange a meeting or set up a phone consultation. Sensei Donald, President of Villari’s School of Self Defense handles all communications personally.

10 Personal Safety Tips

1. Fundamentals; Body language is 55% of communications. That’s your walk, posture, facial expressions and eye contact. Awareness is being alert to your surroundings at all times. Intuition is when the hair on the back of your neck stands on end. Voice tone and pitch equal 35% of communications. The way a person communicates physically and verbally can determine whether or not a predator deems them a good target.

2. Prevent Abductions; When returning to a parked car, scan the area around your car, be alert to suspicious activity. Be aware of vans. Abductors and rapist open up the side doors and pull in their victims.

3. Never Use Your Keys As A Weapon; Contrary to popular belief your keys are not a good weapon. Using your keys as a weapon can injure your hand, the keys can break, you lose your “key to safety”, you lose access to your car and home which are safe havens. Unless it’s a LARGE key. Then it’s a good weapon.

4. Prevent Home Invasions; You tell your children not to talk to strangers, so why do you open the door to a total stranger? Home-invaders pose as delivery people, public workers, or people in distress. Install peepholes, talk through the door. Under no circumstances do you open the door unless you get phone numbers to call their superiors. If someone is in distress tell him or her you will call the police for them.

5. Safety On The Streets; One dollar bills and change in an easily accessible pocket. Then if someone tries to rob you, you can throw the “chump change” several feet away. The robber will draw his attention to it giving you time to escape. Do not fight over material items.

6. What To Do If Attacked By A Date Rapist; If he won’t let you go, gouge his eyes out! Fight as hard as you can and as determinedly as you would if he was a stranger. By assaulting you, he has crossed the line, and now he is a stranger. Remember: You are worth fighting for! If all else fails, you can always let him kiss you, then bite down on his lip till your teeth meet!

7. Safety In Your Car; In the event of a minor accident, stop only in a well-lit area. Carjackers often provoke such “accidents” just to get a victim to stop. Do NOT stop on a deserted, dark street. Drive to a police station or a gas station. Use a cell phone and call 911.

8. Home Safe Home; Consider a second line or a cell phone in your bedroom. That’s because burglars often remove a telephone from the receiver when they enter a home. Of course, an alarm system activated while you are sleeping will prevent a burglar from getting this far. Newer alarms have cellular options, a safeguard even if the phone lines are cut.

9. Vacation/Business Traveler Safety; Be suspicious of a call from the hotel desk just after checking in requesting verification of your credit card number “because the imprint was unreadable.” A thief may have watched you enter the hotel room and called from the guest phone in the lobby. Never open your hotel room to anyone.

10. Telephone Security; Protect your calling card number. When punching in that number, be wary of everyone in the area. Sometimes the guy standing at the phone next to you is talking to his accomplice and telling him your number. In an airport thieves could be videotaping a “going away” couple right behind you as you punch in your digits.

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

Every school administrator should develop, and then provide training to, a policy for their schools on the use of reasonable force. The mission of every school is to create a safe and secure environment where all students are enabled to achieve their full potential and to be educated with respect and dignity. School administrators have a responsibility towards the students and staff under their direction and should take all reasonable steps to ensure that their welfare and safety is preserved.

The aim of policy development and training is:

- To create a learning and teaching environment in which young people and adults feel safe.

- To protect every person in the school community from harm.

- To protect all students against any form of physical intervention, which is unnecessary, inappropriate, excessive or harmful.

- To put in place guidance for staff so that they are clear about the circumstances in which they might use reasonable force intervention techniques and how such reasonable force might be applied.

Topics Covered:

• Risk Assessment

• Verbal and Physical De-escalation Techniques

• Definition of Reasonable Force

• Types and Use of Reasonable Force

• Situational Training Exercises

• Documenting the Use of Force

Reasonable force should be limited to emergency situations and used only as a last resort in situations where; a student assaults another student or staff member, students are fighting, when a student is at risk of causing injury or damage. Physical force of any type should never be used as discipline or punishment, or used as a substitute for good behavior management.

Course Length: 4 Hour, 6 Hour, & 8 Hour Programs

Course Options

A custom program can be put together to address the needs of your school or workplace. Your privacy, safety, and security are protected at all times by Funtastic Characters and Villari’s Center of Self Defense. Call or email to arrange a meeting or set up a phone consultation. Sensei Donald, President of Villari’s School of Self Defense handles all communications personally.

10 Personal Safety Tips

1. Fundamentals; Body language is 55% of communications. That’s your walk, posture, facial expressions and eye contact. Awareness is being alert to your surroundings at all times. Intuition is when the hair on the back of your neck stands on end. Voice tone and pitch equal 35% of communications. The way a person communicates physically and verbally can determine whether or not a predator deems them a good target.

2. Prevent Abductions; When returning to a parked car, scan the area around your car, be alert to suspicious activity. Be aware of vans. Abductors and rapist open up the side doors and pull in their victims.

3. Never Use Your Keys As A Weapon; Contrary to popular belief your keys are not a good weapon. Using your keys as a weapon can injure your hand, the keys can break, you lose your “key to safety”, you lose access to your car and home which are safe havens. Unless it’s a LARGE key. Then it’s a good weapon.

4. Prevent Home Invasions; You tell your children not to talk to strangers, so why do you open the door to a total stranger? Home-invaders pose as delivery people, public workers, or people in distress. Install peepholes, talk through the door. Under no circumstances do you open the door unless you get phone numbers to call their superiors. If someone is in distress tell him or her you will call the police for them.

5. Safety On The Streets; One dollar bills and change in an easily accessible pocket. Then if someone tries to rob you, you can throw the “chump change” several feet away. The robber will draw his attention to it giving you time to escape. Do not fight over material items.

6. What To Do If Attacked By A Date Rapist; If he won’t let you go, gouge his eyes out! Fight as hard as you can and as determinedly as you would if he was a stranger. By assaulting you, he has crossed the line, and now he is a stranger. Remember: You are worth fighting for! If all else fails, you can always let him kiss you, then bite down on his lip till your teeth meet!

7. Safety In Your Car; In the event of a minor accident, stop only in a well-lit area. Carjackers often provoke such “accidents” just to get a victim to stop. Do NOT stop on a deserted, dark street. Drive to a police station or a gas station. Use a cell phone and call 911.

8. Home Safe Home; Consider a second line or a cell phone in your bedroom. That’s because burglars often remove a telephone from the receiver when they enter a home. Of course, an alarm system activated while you are sleeping will prevent a burglar from getting this far. Newer alarms have cellular options, a safeguard even if the phone lines are cut.

9. Vacation/Business Traveler Safety; Be suspicious of a call from the hotel desk just after checking in requesting verification of your credit card number “because the imprint was unreadable.” A thief may have watched you enter the hotel room and called from the guest phone in the lobby. Never open your hotel room to anyone.

10. Telephone Security; Protect your calling card number. When punching in that number, be wary of everyone in the area. Sometimes the guy standing at the phone next to you is talking to his accomplice and telling him your number. In an airport thieves could be videotaping a “going away” couple right behind you as you punch in your digits.