Prepare Inc.

Prepare Inc. is an educational services company that offers comprehensive, evidence-based violence prevention training and personal safety programs. Prepare programs situate violence in the social and cultural context within which it exists. Along with the broad spectrum of curriculum offered, Prepare supports the work of others in the anti-violence community. Since 1992, the company has served over 50,000 young people and adults. Prepare takes an integrated approach to personal safety and violence prevention using consistent, research-based methods, and highly trained instructors. Trainings are designed to reduce vulnerability to emotional and physical violations and violence due to age, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status, cognitive or physical ability, and more. The company’s primary prevention programs work to change beliefs and behaviors before they lead to violence: health and life skills education, anti-bias and anti-bullying programs, and social and emotional learning fundamentals. Prepare is best known for its secondary prevention Empowerment Self-Defense and personal safety courses which feature the suited instructor: IMPACT Basics and Prepare classes for kids and teens. All programs address sensitive issues in a trauma-informed and explicitly non-victim blaming manner. Prepare is a Certified B Corporation and a Certified Women-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) in the City of New York.