Our Next Safety Awareness Workshop Is Wednesday, August 31 from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

To help address any concerns you may have about your personal safety while on public transit or out in the community, VNS Health has partnered with a local nonprofit organization called the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) to provide a series of self-defense safety workshops.

These educational safety awareness workshops provide precautions, verbal strategies, and physical techniques to increase safety and teach you how to handle potential conflicts.

Our safety awareness workshops are open to all VNS Health employees. Please note, though, that in order to attend you will need to register — which you can easily do by clicking on the links below. 

Here are the next two safety awareness workshops:

• Virtual Intro to Public Transit Safety Workshop (Zoom): Wednesday, August 31st, 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. To register, click here.

• Empowerment Self-Defense 101 ­Safety Awareness Workshop (in-person at our 220 East 42nd Street Office and also streamed live online): Wednesday, September 14th, 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. To register, click here. 
  • (Please note that this in-person workshop is limited to the first 70 team members who register for it. Team members who register will be notified to confirm that they’ll be attending. The workshop will be streamed for all those who can’t be there in person. It’ll also be recorded so you can watch it at a later date.)

Missed last week’s de-escalation safety workshop?  Don’t worry — you can watch a recording of it on the Safety & Security Intranet site by clicking here. Please note that the recording will only be available for viewing until September 30th.

For a more detailed description of each workshop, please click here.