CHOICES - a brief alcohol abuse prevention and harm reduction program for college students involving interactive journaling. The CHOICES program involves a 90-minute, peer-facilitated class. Throughout the course students are presented with information and then they are able to reflect on what they have learned as it relates to their choices about drinking in their personal journals. The CHOICES program is presented in a non-confrontational manner that enables students to make their own decisions about alcohol consumption. Because the central focus of this program is to help students make informed choices the journal is set up to provide participants with information and then they are asked to apply what they have learned in a series of self-reflective questions.

Refuse to Be A Victim - A three-hour class that presents crime prevention, theft reduction, personal awareness, and home and office security tips and concepts. These classes are free and open to the campus and local community.

Bicycle Safety - Police Officers assigned to the Police Mountain Bike Patrol offer classes on bicycle safety and skills to a variety of age groups to include pre-school and elementary age.

National Bike Registry - NBR is a program that offers an informational link between people whose bikes are stolen and the police who recover them. For more information visit: http://www.uccs.edu/~pusafety/police/prevention/bike_registry.shtml

Office Watch - Office complexes are given a Security survey. Office personnel are trained to recognize and confront suspicious persons and to notify the police.

WeTip - Anonymous reporting system for crime, drugs, gangs, graffiti. (800) 78-CRIME http://www.uccs.edu/~pusafety/police/prevention/wetip.htm

Rape Aggression Defense -- (R.A.D.) - RAD is a hands-on, self defense, and risk reduction education program. It is designed to teach the student realistic ways to defend and protect oneself from sexual and abductive assaults. University Police offer the following R.A.D. self-defense courses which are taught by nationally-certified instructors: www.uccs.edu/~pusafety/police/prevention/rad.shtml

Basic Self Defense: Twelve-hour course for women designed to teach empowerment, Risk Reduction and self-defense techniques.

Advanced Self-Defense: Incorporates skills learned in Basic Self-Defense. This sixteen-hour course, for women only, adds higher stress environments and advanced defensive skills.

Key Chain Defense: This four-hour women-only class teaches defensive techniques using both a key chain and flashlight.

In 2009 the University Police taught: 12 Basic RAD Classes and 1 Women's Studies 290 Class with a total attendance of 90 women. For more information, visit the Public Safety website at www.uccs.edu/~pusafety/police/prevention/rad.shtml