Why this address exists
You reached this page through a preserved historical URL: /html/training.html. The backlink data supplied for the restoration includes a reference from the news outlet Gothamist to the former AWSDA training page. A historic nonprofit profile on Idealist independently confirms that AWSDA offered a web-based instructor referral database.
Original directory status
Original listing not recovered. We have not obtained a complete, verifiable copy of the former directory and will not invent instructor names, contact information, training addresses, certification dates or endorsements. This page preserves the link’s educational purpose while openly identifying the missing original content.
No instructor or organization shown in newly written content here should be interpreted as a currently approved AWSDA trainer. The historic association’s present organizational status has not been established by these records.
Find and assess training today
A useful place to begin is the guide to choosing a women’s self-defense instructor. Consider the class objectives, the instructor’s relevant experience, rules around consent and contact, accommodations and clearly explained fees. A class should not promise guaranteed safety or suggest that a survivor is responsible for violence committed against them.
You can also review preparing for your first class, trauma-informed education and our instructor resources.
Sources and provenance
- Idealist’s historical organization listing — documents the existence of the training referral database.
- Gothamist: Williamsburg Rape and Robbery — listed in the supplied backlink report as linking directly to this old URL.
This is newly authored explanatory text, not a verbatim recovery of the original training.html page.