Charles Couny, Maryland

Brochures and guides are provided on stalking, stalking across the state line, cyberstalking, and technology safety, from the county government website.

This comprehensive sexual assault and DV program provides crisis planning, counseling, advocacy, and access to shelter. They also offer education and awareness to the community. They offer services at all four Calvert County Behavioral Health locations: Chesapeake Beach, Prince Frederick, Barstow, and Lusby.

Hotline 24/7 Calvert Crisis Response: 1-877-467-5628

Call to schedule an appointment: 410-535-5400, x384

Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu was created for self-defense and survival in life threatening situations, allowing a smaller, weaker individual to overcome an attack from a larger and stronger person. Through the use of technique, timing, and leverage; anyone, of any age, size, or skill, can defend themselves with maximum efficiency and minimal effort. This program is designed to empower you to effectively defend yourself, and loved ones in life threatening situations. This class is geared toward skills for realistic, 100% effective, lifesaving self-defense techniques, not competitions. However, classes are taught in a fun and completely safe environment. Neither age, conditioning, or experience is a prerequisite. The classes follow a rotating curriculum, and students learn over 130 techniques. Classes are taught by presenting a problem, showing a simple solution, with student drills to master the techniques, building muscle memory and reflexes to prepare them to react properly in a self-defense situation. Most students are amazed at how simple, easy, and effective our techniques are. All techniques are based on the theory of natural body movement.

The Abused Person Program provides guidance, shelter, education and counseling to victims of abuse and their families. Mental Health Services provide alcohol counseling, physical and speech therapy, as well as individual, couple, family, and group mental health counseling.

The Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Program provides crisis intervention and individual, family and group counseling. They also provide DV victims and batterers counseling as well as emergency shelter. They provide intervention follow-up and court accompaniment for DV cases.

The Abused Person Program
Hotline: 410-535-1121
Direct: 410-535-5400  ext. 384

Mental Health Services: 301-475-4286

Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Program: 301-863-6661

The following crisis support walk-in services are available at the St. Mary’s County Health Hub, located at 21625 Great Mills Road Lexington Park, MD 20653. Services are available Monday – Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Individuals who are in need of immediate counseling are able to walk in for assistance. Services include:

• Crisis support walk-in services including short-term counseling
• Assistance in coordinating ongoing treatment with behavioral health professionals in the community
• Linkage to other needed community resources and supports
• Professional assessment of mental health needs
• Supportive connections to peers who have lived experiences with substance use and mental health recovery

Non-emergency 24/7 Crisis warmline: 410-768-5522

The "Warmline" is a local 'hotline' that offers callers emotional support and is staffed by trained phone counselors to assist with mental health, substance misuse, grief counseling and referral services.

These service are not for emergencies. Persons who are actively suicidal, homicidal, experiencing extreme psychosis, incapacitated, or those who may need medical care and/or immediate medications should seek emergency care such as 9-1-1 for medical emergencies or 9-8-8 for mental health emergencies. 

The Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) Course is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques for women. It is a comprehensive, women-only course that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and risk avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense training. R.A.D. is not a Martial Arts program. These courses are taught by certified R.A.D. instructors. R.A.D. is currently being taught at many colleges and universities throughout the country. The growing, widespread acceptance of this system is primarily due to the ease, simplicity and effectiveness of the tactics, solid research, legal defense and unique teaching methodology. R.A.D. is dedicated to teaching women defensive concepts and techniques against various type of assault, by utilizing easy, effective and proven self-defense tactics. This system of realistic defense will provide a woman with the knowledge to make an educated decision about resistance.

The Rape Aggression Defense System (R.A.D.) is a program of realistic, self-defense tactics and techniques. The R.A.D. System is a comprehensive course for women that begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense training. R.A.D. is not a Martial Arts program. The course ending with an opportunity to test skills during an optional simulated attack. A certified R.A.D. Instructor who provides students with a workbook/reference manual teaches the course. The R.A.D. System's curriculum is taught at over 1,400 colleges and universities, police departments, local transit companies, military bases, women’s centers, rape crisis centers, and independent locations across the United States and Canada. *Because R.A.D. is an international alliance, any R.A.D. graduate from any class in the U.S. and Canada can attend another instructor’s class for practice, free of charge, for the rest of her life!

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