Protect Her — before the crisis, not after.

Most safety programming tells women what to fear. Protect Her teaches them what to look for — and what to do about it.

What Protect Her covers

Every Protect Her session is prevention-first and practical. Members leave with skills they can use the same night — not a list of rules they'll forget by morning.

• Personal safety & situational awareness — reading environments, trusting instincts, and hands-on self-defense fundamentals taught by qualified instructors.
• Red-flag recognition — emotional manipulation, coercion, isolation, and predatory behavior, named plainly and spotted early.
• Consent & coercion awareness — what real consent looks like, how coercion disguises itself, and how to hold your own line.
• Digital safety — location tracking, password control, unwanted contact, image threats, and preserving evidence if something goes wrong.
• Bystander awareness — the five tools every sister can use: Direct, Distract, Delegate, Document, and Delay — with safety first, always.

Protect Her across the year

Safety isn't a fall-only conversation. Protect Her programming appears twice on the Sorellahood calendar:

• August–September: The Red Zone Initiative — new-member safety, campus transition, personal safety, and prevention.
• April (Sexual Assault Awareness Month): Bystander intervention, supporting a sister, and prevention — the programming campuses actively seek every spring.

Chapters on an Annual Chapter Partnership typically book the Red Zone Initiative as their year opener and SAAM programming as their spring anchor, with Equip Her and Strengthen Her sessions in between.

Prevention, never fear

Protect Her sessions are taught the Sorellahood way: feminine, modern, and peer-centered. No scare tactics, no compliance-module monotone — real talk that treats members like the capable adults they are. The goal isn't to make women afraid of college. It's to make them hard to victimize and quick to help a sister.