At its most basic level, a personal and home-protection plan is designed to help keep you physically, legally, financially and morally safe. Your ultimate goal should be to avoid violent encounters in the first place by developing an acute awareness of your surroundings and by making intelligent decisions about your actions, behaviors and precautions. The following course will help you with situational awareness, conflict avoidance and why it’s so important, mental exercises, home security tips and the color codes of awareness.