This course is designed to educate school based law enforcement personnel, school administrators, and school staff to effectively respond to a school-based emergency. This course will focus on stakeholder’s collaboration on planning, preparing, communicating, responding, and recovering from a school-based incident. This course will allow stakeholders an opportunity to collaborate, communicate, and share information, to achieve coordinated awareness of, prevention of, protection against, and response to school-based incidents.

This training is designed to help school districts respond to and manage a wide-range of critical incidents. Participants will learn who should be involved in and how to form a school-based Crisis Response Team. The course provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of crisis response teams based on the NIMS format; initial crisis response tips; incident command and working with emergency responders; preparing crisis kits and assessing equipment needs; planning for exercises/drills; communicating with families, etc.

This course designed to provide school staff members with a basic awareness of their responsibilities in preparing for and responding to an active shooter situation in their school. This course covers standard procedures for effective school staff interaction with law enforcement during active shooter situations.

This basic awareness course designed for school staff, law enforcement, or community members to define, recognize, and respond to bullying situations. The course will explore the complexities of bullying by examining its characteristics, development and underlying causes. It will examine the roles of victims, bullies and bystanders and offer solutions to deal with each.

This course provides school staff with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to refine or develop an all-hazards school Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and to identify how to train and exercise the school EOP. This course provides he school guidance for developing an emergency operations plan and explains how to utilize the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as the foundation for planning and building partnerships with outside agencies such as law enforcement, fire, and emergency management.

This course introduces and provides an overview of both the Incident Command System (ICS) and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) This course provides training on and resources for persons involved with emergency planning, response and recovery efforts for schools that require a basic understanding of the Incident Command System (ICS). It will provide information on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) which is a mandatory nationwide template to enable all government, private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work together during a crisis. This course will review ICS and NIMS principles that can be applied to school-based incidents and improve communication with emergency first responders.

This course provides information and guidance on how training and exercising contributes to school preparedness efforts. It will examine how exercises and training play a vital role in your school’s preparedness by enabling faculty, staff, students and the whole community to test and validate crisis plans and capabilities, and identify both operational gaps and areas for improvement. Participants will have an opportunity to conduct and design a tabletop exercise as well as how to evaluate its results.

This course can be presented in a 40 or 24 hour format and is designed to provide the newer school based police officer / deputy with insight and skills for functioning in the educational setting. Our staff is aware that no police academy in the country prepares an officer for the unique assignment of school based policing.  Those taking this course will be provided education on a variety of school based topics, including Special Education, Homeland Security for Schools, Community Oriented Policing Concepts, School Crisis Planning, SRO/Administrator relations, mentoring students, instructional techniques and more. This course is also recommended for School Administrators, DARE/GREAT Officers, School Resource Officers, School Security Professionals and School Probation Officers.

This is an executive-level presentation for school administrators and law enforcement officials focusing on  the strategic- and executive-level issues and challenges related to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a school based catastrophic incident.

The course provides an excellent opportunity to share proven strategies and practices and apply lessons learned from past natural and human-made disasters.

This course develops school and district athletic department staff, facility management personnel, campus public safety personnel, emergency response supervisors, and others involved in school based sports and special event management to better prepare for, manage, and recover from incidents that could occur during a sporting event or other special event. The course provides participants the skills necessary to effectively identify risk and mitigation strategies; manage incidents by applying and implementing incident management planning and resource management principles through a multi-disciplinary management team approach as described in the National Incident Management System (NIMS); and identify techniques that can improve the resiliency of the event venue. 

This course was developed to train teams of school officials, law enforcement and private sector security partners in developing the knowledge and ability to evaluate and identify weaknesses within the school campus and develop assessment reports with recommendations for security improvements. This course has been developed to allow school districts and universities to form highly trained safety assessment teams which will be able to return to their district or university and conduct school vulnerability assessments without the expense of hiring a private consultant and return. These highly trained teams will also be able to return to their school or district and train additional employees on the completing school safety/vulnerability assessments.

This highly interactive and hands on course will include an overview of school campus security measures, School Based Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) and school safety and security national best practices. This course is a Must Attend for any staff member(s) responsible for school safety and security, is tasked with conducting safety/vulnerability surveys or full security assessments, developing or reviewing school security policies and procedures, as well as the security or issuing of mobile technology.