On-Site Active Shooter, Mental Health Crisis Intervention & De-Escalation Training:
Class, Seminar, or Workshop (1-8 Hours)

At the end of the day, the training your team receives—and the actions they take under pressure—can determine the outcome of a workplace violence incident, active shooter event, medical emergency, or other critical incident.​

Our violence prevention curriculum is built around practical planning, prevention, de-escalation, crisis intervention, threat assessment, and emergency response strategies designed to help organizations recognize and address violence before it becomes an emergency—and respond effectively when prevention is no longer possible.

Our training focuses on two primary patterns of aggressive human behavior: reactive aggression and targeted aggression. Understanding the difference is critical to effective workplace violence prevention and behavioral threat assessment.

Within these patterns, individuals may progress through three recognizable stages of escalation:

Anxiety → Testing → Attack

Recognizing the behavioral indicators associated with each stage gives employees, supervisors, HR professionals, security personnel, and organizational leaders opportunities to intervene before a situation becomes violent.

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Our core programs address each point along that continuum:

• Violent Intruder / Active Shooter MED Training — Attack Stage: Practical emergency response training focused on surviving and responding to a violent intruder or active shooter event, including immediate medical response and life-saving interventions.

• De-Escalation & Mental Health Crisis Intervention — Anxiety and Testing Stages: Training designed to help personnel recognize escalating behavior, communicate effectively, manage conflict, de-escalate aggressive individuals, and intervene during behavioral or mental health crises.

• Threat Assessment Team & Emergency Operations Planning — Prevention: Development of organizational threat assessment capabilities, workplace violence prevention strategies, reporting procedures, emergency action plans, and Emergency Operations Plans (EOPs) designed to identify, assess, and mitigate threats before violence occurs.

• Security, Search/Seizure, & Administrative Safety Training
   

Our approach goes beyond simply teaching people what to do.

We train people to recognize what is happening, decide what needs to happen next, and act when it matters.

Participants initially engage their deliberate decision-making processes as they learn new recognition, communication, and response behaviors. Through realistic scenarios and facilitated practice, those behaviors are reinforced until participants can access them more effectively under stress.

The objective is simple: when a crisis occurs, your team should not have to figure everything out for the first time.

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Our instructors bring professional experience and training across Law Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, Emergency Management, workplace violence prevention, crisis response, and emergency medical response disciplines.

Every program is customized to your organization and delivered on-site, allowing training to reflect your actual facility, personnel, policies, risks, and operational environment.

Our programs have been successfully implemented in city halls, courthouses, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, international ports, corporate offices, and other complex work environments.

Prevent violence. Recognize threats. De-escalate conflict. Respond decisively. Build a safer organization.

• Contracted Emergency Managers

  • Our organization provides qualified emergency managers and accredited instructors who can be directly assigned to help your organization identify workplace safety hazards, develop plans and policies to address those hazards, and empower your team through evidence-based training. This includes recommendations on the most up-to-date physical security practices, industrial and chemical hygiene, EHS, technologies, and incident management systems. Available 24/7, our emergency managers prioritize your needs to accomplish your safety mission in-house, both through on-site and remote work. 

• Onsite & Remote Training Programs

  • All of your employees need training in De-Escalation, Mental Health Crisis Intervention and Responding to Violence ("Active Shooter Training").

  • Your managers and specialty teams may need advanced training in threat assessment teams, investigation processes, use of force, and other workplace safety practices. Our on-site, in-person De-escalation, Responding to Violence: MED, Incident Command (IS-100, 200 & 700), and Threat Assessment Team training courses are highly sought-after sessions. ​Use of Force sessions, including certification in restraint, OC spray, and control/defensive tactics are available. Force-on-Force SIMS training can be provided to agencies upon request, with advanced firearm certification. 

• On-Site Risk, Safety and Security Assessments

  • Identify the safety risks most pressing to your organization, and receive​ a report of recommended changes to policy, procedures, physical security (CPTED), technology systems, fire/life/safety equipment, training programs, and other tools your team can implement to reduce or eliminate hazards at minimal cost.

• Policy and Procedures: Review and Model Documents

  • Your company's legal backbone should align with best practices and current workplace safety standards. ​Our team provides model documents for your modification, adoption and distribution, or can provide suggested modifications to your current procedures.

• Threat Assessment Team Facilitation

  • Responding to threats or concerns regarding acts of violence requires a professionally led investigation​, a close partnership with several agencies, a sensitivity of communication, and a standardized best-practice approach. Let our emergency managers guide your team to safety through a multi-jurisdictional threat assessment team process, proven effective with students and adults. 

• Expert Witness Requests

  • Our master instructors and emergency managers serve as expert witnesses ​in a variety of settings, with litigation stemming from workplace violence, inadequate training, improper privacy intrusions or simply as best-practice consultation regarding workplace safety. 

• Drill and Exercise Facilitation

  • Engaging your team through fun and interactive drills, table-top exercises and functional/full-scale ​exercises improves the working relationship between stakeholders, your teams response during a real event, and cultivates buy-in among your employees regarding your safety program. Our team works with you to build and execute safe drills that will elevate your safety approach to the next level. ​