NEW SEMINAR FROM AMERICAN SCHOOL SAFETY:

Managing Risk—Active Shooter Incidents in Schools and Colleges

MERICAN SCHOOL SAFETY is pleased to present a new seminar, “Managing Risk—Active Shooter Incidents in Schools and Colleges.” This seminar identifies strategies and tactics that can be leveraged to build a robust, effective and defensible prevention and response plan that will save lives if pre-incident intervention efforts fail and an incident occurs at your school.

Mounting Concerns Over Ineffective Plans

Increasing numbers of parents, faculty members, and students are becoming seriously concerned that, despite wide media coverage of repeated tragic mass murders in schools, there is little or nothing in place to effectively prevent a similar incident from happening to themselves or their family members in their local school districts if a deranged individual decided to stage such an attack.

Pre-Incident Intervention Efforts Aren't Enough

In response to past tragedies, extensive studies have been devoted to identifying at risk individuals before an incident and providing interventions that would ideally guide that person away from violence. The methodologies developed from these studies have been widely implemented, yet active shooter incidents continue to happen with regularity, and they unfold in a highly predictable, consistent fashion.

Predictable Incident Patterns

In a typical event, a disturbed individual opens fire without warning in a group setting location in a school, college, or university, moving about freely and shooting often submissive victims randomly for approximately 6 to 10 minutes until the first police units arrive and intervene.

The attacker then either commits suicide, engages the police and is shot himself, or, more rarely, surrenders. When the threat is contained, police and paramedics desperately work to rescue victims and stabilize and transport the wounded within the "golden hour" time window during which advanced trauma care must begin for those with life threatening injuries if they are to survive

In most incidents, there are some victims who cannot be saved, and in all cases there are others with life changing injuries. Even the lives of those who managed to escape unharmed are altered forever.

Something Is Missing

These events happen over and over in almost exactly the same way with a few variant details, but school based preventive measures and responses have changed little. In many districts, the incident management plan consists of instituting lockdown procedures, calling 911, and waiting for police intervention. Even as police race to the scene, the attacks continue with tragic results. An honest look at the facts leads to the inescapable conclusion that what we're doing right now simply isn't working reliably enough to let reasonable people feel safe in school. Something important is missing from school security plans.

American School Safety Responds

American School Safety has partnered with the highly respected international security consultants at SafirRosetti to offer seminars that present a down to earth approach to addressing the missing elements with an intense, reality based program that starts where warning signs and pre event intervention leave off.

The presentation is designed to help administrators and faculty members understand the target selection process, the elements that influence a go / no go decision by an offender, and the dynamics that drive active shooter incidents once they begin, It goes on to examine the options for deterring attacks and minimizing casualties before public safety responders arrive by looking at the results of these tactics in historical incidents, and identifies strategies and tactics that can be leveraged to build a robust, effective and defensible prevention and response plan that will save lives if pre incident intervention efforts fail and an incident occurs at your school.

The program was developed and is delivered by Ed Kardauskas CPP, PCP, PCI, CHSIII, CAS; — senior security consultant with extensive command level operational experience in law enforcement, multiple nationally recognized security industry certifications, and many years of service in security management and international security consulting roles.

Seminar Formats

The material can be configured to be presented as a 2.5 – 3 hour element in a multi-topic seminar series, or an all-day format that includes hands on scenario simulations, breakout groups, and tabletop exercises.

Bringing the Program to Your District

Interested districts should call American School Safety at 866-531-6560 or complete the CONTACT ME form to the right for additional information including available dates in their areas, booking, fees, etc.