Navigate Prepared Sponsors Free School Safety Training

UPDATED, 10/6/20: Updated links

Navigate Prepared offers more free school safety training in 2018

With the success of their previous free school safety training workshops, Navigate Prepared is offering more training dates this Winter. I am speaking at eight Safety Summit Workshops in New Jersey, New York, Texas and Tennessee. Other dates will feature Michele Gay and her personal story as a parent of a Sandy Hook victim. Her session “School Safety: A Parent’s Perspective” will cover lessons learned from the perspective of a parent and discuss ways to improve safety.

From the Navigate-Prepared announcement on the Safety Summit Workshops:

“School and building administrators as well as first responders are invited to participate in our upcoming Safety Summit Workshops. Led by Michael Dorn, the nation’s leading school safety expert, these interactive events provide critical insights into real-world situations occurring every day, actionable steps you can implement immediately and round table discussions to deepen learning.”

Edit: 10/6/20: This post is about past training events. For more information on future events and other resources, visit:

https://navigate360.com/resources/

 

Original Post from 8/15/17: Navigate Prepared Offers free school safety training summits

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Navigate Prepared Sponsors Free School Safety Training

I am honored to be keynoting eight free school safety summits in Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania this September and October sponsored by Navigate Prepared. The events are being held to better serve their many school district clients and to provide a free resource to other school districts. I keynoted a series of similar school safety summits in Ohio and Pennsylvania last year and got excellent feedback. The summits are focused on ways to improve the emergency preparedness aspect of school safety training. This year’s seminars include updated information on emerging threats like acid “dosing” attacks and new school emergency preparedness technology.

One feature of the summits that has been extremely well-received involves splitting the attendees into groups. Each group takes turns conducting demo school safety, security and emergency preparedness assessment tours at the host school. These school safety seminars have attracted diverse audiences including a variety of types of school and public safety officials. I have been  impressed to see a number of school superintendents take the time from their busy schedules to attend. Many attendees travel from other states to attend these summits.

I look forward to these exciting events.

 

Edit: 10/6/20: This post is about past training events. For more information on future events and other resources, visit:

https://navigate360.com/resources/

 

Does Your Options-Based Active Shooter Training Meet the Standard of Care?

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Options-based active shooter training programs.

This article was recently published in College Planning and Management Magazine. Though written for a higher education audience, most if not all of the principals I described would be relevant for options-based active shooter training programs for K12 schools as well. Non-public schools should take extra care in implementing options-based active shooter training programs as they lack qualified immunity and are subject to OSHA regulations that prohibit exposing trainees to danger from injury. Safe Havens International analysts have received many complaints from school and police officials regarding injury during options-based active shooter training programs, with at least one school employee who reported being permanently disabled when his arm was crushed during a training session. The individual I spoke to stated that he still has no use of one arm though he has been through a series of five surgical procedures. He also told me that three people in his training session had to be hospitalized for injuries received during the training session.

While options-based active shooter training programs have become fairly popular, they have also been highly controversial. Currently, there are no options-based active shooter training programs that have been validated as effective. Of considerable concern, these programs are often marketed as being “best practice” which could create a significant burden should an organization have to prove that the training program meets this definition during litigation..

Our next book Preventing and Preparing for Active Shooter, Active Killer, Hate Crimes and Terrorist Attacks contains a detailed chapter on the development of effective and court-defensible training concepts for active shooter incidents.

The complete article Training for the Unthinkable – Does Your Options-Based Active Shooter Training Approach Meet Standards of Care? at: https://webcpm.com/Articles/2017/06/01/Active-Shooter-Training.aspx

 

Preventing Grooming, Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct in Schools

School Planning and Management Magazine recently published a feature article I submitted several months back. The article – Preventing Grooming, Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct in Schools is focused on concepts that school officials can use to reduce the chances that these tragic situations will occur. While the field of K12 education has made tremendous progress in this area, there are still opportunities for improvement in the way schools are designed and operated. This article focuses on design concepts, security technologies, and increased awareness that can help prevent these types of incidents.

The article can be accessed on the School Planning and Management website at: https://webspm.com/Articles/2017/06/01/Sexual-Assault.aspx