Our analysts are dedicated to helping schools internalize school safety expertise rather than creating profits or long-term reliance on our services.

• Review our credentials and you will see years of service as practitioners, rather than consulting experience, as our primary backgrounds.
• Read our books and you will see the concepts we first developed are now taught by most experts in the field of school safety and even by some instructors in other fields.
• Call our clients and you will find they have been fully satisfied with our services.

We have never accepted any form of compensation to endorse any commercial product or service, so we can provide neutral recommendations for equipment and service companies. For us, it is about kids, not dollars.

In addition to our for-fee services, you will find that we also provide many free resources and we will work with you to provide any technical assistance you may need for free, via e-mail or phone.

Standard course length: Three days

Learn how to… 

identify a variety of hazards, critical emergency preplanning features, and ways to improve the climate, safety, supervision of students, access control, building design for future construction projects, and to enhance the learning environment of the school. 

The training utilizes the all hazards approach and will cover a variety of hazards ranging from slips and falls, gravity hazards, bullying, to fires, acts of violence, terrorism and other types of crisis situations.  The classroom training will also include a thorough overview of first- and second- generation CPTED (Crime Prevention through Environmental Design). CPTED is a research-based body of knowledge that is focused on creating improvements in security while enhancing the feeling of safety by focusing on the building environment and how people utilize that environment.

Prevention of School Weapons Assaults

Standard course length: one hour to one day

Based on a program originally developed for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, many attendees rate this as the most comprehensive program of its type. This session examines the wide array of school weapons assaults rather than focusing solely on deadly yet extremely rare multiple victim school shootings. A wide array of best practices based on the instructor’s proven field record as a school district chief of police in a school system that originally developed a number of techniques that have become standard in the field. Techniques that have been used to successfully thwart numerous planned school shootings, bombings and suicides will be covered. 

Intended audiences:

• School administrators
• Law enforcement and security officers
• Court and probation officials
• Community partner agencies
• Government officials