presented by Michael Dorn, Dr. Shepherd, Russell Bentley or Chris Dorn

Typical presentation time from one to four hours

 This dynamic, fast paced, informative and fascinating session will help dispel many of common the school safety myths that dominate the American media and popular perception of school staff, students and parents. Attendees will hear a brief historical overview of major school safety incidents followed by tangible and practical real world action steps to make school a safer place where children can learn more effectively. This session will demonstrate that problems with safety, discipline and order directly affect test scores using a fact based rather than a fear based approach to school safety.

Intended audiences:

• School administrators
• Teachers
• School support staff
• Public safety personnel involved with school safety
• School board members and elected officials
• Parents
• Student government groups

“Michael Dorn’s standing ovation keynote presentation for the 2005 North Carolina D.A.R.E. Officer’s Association was powerful.  His extensive work with my school district and community has had a profound impact on the safety of children in Jones County Schools.”

Chief Shawn Williams
Jones County North Carolina Public Schools Police Department

Standard course length: two days

Learn how to …

identify a variety of hazards, critical emergency preplanning features, and ways to improve the climate, safety and learning environment of the school. 

The training utilizes the all hazards approach and will cover a variety of hazards ranging from bullying, to fires, acts of violence, terrorism and other types of crisis situations.  
The classroom training will also include a thorough overview of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) as adapted to the K12 environment. 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 it. This training includes information on how to establish or improve on access control not only for the perimeter of the school but within the school itself covering the importance of security of internal areas. The sessions emphasize ways to protect sensitive information such as student records, personal employee information and other types of information that can be easily accessed in most schools using surreptitious methods.

This highly interactive training includes practical exercises where trainees visit schools to be shown how to conduct a tactical site survey and to apply what they have learned. Attendees will also receive an electronic version of the Safe Havens International Tactical Site Survey Checklist. 

Intended audiences: This training is designed to be relevant and usable for personnel from a wide range of disciplines including:

• School administrators
• Teachers
• School support staff
• School mental health professionals
• School security officers
• Risk managers
• Emergency management and homeland security personnel
• Public safety personnel involved with school safety
• School board members and elected officials
• Parents
• Student assemblies

Standard course length: two days

Proper school design can dramatically improve safety and the perceptions of students, staff and parents regarding the safety of a school. Utilizing concepts such as first- and second-generation crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), Safe Havens experts can help reduce the cost of new facility construction and major renovation projects while helping our clients design and build more attractive, easy to supervise, secure and maintain schools while dramatically enhancing school climate.

Safe Havens analysts have trained thousands of architects, building planning team members, school facilities planning team members, law enforcement officers and facilities personnel on safe school design concepts. These training sessions combine interactive and interesting classroom instruction with practical field work to create a highly effective training methodology suited for architects, school administrators, school security and law enforcement personnel, school planning team members and others who are interested in reducing the cost of building projects while creating more attractive schools that provide a warm and welcoming climate while reducing the risk of crime and violence.

Intended audiences:

• Architects
• School administrators
• School security and law enforcement personnel
• School planning team members