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Training Opportunities

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Participate in both in-person and virtual training opportunities with experts on how to prevent violence, respond to emergencies, provide support during mental health crises, and support victims of attacks. These trainings also help communities develop active shooter response, build their emergency operations plans, and conduct expert briefings to help communities identify individuals who may be moving towards violence. Training opportunities are available for the general public, educators, law enforcement, health care practitioners, behavioral and mental health professionals, and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.

Each set of resources below is searchable by keyword. You can also filter the results to see the resources most relevant to different stakeholder groups (key audience) and which department/agency/office provided the resource, as well as filter by subcategory.

All the information in the Prevention Resource Finder is government-owned or sponsored.

  • Department of Justice Office of Community Policing Services

    The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center (CRI-TAC) provides critical and tailored technical assistance resources to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies on a wide variety of topics including active shooter response and hate crimes. The COPS Office developed training curricula on hate crimes for line-level officers, Hate Crimes: Recognition and Reporting. The CRI-TAC/APD Hate Crimes: Recognition and Reporting line-level officer training addresses the immediate response on the scene of a potential hate or bias crime. The curriculum was developed primarily for uniformed patrol officers/deputies and first line supervisors. 

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Prevention and Preparedness Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement
    Last Updated:

  • The Department of Homeland Security Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships Digital Forums

    Digital Forums are a series of webinars hosted by the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) that convene community leaders to discuss prevention services and approaches. These events build capacity to respond to terrorist recruitment and radicalization to violence and bring together experts from government, tech companies, civil society, and communities to discuss emerging trends, build relationships, and encourage information sharing.

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Prevention and Preparedness Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3)
    Key Audience(s):
    K-12 Schools/Colleges/Universities, General Public, Law Enforcement, Mental Health/Behavioral Health/Human Services, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers Tactical Medical for First Responders Training Program

    The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers’ (FLETC) Tactical Medical for First Responders program is designed to define a Medical Threat Assessment, to include a medical plan for a tactical operation. Students will learn how to apply techniques to control life threatening bleeding during Care under Fire in a (HOT ZONE). Additionally, they will perform techniques to treat life threatening and non-life threatening injuries during Tactical Field Care in a (WARM ZONE). During the program students will demonstrate lifting, moving and extricating victims from a tactical or hostile environment during Tactical Evacuation Care. 

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Active Shooter Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement
    Last Updated:

  • Department of Justice Improving Community Preparedness to Assist Victims of Mass Violence or Domestic Terrorism Training and Technical Assistance Project

    Funded by the Office of Victims of Crime (OVC), the Improving Community Preparedness to Assist Victims of Mass Violence and Domestic Terrorism (ICP): Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) program helps communities design, augment or revise existing emergency plans by ensuring victims' issues are addressed in mass violence or terrorist incidents. Virtual trainings are available to assist communities in mass violence response planning, victim services, mass violence involving higher education institutions, and community behavioral health and criminal justice victim support, amongst others.

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Prevention and Preparedness Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Justice (DOJ), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
    Key Audience(s):
    K-12 Schools/Colleges/Universities, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Mental Health/Behavioral Health/Human Services, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers Basic Tactical Medical Instructor Training Program

    The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers’ (FLETC) Basic Tactical Medical Instructor Training Program (BTMITP) is a highly intense training program requiring a physical demand on the student and consists of lecture, labs and skill practice. The law enforcement officer will gain knowledge and skills necessary to mitigate the loss of their life or the life of another while in a dynamic environment. The skills will address treating life-threatening injuries in an austere environment with limited equipment, lack of medically trained personnel and prolonged time to evacuation. 

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Active Shooter Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement
    Last Updated:

  • Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers Active Shooter Threat Training Program

    The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers’ (FLETC) Active Shooter Threat Training Program (ASTTP) is a dynamic, hands-on training program designed to equip law enforcement officers and agents with the knowledge and skills required to successfully end an active threat event.  The ASTTP will prepare students to employ Active Shooter Threat Tactics through dynamic, interactive drills and scenario-based training.  This intensive and challenging program covers a variety of tactical subjects for responding officers including: Single Officer Response Tactics, Limited Penetration Tactics, Tactical Medical Training, Multiple Officer Response and Link-Up Procedures, Response to an Explosive Hazard, and Post Shooting Considerations.  Candidates will be evaluated on their ability to perform skills and tactics in the role of a responding officer during a practical exercise. 

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Active Shooter Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement
    Last Updated:

  • Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers Active Shooter Threat Instructor Training Program

    The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers’ (FLETC) Active Shooter Threat Instructor Training Program (ASTITP) is designed to provide a field training agent or officer with high quality training and analytical knowledge, skills and aptitudes needed for the highest proficiency in this specialized field. The program takes active shooter threat tactics training to the next level by emphasizing leadership, teach backs, and adult learning as well as the traditional technical skills needed by field training officers and special agents. This program is an intensive training program that covers a variety of tactical subject matters to include individual and multiple officer response. This program is not designed to train specialty or SWAT team movement or tactics. In addition, this program focuses on the role of the field trainer and emphasizes evaluation skills and documentation requirements. 

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Active Shooter Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement
    Last Updated:

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has an Active Shooter Coordinator in each Field Office and several Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Instructors who serve as the key points of contact at the local level for all aspects of the FBI’s active shooter program. Through an award to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) supports a catalog of multi-disciplinary, scenario-based trainings in active shooter/mass violence event response. Courses include both direct and train-the-trainer options available to first responders nationally. 

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Active Shooter Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement
    Last Updated:

  • Federal Emergency Management Agency First Responder Training System

    Over 200 free courses are available to help first responders and emergency management personnel build critical skills, including specific training for the prevention and deterrence of terrorist acts, active shooter training, advanced critical infrastructure protection, and building whole community engagement. Courses are available in multiple delivery options to include mobile, residential, and web based.  

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Active Shooter Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Disaster Behavioral Health Training

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Disaster Technical Assistance Center (DTAC) helps state, local, tribal, and territory entities deliver effective mental health and substance use (behavioral health) support following disasters. DTAC conducts training and consultation around disaster behavioral health preparedness and provides various guides for first responders and other audiences on how to manage stress following mass violence and disasters.

    Categories:
    Training Opportunities, Prevention and Preparedness Training
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
    Key Audience(s):
    Health Care, Mental Health/Behavioral Health/Human Services, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:
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