AVERT

Empower Your Team with Training to be Competent and Save Lives

With AVERT – Active Violence Emergency Response Training - you will learn how to recognize the signs of danger, respond appropriately, and make rapid survival decisions. AVERT goes beyond active shooter response training by also teaching how to control life-threatening bleeding, increasing your staff and student’s chances of surviving an active shooter event.

School Active Shooter Response Training
Being prepared for the worst-case scenarios that could one day strike your school is vital. Sadly, the risk of facing an active shooter is real, and being prepared and knowing how to handle the situation correctly is a matter of life and death. With the help of our school active shooter response training courses, you can ensure your staff is properly prepared and ready to act. Our AVERT training courses teach your faculty and staff members how to react to life-threatening school shooter scenarios safely and effectively.

Train Your Faculty
The training we deliver will help attendees enhance their situational awareness and see early warning signs. If an incident occurs, they will be able to quickly decide whether to escape, evade, or attack. AVERT trains attendees how to respond in the best way possible given the situation, and provides training on how to employ emergency response techniques.

Stop the Bleed
During an active shooter scenario, treating those who have been shot is one of the most important challenges to increasing survivability. Research shows how vital it is to stop the bleeding in an emergency to prolong life until Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrive. AVERT will empower your staff to know how to apply bleeding control measures that can make a difference in a person’s chance of survival.

Live Scenario Simulations
To help your team understand how an active shooter scenario might play out, and give them a chance to practice what they have learned, we simulate a live active shooter scenario. This will occur in a safe but realistic manner to ensure your team is properly prepared to apply AVERT during an active shooter event.

Dealing with a situation such as this and knowing how to respond correctly is never easy. Through our unique and live scenario simulations, we are able to offer a clear and realistic experience to your faculty and staff members. A live simulation provides your staff the opportunity to apply the benefits of learning AVERT to respond to an active violence emergency, and identify where improvements can be made.

AVERT equips you with the tools to respond in an active violence emergency
When violence occurs, seconds count, and you can't always wait for EMS to arrive. AVERT enables you to become an immediate responder by giving you the tools to prepare for violence and respond quickly in life-threatening situations. After an AVERT training session, you and your team will be able to:

• Recognize warning signs using situational awareness

  • Identify the importance of acknowledging the possibility of active violence

  • Understand how to identify the signs and behaviors that can forecast danger or potential active violence

  • Identify the capabilities of weapons commonly used in active violence events

• Identify the role of an immediate responder when life-threatening bleeding occurs and apply critical bleeding control techniques

  • Understand how to identify the signs of life-threatening bleeding

  • Identify how to apply direct pressure bleeding techniques

  • Identify how to pack a wound and apply a tourniquet

• Equipping your Space

  • Identify the minimum of what a bleeding control kit should contain

  • Identify best practice placement of bleeding control kits

• Understand whether to Escape, Evade, or Attack

  • Identify the types of reactions a person may have when facing an active violence event (fight, flight, freeze)

  • Identify strategies to escape or evade an assailant

  • Identify how to distract and disarm an assailant

• Respond quickly and confidently in an emergency

  • Understand how to apply AVERT during a controlled live scenario active shooter scenario

  • Identify how to interact safely with Law Enforcement

• Develop an Emergency Action Plan (EAP)

  • Understand and identify procedures for response to emergency events