Tier 2 · Develop Practical Capabilities
Practical Skills for Critical Moments
Preparation becomes capability when you understand what to do and have the opportunity to practice it. These modules focus on responding to injuries and emergencies and understanding personal safety tools that may expand your options.
Each training option stands on its own. Choose the subjects that fit your needs. There is no required order or expectation that you complete everything within either module.
Module 3 – Emergency Readiness
Develop practical skills for responding when someone is injured, experiences a medical emergency, or is affected by a larger incident.
Duration: 2 hours each; Emergency First Aid is 3-4 hours.
Choose from these standalone classes:
- Emergency First Aid Fundamentals
- Save a Life: Control the Bleed
- Save a Life: Restart the Heart
- Active Threat Response and Triage
Participation format: Training may include hands-on practice with first-aid equipment, manikins, and optional partner exercises. Activities are explained in advance and adapted to participant needs.
Module 4 – Personal Safety Tools
Learn how common personal safety tools work, what they can and cannot reasonably accomplish, and how to make informed decisions about carrying and using them.
Duration: 90 minutes each.
Choose from these standalone classes:
- Everyday Personal Safety Tools
- Pepper Spray Fundamentals
- Electronic Defensive Devices
- Defensive Launcher Fundamentals
Participation format: Training may include handling inert training devices and participating in optional practical exercises. Any live-device practice will be clearly identified in the individual course description. Participants are not sprayed, shocked, or struck by projectiles during training.
Training Designed for All People
Training is meant to be approachable, practical, and adaptable to different bodies, abilities, comfort levels, and prior experience. Skills are explained before they are practiced, questions are always welcome, and no one is expected to prove their toughness.
We are committed to meeting each participant where they are and working with them to support comfortable, meaningful participation; whatever their physical, cognitive, emotional, or accessibility needs may be.
These modules may be offered through:
- Public classes and workshops
- Private and family training
- Workplace and community group programs
- Women only private or group sessions by request
Choose a Class or Build a Program
Take an individual class, combine related subjects, or build a customized preparedness program for yourself, your family, friends, workplace, or organization.
