ALICE Training – the original civilian active shooter response training delivered with a trauma-informed approach in an age- and ability- appropriate way.
Twenty years of lessons learned put to work for you, your organization, and your community to increase the survivability of active threat incidents. ALICE Training prepares your organization with delivery models to fit your culture, expectations, and environment.
Why ALICE Training:
Trained in ALICE strategies
We can help you understand the options, ensuring you keep the individuals in your organization safe with a trauma-informed approach to safety training that works for you.
ALICE Blended Learning
ALICE Training delivered online and onsite with blended training ensures every individual in your organization is prepared to respond to violence with confidence and resilience. Prepare your team with eLearning specific to their role and robust resources to practice in your facility, solidifying their knowledge to respond. The certificated online course makes it easy and lays the foundation for hands-on training.
ALICE eLearning
ALICE on-demand eLearning curriculum lays a foundation for the ALICE training with a trauma-informed approach in age-and-ability ways. Accessible to everyone in your organization and the most impressive step forward to keeping the individuals in your care prepared and safe with role-specific modules and robust resources.
Public ALICE Certified Instructor Class
Bring ALICE to your community with a public ALICE Certified Instructor 2-day class helping to create a more prepared and safe community while showcasing your commitment to safety. For the leaders who see the need for everyone to be prepared the public class ensures other organizations benefit from the ALICE Training to help save more lives.
Private Class
ALICE contract classes are delivered onsite by an ALICE National Trainer, tailored to your organization’s facility and environment while building confidence in the commitment to their safety. Whether you need a team of ALICE Certified Instructors to get your organization up to speed quickly or just want to control the attendee list a private onsite may be for you.
Learn what’s right for you.
- eLearning – Training for the entire organization
- Hosting – Host a class – Private or Public
- Certification – Become an ALICE Certified Instructor
Prepare your entire organization with eLearning
Protecting your organization and individuals in your care against harm is critical in today’s environment. ALICE Training eLearning provides organizations with an efficient and proven certificated on-demand curriculum that empowers individuals to participate in their own survival using proactive options-based strategies in the face of violence.
ALICE eLearning curriculum lays a foundation for the ALICE program and is designed for leaders who prioritize safety and understand that everyone has the right to be proactive in their own survival when they become unwilling participants in acts of violence. The ALICE eLearning ensures the individuals learn life skills that can be used by anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
Hosting a class is easy, and we have a team that works with you every step of the way. As a host, you provide a 2-day intensive training available to law enforcement and first responders, and other leaders in your community that share your commitment to preparedness training to save more lives.
ALICE Instructor Certification class is an immersive train the trainer program delivered in your community by one of our ALICE National Trainers. The class participants gain in-depth knowledge and practical training to return to their organization or community and empower others. We help by providing you with everything you need as a host.
It is as easy as 1-2-3 to host:
- Pick a location
- Choose a date
- Promote your class
Private or Public classes available: ALICE contract classes allow organizations to bring an ALICE National Trainer onsite to tailor the ALICE experience to your environment, organization, and building.
Become an ALICE Certified Instructor
Violence can happen anywhere in the community and not all civilians are equipped to respond. ALICE Certified Instructors are trained to enable and empower individuals in organizations and communities to survive violence. Immersed in 2 full days of intensive training to allow them to be called ALICE subject matter experts and prepare others in their community or organization.
Built for individuals who want to do the right thing and take on the responsibility to mitigate risk and prepare individuals to respond to and survive acts of violence.
Why:
- Develop in-house active shooter response experts to ensure your team is trained within the realities of your organization
- Ongoing training to support leadership and community expectations
- Save more lives by preparing individuals to survive violence using proactive response options
Bring a National Trainer to You
Violence can happen anywhere in the community, and people don’t feel safe. ALICE contract classes provide organizations with the ability to bring an ALICE National Trainer onsite to tailor the ALICE experience to your environment and facility.
The blended approach to learning a National Traininer onsite is an efficient and effective way for organizations to create confidence in their commitment to safety and prepare individuals in their care to survive violence. Go beyond awareness to showcase your culture of safety.
- Active shooter response training tailored to your organization to fit your environment and facility
- Preparedness training delivered with a trauma-informed approach to ensure retention and engagement
- Provide your organization with the training they need to stay safe at work and beyond
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ALICE Training is important because it allows you to be better prepared in a situation of a violent critical incident or active shooter situation.
You get almost this ripple effect when ALICE comes to your organization. You get team members that go through the training, and are talking about it then, after the fact, with their families…Ultimately, it’s good information to know, good information to share.
Everybody should go through this training – young or old.
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They start realizing this is not a workplace skill. These are life skills.
Hear How Valuable Training Saved a Life in the Face of Violence
You start with denial; this can’t really be happening. But you can’t stand there in denial.
Hear How ALICE Training Empowers Individuals with Proactive Response Options
If there is any organization that is on the fence…I can’t imagine if they had children in a school not having this training and explaining to them what the outcome could be if they do nothing.
ALICE Training FAQs
ALICE Training® has transitioned from a pure Instructor-led model of training that could take years to fully implement organization-wide, to a Blended Model of e-learning and Instructor-Led training which can be done in a matter of weeks. The user-level people will be trained with the classroom/theory portion being conducted via ALICE Training’s web training portal, and then that training is furthered by an ALICE Trained Instructor conducting hands-on demonstrations, drills and scenarios. In just a matter of weeks, the organization can become an ALICE Certified Organization. And as such, we are communicating that nothing is as important as our organization’s safety and security.
While no one can guarantee a lawsuit will not follow any critical incident, the strong defense of following the “best practices” and “standard-of-care” that is called for by our federal and state guidelines is what a reasonable court/jury would expect. It certainly puts us in a better position of defense than if we were NOT aligning with those recommendations.
Yes, ALICE Trained Institutions have had several situations where some part(s) of ALICE Training® protocols were incorporated and the outcome was deemed by those in the event as positive due to their ALICE Training.
ALICE Training® was the pioneer in active shooter preparation training in our country. They were the first program to question the reasonableness of “lockdown-only” policies and training. Because they were first, they have the most experience, the credibility and the most support for implementation of our program.
While the decision to allow an “opt-out” is up to the organization/company, it is always good to have everyone do the training so they know what to expect. If they choose not to participate when the times comes, once again that is a personal decision.
Although Armed Security perhaps would get help on scene quicker, there are no guarantees that they would be exactly where they could make a difference. With shots going off every four to fifteen seconds historically in Active Shooter events, occupants must know what to do to help them until law enforcement arrives.
Yes, but knowing what to expect and then dealing with the ALICE Training® strategies are much different. Because each area will be making different choices, the shooter cannot predict what those under attack will do.
Law Enforcement is on their way but time is not on their side. We must learn to help ourselves before they arrive. Just as the fire department equips us with fire extinguishers and sprinkler systems, and EMS trains us in using AED for heart attacks, the law enforcement community is training us in our response options to be used before they able to arrive.
While there are no guarantees that, even with ALICE Training®, no one will be injured or killed. The program was designed by law enforcement officers who used the same techniques that helped them survive life-and-death situations. The techniques were designed to be easily conducted but also effective in mitigating casualties.
No. Confronting a violent intruder should never be required in any non law enforcement job description. How each staff member chooses to respond if directly confronted by a violent intruder is up to them.
Law enforcement officers may not be present when a shooting begins. The first law enforcement officers on the scene may arrive after the shooting has ended. Making sure individuals know how to respond helps prevent and reduce the loss of life.
The more a plan is practiced and stakeholders are trained on the plan, the more effectively they will be able to act during an emergency to lessen the impact on life. Exercises provide opportunities to practice with community partners (local emergency responders) as well as to identify gaps and weaknesses in the plan.
No, ALICE Training® is not designed to be sequential nor is it meant to be a checklist. ALICE Training is a list of options that can be used to stay safe in the event of a violent intruder. Some may choose to Evacuate and some may choose to Lockdown and barricade. Others may choose to Counter if an armed intruder is able to enter the space they are in. ALICE Training® is about options. Not every situation is the same. Alert and Inform are critical communication pieces that will aid those who have to make life saving decisions.
ALICE Training® has helped more than 18 million individuals, across multiple organizations and industries, prepare to respond with confidence in the face of violence.
Our training numbers, to date:
- +18,908,600 Individuals
- +5,500 K-12 School districts
- +5,100 Police/LE departments
- +3,000 Businesses
- +1,400 Healthcare Facilities organizations
- +800 Different Government Agencies
- +700 Houses of Worship
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