Thinking about an active threat and violence in your school should not be a top priority, but the reality is – it needs to be.
Empower
Empower your entire organization with eLearning that takes a trauma-informed approach to active shooter response training for all students and staff. Lesson plans and resources included for each grade level.
Protect
Provide an ALICE Certified Instructor internally to conduct annual required active shooter response drills and scenarios. These individuals are held to the highest standards of ALICE Training®.
Mitigate
Reduce legal and financial risk with research-supported and proven training the exceeds recommended standards to keep your students and staff safe, prepared, and confident to respond in the face of violence.
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Why Multi-Option Response Training is Vital to Building Confidence & Increasing Survivability
Taking a proactive options-based approach to responding to an active shooter incident in your school will save the lives of your students, your staff, and your community.
Why ALICE Training®:
How ALICE Training® Works
The program is broken down into easily digestible and understandable topics to ensure the strategies are comprehended by all age levels
Communication Strategies: Alert (A) and Inform (I)
- Alert – Your first notification of danger and acceptance of what is communicated by sound or others
- Inform – Communicate real-time information using clear and direct language in any way possible
Proactive Response Options: Evacuate (E), Lockdown (L), Counter (C)
- Evacuate – When safe to do so, run from danger using non-traditional exits if necessary
- Lockdown – If evacuation is not possible, barricade all entry points and prepare to Evacuate or Counter
- Counter – If in close proximity of danger, create noise, movement, distance, and distraction to reduce the shooter’s ability to shoot accurately
How ALICE Training® Is Delivered
ALICE is delivered following the DOE-recommended blended approach that includes starting online and continuing through hands-on training
Certificated eLearning
Society is forcing schools to adjust to safety and security issues with modern safety solutions. The “it won’t happen here” mentality is no longer an option for any organization. Preparing and protecting the individuals in your care is not only your responsibility by law, it is the right thing to do for your community.
The ALICE eLearning course is interactive and on-demand to fit into any educator’s busy calendar and provides a certificate upon successful completion to ensure comprehension. The course provides foundational information on the communication strategies: Alert and Inform, and the response options: enhanced Lockdown, Counter, and Evacuate. Each course includes vital resources and lesson plans for all staff, with additional pieces for students with special needs on every grade level.
Courses are provided specifically to speak to:
- ALICE for Educators
- ALICE for Administrators
- ALICE for Support Staff
- ALICE for Bus Drivers
- ALICE for Cafeteria Staff
- ALICE for Coaches
ALICE eLearning is not the only course you will get. The Navigate360 Training Institute is an evolving ecosystem of courses to ensure your school is prepared and protected beyond the four walls of your school.
Hands-on Practice
Hands-on training delivered by an ALICE Certified Instructor (ACI) is imperative for fluid recall of the ALICE strategies in an emergency. Whether you choose to have an internal ACI in your building or leverage your local law enforcement (LE) to provide the hands-on portion, allowing your entire school to participate in the interactive portion will increase fluid recall when they need it most. Just like all other emergency response protocols you practice with your students and staff – active shooter response protocols should be practiced to ensure your students know their options no matter where they are in the school.
57% of active shooter events are over before LE arrives. They need your students and staff to be prepared to be proactive in their own survival until they arrive to help.
“The results of this study contribute to the limited body of research indicating that teaching students the ALICE multi-option active assailant response through a discussion-based, classroom exercise can increase feelings of safety, confidence, and preparedness, without increasing feelings of fear, confusion, and worry for a substantial number of students.”
Cheryl Lero Jonson, Melissa M. Moon & Brooke Miller Gialopsos
(2020): AreStudents Scared or Prepared? Psychological Impacts of a Multi-Option Active Assailant Protocol Compared to Other Crisis/Emergency Preparedness Practices, Victims & Offenders
Empowered individuals are prepared no matter where they face violence. The ALICE Training® program can be implemented by anyone, anywhere they become unwilling participants in a violent critical incident. Our students should not be worried about being targeted in a classroom or mall or anywhere – but they are. Let us help you increase survivability and build confidence and resilience in your student’s and staff’s ability to respond and survive in the face of violence.
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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.
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You start with denial; this can’t really be happening. But you can’t stand there in denial.
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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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