Press Releases Posts

Support for School Safety ALICE Training has reached out to support the Chambers County School district in Alabama by offering to provide violent intruder response training at no charge. This is the school district who has garnered national media attention when they sent a letter to parents regarding arming students with a canned food item [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (September 9, 2014 - Medina, OH)   ALICE training teaches schools, businesses, police departments, and individuals how to prepare for and respond using advantages they have during violent intruder attacks.   Active shooter events are over 49% of the time before police arrive[1]. Sheltering in place and waiting for the police to [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (July 22, 2014 – Medina, Ohio). Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, released the recommendations of his Massachusetts Task Force on School Safety and Security.  The recommendations specifically include ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate) as appropriate training for school safety. The complete report can be downloaded at www.mass.gov/edu. The task [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (July 22, 2014 – Medina, Ohio). Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, released the recommendations of his Massachusetts Task Force on School Safety and Security.  The recommendations specifically include ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate) as appropriate training for school safety. The complete report can be downloaded at www.mass.gov/edu. The task [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (June 12, 2014 - Medina, Ohio) Helping Businesses and Schools Prepare for Violent Intruders Former law enforcement officials create specialized training to help keep businesses, schools and non-profits safe. Violence in the workplace is the second leading cause of on-the-job fatalities in this country and costs the American workforce $36 billion per [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (June 10, 2014 – Medina, Ohio). Active shooter training to improve situational response with smartphone communication system.  ELERTS Corporation, a leading provider of mobile communication for emergency response, and the ALICE Training, the foremost active shooter response program, have entered into an exclusive agreement to improve response options during emergency events. ELERTS [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (June 10, 2014 – Medina, Ohio). Active shooter training to improve situational response with smartphone communication system.  ELERTS Corporation, a leading provider of mobile communication for emergency response, and the ALICE Training, the foremost active shooter response program, have entered into an exclusive agreement to improve response options during emergency events. ELERTS [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (May 19, 2014 – Medina, Ohio). ALICE Training announces the release of, “I’m Not Scared… I’m Prepared,” by national award winning author, Julia Cook, a parenting expert with almost 60 children’s books to her credit. Author Julia Cook collaborated with ALICE founders Greg and Lisa Crane to create an age-appropriate, instructional storybook [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (May 19, 2014 – Medina, Ohio). ALICE Training announces the release of, “I’m Not Scared… I’m Prepared,” by national award winning author, Julia Cook, a parenting expert with almost 60 children’s books to her credit. Author Julia Cook collaborated with ALICE founders Greg and Lisa Crane to create an age-appropriate, instructional storybook [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (December 2, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). Greg Crane, founder of the ALICE training program stated, “Having a series of children’s books on how to respond and recover from acts of violence and disasters will aid in the age-appropriate ALICE training typically conducted by local law enforcement and school officials. We’re [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (December 2, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). Ken Trump, a long time critic of ALICE’s success appears to acknowledge what the Ohio Attorney General and the US Department of Education have already concluded – having multiple response options, such as ALICE, during violent intruder events can help save lives in K-12 [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (August 1, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). Greg Crane, founder of the ALICE training program, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police fall conference on September 5th 2013.  Crane stated, “I am honored to be presenting alongside such a distinguished group of speakers including the [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (August 1, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). Greg Crane, founder of the ALICE training program, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police fall conference on September 5th 2013.  Crane stated, “I am honored to be presenting alongside such a distinguished group of speakers including the [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (June 20, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). Vice President Joe Biden released new guidelines for school safety on Tuesday (June 18), six months after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 26 dead, including 20 children.  Beyond seeking shelter and waiting for police to arrive, as many Newtown victims did, [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (June 20, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). Vice President Joe Biden released new guidelines for school safety on Tuesday (June 18), six months after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left 26 dead, including 20 children.  Beyond seeking shelter and waiting for police to arrive, as many Newtown victims did, [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (June 11, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). Ohio Attorney General, Mike DeWine, today released the recommendations of his Ohio School Safety Task Force.  The recommendations includedall of the training protocols found in the ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, and Evacuate) training program. ALICE is already endorsed by law enforcement across the country [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (May 28, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). State Rep. Debbie Phillips announced the introduction of a new School Safety Drills bill to the Ohio House of Representatives during a press conference this week. “As our nation continues to heal from the latest horrific gun violence that claimed the lives of children [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (May 21, 2013 – Medina, Ohio). As part of a business expansion, Response Options will now be known as the “ALICE Training”. With this change, the company seeks to further leverage the good-will and national success of its ALICE training program and the ALICE name recognition. Greg Crane, president and [...]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION (May 1, 2013 – Medina, Ohio) The Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) president, Chief Kenneth Hinkle, presented this year’s President’s Award to Greg Crane, president of the ALICE Training.  The award was announced at this year’s Chiefs' In-Service & Annual Conference held April  28-30, 2013. OACP president, Chief [...]