Active Shooter Training
Church Active Shooter Response Training
Make sure your place of worship is ready to handle active shooter situations. It is important to take steps to prepare for the potential of these situations in order to ensure your staff, volunteers and congregation feel safe at all times. An active shooter response training course helps your church, synagogue, temple, or other sacred gathering space be as prepared as possible. Find out more below.
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Train Church Leaders and Volunteers
Training your church leaders and volunteers to respond to an active shooter situation in the right way is what we do here at AVERT. Our training courses focus on giving your people the ability to respond correctly and take actions that will save lives.
In an active shooter scenario, acting fast and taking the right steps can save lives. With AVERT, everyone who receives training in your church will know exactly how to react.
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Stop the Bleed
After a severe injury, a person can bleed to death in as little as 3 minutes. When there is an active shooter in your church and people have been wounded, helping those who have been hurt with emergency bleeding techniques until first responders get to the scene is critical. Our training will give your church leaders, volunteers, and congregation the skills necessary to do that.
In particular, AVERT delivers training that focuses on how to stop the bleeding in an emergency. The correct emergency bleeding control techniques will save lives during and immediately after an active shooter scenario, so these techniques are vital to understand.
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Emergency Response Tactics
Knowing exactly how to respond in an emergency situation is not always as easy as it might sound. The right techniques and an understanding of how to escape and evade harm, while also protecting others is what we offer through our training courses.
Training with AVERT ensures everyone participating in the program have a solid and practical understanding of active shooter response procedures and how to deploy them if the need ever arises.
Live Scenario Simulations
As part of the training we offer, we implement a live shooter scenario simulation. This allows all the people participating in the training course to experience how an active shooter situation might play out in a safe and controlled way.
It is hard to know how you and those around you will respond to an active shooter situation until you are actually experiencing it and living through it. A live simulation will give you the opportunity to find out where improvements need to be made.
FAQs
Churches, synagogues, temples, and other places of worship are meant to be spaces of peace, but they are not immune to active shooter incidents. Proper training helps church leaders, volunteers, and members of the congregation respond effectively in an emergency, increasing safety and preparedness for everyone in attendance.
All church staff, security teams, volunteers, and congregation members can benefit from active shooter training. The more people equipped with response skills, the safer the entire community will be in a crisis.
This training provides:
-- Situational awareness to recognize early warning signs.
-- Best response strategies, including escape, evasion, and defensive actions.
-- Hands-on bleeding control techniques to assist the injured.
-- Live scenario simulations to practice real-time emergency response.
A person can bleed to death in as little as three minutes. In an active shooter situation, immediate action is critical. Training includes emergency bleeding control techniques, allowing church leaders and volunteers to provide life-saving assistance before first responders arrive.
Live scenario simulations allow participants to experience an active shooter situation in a controlled, safe environment. These exercises help individuals understand their reactions under pressure, identify areas for improvement, and build confidence in their emergency response skills.
Churches can request on-site training or schedule a training session by visiting the Training page.