Active Assailant – Prevention and Response

This course is specifically designed for people who want to understand how to better protect themselves from the intense acts of violence. Our M.O.V.E.™ program is an “options based” protocol that provides a powerfully simple strategy that can help you survive all types of violence by giving you the knowledge and confidence to respond in violent situations. We do not use fear as a training tactic. Instead, we leverage the strong desire we all have to make it back home to the ones we love and care about.

Our programs are evidence-informed and experienced applied. In other words, we incorporate current studies and research balanced with decades of field experience and “lessons learned” from real incidents. 

Learn to identify the pre-incident indicators of an “Active Assailant” and review strategies for responding should a violent incident occur. 

• Personal Safety:
• Building a “Survivors Mindset”
• Managing fear and anxiety
• Developing a plan before an incident occurs 
• Strategies for preventing an Active Assailant:
• Recognizing the pre-incident indicators 
• Reviewing the dynamics of targeted violence 
• Understanding myths and realities 
• Surviving an “Active Assailant”
• M.O.V.E – Options based response protocol 
• Practical exercises 
• Tips for creating time and distance 
• Using common building items for a shelter
• What to expect from law enforcement

Active Shooter (Active Assailant) incidents are dynamic and most often happen with limited warning. Taking this course will help you identify pre-incident indicators and review strategies you can use should a violent incident occur.

This course is great for all levels and job titles.

Hector Alvarez is a security expert who specializes in workplace violence prevention. He is a Certified Threat Manager™ by the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and holds a BS in Criminal Justice. He has built over 25 years of threat management, security, domestic terrorism, and crisis management experience serving as a Security Director, protecting one of our nation's most sensitive critical infrastructures; to work as a city police officer; and as a professional security consultant.

He has personally assessed and/or responded to thousands of potentially violent situations, developed numerous violence prevention programs, and trained tens of thousands of employees and managers in the areas of crisis intervention, active shooter response, violence prevention, domestic terrorism, and emergency management. He has been featured on ABC10, KCRA3, CBS13, FOX40, Univision, KFBK, Sacramento Bee, Folsom Telegraph, Sacramento Business Journal, and Society for Human Resources (SHRM). Clients include a broad range of industries from the public and private sector.