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ASIM Basic Train-the-Trainer is a 1-day, 8-hour course that builds your internal ASIM instructor team so you can deliver active shooter incident management training on your schedule across law enforce...

We are picking up from last week's topic about ASIM Basic to talk about the Counterstrike training system. Bill and Adam give some tips and tricks that will enhance your training as you run scenarios.

We are splitting this week's topic in two parts. First, we are discussing some tips and suggestions for instructors teaching ASIM Basic classes. Next week we will continue with the Counterstrike Syste...

Reviews from ASIM Basic course participants.

Learn how to become an ASIM Authorized Training Partner (ATP). Licensed ATPs deliver ASIM Basic and SSAVEIM courses in their region with full NCIER support, branding, and curriculum.

The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is licensed by NCIER to deliver ASIM Basic and SSAVEIM courses to Virginia law enforcement and public safety agencies.

Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI) at the University of Illinois is licensed by NCIER to deliver ASIM Advanced, ASIM Basic, and SSAVEIM courses under formal agreement.

Compare ASIM active shooter courses — QuickStart, Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. Find the right training level for your agency.

Side-by-side comparison of ASIM active shooter courses. Find the right training level — QuickStart, Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced.

Read course evaluations from emergency responders who completed ASIM training. See what first responders say about our active shooter courses.

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ASIM QuickStart is a free on-demand 1-hour course delivering essential active shooter response tactics. Built on the ASIM Checklist (NTOA endorsed, NIMS compliant).

ASIM Advanced is a 3-day, 24-hour simulation-based course for up to 60 responders. Run 10 complete active shooter and complex coordinated attack incidents using the NTOA-endorsed ASIM Checklist.

ASIM QuickStart Classroom Edition — free instructor-led 1-hour course for classrooms. Essential active shooter tactics built on the ASIM Checklist.

ASIM Advanced (PER-353) was developed and is owned by NCIER. Through a small group of National Training Providers, agencies can access this course under DHS/FEMA and related programs.

ASIM Authorized Training Partners (ATPs) are organizations licensed by NCIER to deliver ASIM-branded training in their region. Find an ATP near you or learn how to become one.

Answers to common questions about ASIM training, costs, funding, the ASIM Checklist, and how NCIER differs from other active shooter programs.

ASIM Advanced (PER-353) is developed and owned by NCIER. TEEX NERRTC is a National Training Provider that delivers this course under the DHS/FEMA Homeland Security National Training Program.

ASIM Advanced (PER-353) is developed and owned by NCIER. ALERRT at Texas State University is a National Training Provider that delivers this course as part of its active shooter response training prog...

ASIM Advanced (PER-353) is developed and owned by NCIER. DHS/FEMA lists and funds this course through the National Training and Education Division for eligible agencies nationwide.

The Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist is designed for basic through moderate complexity active shooter events. NTOA endorsed, NIMS compliant.

Every street cop, firefighter, EMT, and paramedic needs to know basic tactics for operating in a tactical environment.

Sheriff Michelle Cook shares her experience hosting the Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Intermediate course remotely for Clay County (FL) on the NCIER Campus virtual platform

A discussion about uses of the ASIM Checklist beyond active shooter events.

This video is a step‑by‑step explainer of the Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Checklist using real‑style radio traffic from a fictional school shooting scenario. As the incident unfolds over...

This video walks through the major updates in Version 3.0 of the Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) Checklist and explains why they were made. Instructors Bill Godfrey and Joe Ferrara use a sho...

Reviews from ASIM Advanced course participants.

Reviews from ASIM QuickStart course participants.

...where you can stand up and use some of these things? Kami Maertz: For the ASIM terms specifically is, because obviously incident management's every day, no matter if we think we're using it or...

...negotiators to come in and give that 8-hour course so that they've got some basics on how to deal with that type situation in a very critical incident in time. Bill Godfrey: Yeah. And not only...

...Oh, in every room it's SIM, keeping it back... Simple, keeping it back to basics, "Security, Immediate Action Plan, and Medical," we set up security, if something happens, who's going? And...

...It should be exercised and fire and EMS should be familiar with some of the basics of operating in a tactical environment. But doesn't it seem like we spend a whole lot more time doing tactics...

...Point or whatever. Those contact teams were all trained in, you know, basic first aid, were carrying tourniquets, or stop the bleed kits in a lot of, you know, places, now schools,...

...in five, six different ways. But doesn't that start with having to learn the basic recipe in the first place? Pete Kelting: Absolutely. But it goes back to that immediate action plan and are we...

...it. Billy Perry: Yeah. Bill Godfrey: Alright, so let's go through the very basics of the job of the Rescue Task Force. And let's start with the first one through the door. And along the way...

...be the best at that specific task that I'm trying to do, rather than trying to basically do 50% and 50%. So staying in your lane is critically important. But the ICS system for us, we think we do...

...last podcast, but we didn't go very deep on it. And this question had to do, basically it was, can you talk more, expand upon how a hospital, with their hospital incident command system, whether...

...to a whole lot of equipment that you would normally not have, right?. You're basically limited normally with what you carry into the building. Now, potentially you have access to IV setups and...