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Free online course aligns school staff and first responders for an active shooter attack.
Lockdown is one step, not a plan. SSAVEIM Foundations explains how an active shooter or violent attack at a school unfolds, and how the response works: lockdown, response, and reunification. Built for everyone who works in a school and every agency who would respond, taken on their own time, before they ever need it, with no substitutes, no backfill, and no overtime.
Follows the Standard Response Protocol and Standard Reunification Method from the “I Love U Guys” Foundation.
How to earn your certificate
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Sign up. Create a free account with your work email, then take the short Pre-Test. It is diagnostic, so your score does not affect passing.
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Learn. Each module has a video and a Post-Test.
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Get your certificate. Finish all 13 modules and score an 80% average or better across their Post-Tests, and your certificate is emailed to you automatically.
Post-TestReadiness Pathway
Where This Fits
Knowing what happens is not the same as having done it. Foundations carries the SSAVEIM lecture to everyone in under an hour, so everyone starts from the same place. SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer is where your people actually practice it together, and because everyone completes Foundations beforehand, day one is the class itself, scenarios included, and day two is teaching it.
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SSAVEIM Foundations
Shared Understanding · Free · Under 1 Hour
Next Steps
SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer™
Two days, 16 hours, up to 30 trainer candidates: ideally 10 law enforcement, 10 fire and EMS, and 10 school staff. Because Foundations already covers the lecture, day one runs the class and its scenarios with your trainers as students, and day two has them teach it. Those exercises run on Counterstrike Terrain digital map tables, built from the real aerial imagery and floor plans of the buildings you actually cover, so the site everyone worries about is the site you train on. Your own people leave certified to keep teaching it. Tell us about your school district or agency and we will walk you through how it fits your schools and your responders.
- Free SSAVEIM Foundations completed beforehand, so day one starts with the class, not the lecture
- Practice lockdown and violent-event reunification together, not just learn about them
- Get school and responder teams onto one shared plan while there is still time to fix it
- Certify your own trainers so your district keeps the program running after we leave
- NCIER brings Counterstrike Terrain™ digital map tables for the exercises; buy your own only if you want one for local training
SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer™ Brochure
Who attends, what happens on each day, and what your trainers keep afterward.
View / DownloadFull course details, partnership, and FAQs on the SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer™ page
You’re all set for your brief call about SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer.
Here’s what happens over the next 1 business day.
- An NCIER team member will call you.
- On that call, we’ll talk through how SSAVEIM Train-the-Trainer could fit your schools, responder partners, and reunification planning needs.
Keep an eye out for a call from (407) 490-1300. If you don’t hear from us within 1 business day, call us at (407) 490-1300.
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What you get out of it
One course for school staff and responders.
A violent attack at a school is not a school problem or a police problem. It is one problem, worked by school staff, law enforcement, fire and EMS, 911 dispatch, public information, and emergency management. Foundations is free and open to all of them. Here is what it gives you.
If you work in a school
- See how public safety will actually respond, long before the day you watch it happen.
- Know why a locked door is the most powerful thing you own, and how fast it has to happen.
- Understand the hours of waiting after the shooting stops, and why they are normal.
- Learn that you are not in command alone, and why a school leader still belongs at the table.
- See what violent-event reunification really takes, which is more than almost any district expects.
Teachers, office and front desk staff, principals and administrators, safety directors, training officers, bus drivers, support staff, school resource officers, district leadership, and board members.
If you would respond to one
- See the whole timeline, not just the first thirty minutes you train hardest for.
- Find out what violent-event reunification actually involves. Most responders have never seen one.
- Know why the school administrator, with the keys, maps, and cameras, belongs at your command post.
- Understand that your authority is real and not exclusive, and how Unified Command holds it together.
- Work next to school staff who already know what you are doing and why.
Law enforcement, fire and EMS, 911 dispatchers, public information officers, emergency managers, and the mutual aid partners who would respond.
Emergency managers belong in this too. Not just the district emergency manager, but the community emergency manager as well. They are the ones who will be asked for support on the day, and the ones who can tell your schools and responders what they can provide.
Questions
Common questions
Is SSAVEIM Foundations really free?
Yes. There is no cost to your school or your agency. The whole course is free, and so is district tracking.
Who should take SSAVEIM Foundations?
Everyone who would be there on the day. On the school side that is teachers, office and front desk staff, principals and administrators, safety directors, training officers, bus drivers, support staff, school resource officers, and district leadership. On the response side it is law enforcement, fire and EMS, 911 dispatchers, public information officers, and emergency managers. It is free and open to all of them.
How long does SSAVEIM Foundations take?
Under an hour in total. It is 13 short video modules you take on demand, so staff can finish it between classes and responders can finish it between calls. You can stop after any module and pick up where you left off — no substitute teacher, no overtime, no training day.
Does this replace our Standard Response Protocol?
No. SSAVEIM Foundations follows SRP and SRM from the “I Love U Guys” Foundation and works alongside the protocols your schools already use. It adds the shared picture of how the full response unfolds around those protocols, from lockdown through reunification.
Do I have to sign up to start?
Not to watch. All 13 modules play without an account. You will need a free account for the Pre-Test, the Post-Tests, and your certificate, and signing in is what lets your district see your completion and send reminders.
What does SSAVEIM Foundations cover?
It gives a clear, honest understanding of how an active shooter or violent attack at a school unfolds, and how the response works. That includes lockdown, the public safety response, and violent-event reunification.
What does SSAVEIM Foundations not do?
It does not train you to manage a violent attack on a school by hand, and it does not build trainers. The in-person SSAVEIM course does both. Foundations gets everyone to the same clear starting point first.
Can a district see who finished?
Yes. A training officer can see who has finished and who has not, for free. Registration tracks completion and sends reminders, so chasing it down is not a manual job. That is how awareness becomes real across a whole district, not just a few people. To enroll your schools or agencies as a group and get tracking set up, email info@c3pathways.com.
How is this different from the in-person SSAVEIM course?
Foundations is free awareness that gets everyone to the same understanding. The in-person SSAVEIM course is where school staff and responders practice lockdown and reunification together in the same room, on one shared plan.
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