Active Shooter Training

This app requires a Center for Applied Learning account. Only institutional accounts are available. To set-up an account for your organization, email cal@apus.edu.

As an employer, you are responsible for understanding the level of risk for violent incidents at your organization. Empower your workforce to avoid the devastating emotional, physical, and financial consequence of an active shooter incident with the Active Shooter ACTION™ Training Course.

This training was developed by the Center for Applied Learning at American Public University System, in partnership with FBI National Academy graduate John Sakoian through his Command Excellence™ Training Program.

Active Shooter ACTION™ Training Course is a 2-hour, online, self-paced, interactive course. Each learner who successfully completes the program will be issued a certificate of completion.

Contact us today for a demonstration and to assess how prepared your company is to handle an active shooter scenario. Email cal@apus.edu.

The knowledge and skills gained from this training program can empower your organization with an actionable strategy to help deter threats. It will help create conditioned responses of what to do in the first seconds to help save lives should an incident occur.

Learning Objectives
• Recognize common active shooter behaviors
• Examine common motives that trigger active shooters to commit violent acts
• Identify the active shooter threat indicators
• Assess an active shooter situation
• Respond to an active shooter situation in the most reasonable way to protect your own life
• Learn important information to share with local authorities during and/or after an active shooter occurrence
• Create an ACTION™ plan for you and your workforce

Training Features

• Simulations and interactions to provide a realistic and engaging experience with a clearer awareness of what you might expect in an actual active shooter situation. This feature allows you to “test” various decisions and reactions one might make, and experience their resulting outcomes – good and bad.
• Embedded knowledge checks to test your knowledge and point you to areas for review.
This app requires a Center for Applied Learning account. Only institutional accounts are available. To set-up an account for your organization, email cal@apus.edu.