Training 1
 Training 2
 Training 3

 USAonWatch
 Community Safety Institute

Category 1 training is specifically for Campus Security and University Police Officers, and local law enforcement officers who serve colleges and universities with crime prevention and policing support.

Category 2 training is designed for Residence Hall Directors, Residence Assistants, and University staff.

Category 1: For Law enforcement personnel only

Category 1 training is for Campus Security Officers, University Police, and local law enforcement officers who serve colleges and universities. This facilitated training is provided by UCW on your campus, and includes interactive presentations and information.

Protecting Colleges and Universities: Train the Trainer (Law Enforcement only) Course 0321

This suite of courses highlights the four primary training courses that can be offered to faculty, staff and students. Courses are: Responding to Critical Incidents; Awareness and Warning Signs; Crisis Response Basics; and How to Start a University Crime Watch. Each participant receives a CD-ROM containing the four courses, downloadable Facilitator manuals and supporting materials.

Threat Assessment (Law Enforcement only): Course 0322

Threat Assessment for law enforcers presents information that details the four primary types of threats, factors to consider when analyzing a threat in order to determine the appropriate response, how to properly classify threats; and the four-pronged approach to threat investigation. Participants learn how to organize and form a Threat Assessment Team, and a threat assessment process that can be utilized when a threat is received.

Protecting College and University Events (Law Enforcement only): Course 0323

College security and university police departments can work with community partners in planning and preparing for major special events. This training addresses issues of crowd control, traffic control, staffing, facility preparation, and emergency operations.

Law Enforcement and Campus Safety (Law Enforcement only): Course 0324

Campus violence is not limited to high-profile incidents that make the news, but includes offenses such as harassment, sexual assaults and suicides. Law enforcers should work with campus safety planners to address these issues.

Category 2: Residence Hall Directors, Residence Assistants, and University staff

Category 2 offers facilitated courses for Residence Hall Directors, Residence Assistants, and University staff. These courses are designed to provide information and build skills necessary to provide a safe and secure residence hall and student life environment. Training will be conducted by UCW facilitators on your campus. Training includes interactive presentations, information and handouts.

How to Start a University Crime Watch: Course 0310

This course features all the elements needed to create, manage and maintain a University Crime Watch on campus including:

• Planning and Conducting Meetings
  • This course provides instruction relating to the planning and conducting of meetings. Topics include logistics of meetings, developing agendas, facilitating the meeting, managing disagreements, and post- meeting follow-up activities.
• Observation Skills
  • This course gives an overview on the importance of accurate observation, focusing on how to observe and what to observe, so that students can be extra “eyes and ears” for campus security.
• Reporting Suspicious Persons and Activities
  • This training helps to identify what activities should be considered suspicious, and presents information on how to report as well as what and when to report.
• Target Hardening on Campus
  • Target Hardening teaches a specific methodology on how to evaluate your campus environment for security, and what to do to make your personal environment more secure.

Responding to Critical Incidents: “The First Three Minutes” (RAIN Model): Course 0312

Utilizing adult learning techniques with participant role-playing and featuring the nationally recognized RAIN (Respond, Assess, Isolate, and Notify) model this course is a must for Residence Hall Directors and their staff. Participants will learn how to quickly assess their situation, isolate themselves from harm and notify emergency responders as they respond to critical incidents occurring on campus. This training has saved lives at educational institutions throughout the country.

Awareness and Warning Signs: Course 0311

This training focuses on awareness and warning signs of individuals who may be at risk for violence, as well as information on victimization and environmental characteristics, and how to develop referral and intervention systems.

Crisis Response Basics: Course 0313

Crisis Response Basics is a foundational campus safety course for all college and university administrators, faculty, staff and students. This course outlines standardized safety terms and their proper implementation. The course focuses on basic crisis response techniques including:

• Shelter-in-place
• Lockdown
• Evacuation
• On-site
• Off-site
• Primary
• Secondary
• Reunion Site

To schedule facilitated training at your college or university, please email us at or call us at 972-576-8662 for training availability.