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Mass Shooting Prevention: An Evidence-Based Framework
Full-Day National Certification Program

This full-day certification training uses the results of our mass violence database study to provide data-driven tools and strategies to prevent mass violence from occurring in schools, churches, workplaces, and public spaces.

Trainers:
Jillian Peterson, Ph.D. and James Densley, Ph.D.

The road to violence is long. We are building more offramps…

The Off-Ramp Project launches in May

Join us for a 2-hour online training
and launch event

Friday, May 14, 2021: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Central Time
Preventing Targeted Violence:
Data-Driven Strategies in a Post COVID World

Register Here!

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This event will cover – 

What we know about targeted violence

Data on school and workplace shooters

The impact of COVID-19 on targeted violence

Off-Ramps from Violence - Resources, Training, Policy

Building a Crisis Response Team

Social Media Safety

Who should attend?

K-12 school administrators

K-12 teachers and support staff

Human Resource specialists

Security and School Resource Officers

Legislators and policy makers

2 Hours of Continuing Education Credit
All proceeds from this event support
The Violence Project Research Center (501c3)

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, no in-person trainings are currently scheduled

Online Training Modules are in Development

Location & Accommodation Expand
Who should attend: Expand
  • K-12 Schools (teachers, administrators, counselors, social workers, paraprofessionals)
  • Colleges and Universities (administrators, professors, staff)
  • Places of Worship (pastors, staff, security teams, volunteers)
  • Workplaces (administrators, managers, human resources)
  • Retail and restaurant (owners, managers, staff)
  • Police Officers and Security Industry
  • Policymakers (school board, city council, county, state, and federal)
  • Journalists and researchers
Cost & What's Included: Expand
Agenda: Expand

8:00: Registration Opens
9:00: Welcome (logistics; introductions; diffusion of benefits)
9:30: Mass shootings in context (prevalence; definitions; the database)
10:00: Who are the mass shooters? (data dive)
10:30: Break (discussion questions)
11:00: Mass shooters have 4 things in common (data dive)
11:30: Profiles of mass shooters and table top exercise
12:00: Lunch
12:30: A new framework for prevention and intervention, covering:

  • Situational crime prevention
  • Gun safety
  • Social contagion (media & social media)
  • Childhood trauma
  • Crisis intervention & suicide prevention
  • Culture of care, procedural justice

2:45: Break
3:00: The R-Model (building an intervention team; scenarios)
4:30: Next steps (implementation, questions, discussion)
5:00: End

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Disclaimer: This project was supported by Award No. 2018-75-CX-0023, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.

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