Our Services
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In person or virtual initial consult
Security Baseline Assessment & Consultation
Full Spectrum of Leadership Training Options
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The Secure School Tool streamlines your path to establishing a comprehensive security program and developing a prioritized security improvement plan.
If you are not sure where to start or already have a plan in place, this tool is a game changer!
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We offer initial security screenings to provide actionable feedback for systematizing security, and comprehensive security vulnerability assessments to clarify organizational strengths and weaknesses, guiding your path to effective security.
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Leverage our proven resources and templates to efficiently design and implement your security systems with confidence!
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We offer dynamic training sessions and programs:
1. Quick, Hands-On Sessions
90-Minute Workshops: Experiential sessions focused on key leadership and security skills.
2. Core Skill Training
Think-Move-Communicate Training: Essential security response training focused on clear thinking and action under pressure.
Leadership Development Courses: Training to build better managers and leaders at every level.
3. Comprehensive Programs
School Security Leader Academy (40 Hours): Our complete, week-long program for becoming an expert school security leader.
4. Events & Conferences
Keynote Speakers: Expert speakers for conferences, events, or company-wide meetings.
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Exercise development involves conducting large-scale exercises to test systems, foster communication with first responders, build relationships, and unite the community for preparedness, ultimately leading to continuous improvement and operationalizing security plans.
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security screenings and assessments
We offer initial security screenings to provide actionable feedback for systematizing security, and comprehensive security vulnerability assessments to clarify organizational strengths and weaknesses, guiding your path to effective security.
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systematic safety & Security
Let us help you quickly systematize security in your organization with robust, comprehensive, and multilayered plans that eliminate single points of failure.
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security locker
The Security Locker is an organized, searchable, and access-controlled internal site providing 24/7 access to critical Safety, Security, and Emergency Management information and resources.
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training
We offer diverse training tools, including active shooter response, drills, SPED in a crisis, and exercise planning, with options tailored to your specific topic.
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school security leader academy
The School Security Leader Academy is a 40-hour course that equips school security leaders with essential skills, resources, and a professional network for effective K-12 security.
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leadership development
Our Leadership Development experientials, include the popular Shackleton Series, offer engaging training on culture, perception and perspective, leadership science, neuroscience and more, leveraging real-world lessons to unify diverse teams.
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keynote speaker
We have engaged audiences at numerous events and in many organizations, offering dynamic speakers to bring passion and purpose to your team.
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exercise development
Exercises done right test systems, foster communication, build relationships, and unite communities around preparedness, leading to continuous improvement and operationalized security plans.
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Tell us your need, your learning approach, and we will get at it!
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At ADVANCE, we relentlessly focus on the basics. Drills are an extremely important tool to help build mastery and consistency in the basics! Drills are not exercises. Drills done right with trauma informed practices incorporated and at age appropriate levels can still achieve the targeted learning objectives. Let us help you systematize drills in your organization!
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Emergency Operation Centers and Security Operations Centers are performance multipliers. Depending on the size and nature of your district or organization you may run one 24/7, during the duty day or only when necessary to activate it, but having it ready to go with team members trained to operate is 100% a necessity for all. Let us help you find the fit that best serves your school/organization.
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Need to write an Emergency Operation Plan (EOP) or do a review and update? Let’s do it! Having an updated EOP is important on many levels. Let us help you get it right from the start!
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Need specialized knowledge or an unbiased opinion to help make the most informed decision possible. Let us help you with the perspective of an expert witness.
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Go Buckets are about empowerment to your team. No cookie cutter solution is going to work for every real-world emergency situation. While an organization will need to move into a security posture appropriate to the incident, staff must be empowered to make decisions based on the circumstances they are facing. Go buckets provide staff with tools and options to make that happen. Let’s figure out what makes the most sense for your team!
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Time… It's a finite resource where there are never enough hours in the day! Funding seems to fall in the same bucket these days. Let us help you save some time and secure the funding you need for a grant of your choosing!
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Schools have a role in both incident and unified command. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. In order to be effective in this role, you need to understand the structure and speak the language. Let us help you be confident in your incident and unified command role!
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Post incident, sometimes it's just best to have a third party facilitator come in to help draw out the lessons learned in a way that all of the working relationships stay intact! Let us help you start to live After Action Reviews as a way of life! It will change everything!
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Unfortunately, active shooter response has become a necessary life skill. Incidents of this nature have occurred everywhere - businesses, parades, concerts,malls, schools, athletic events, night clubs, movie theaters, etc. The good news is this is a skill that can be trained to significantly increase your likelihood of survival. If you never have to use it, great, but you do not ever want to be in a real world situation with your last thought being I wish I was more prepared. Let us help you build confidence and competence in your ability to navigate any type of security situation!
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Good boards play a pivotal role in organizations. They provide governance and oversight, set strategic goals, monitor financial health, hire leadership and represent the organization to stakeholders and the public. It’s important that they stay informed with the current operating environment and best practices. Let us help you and your board be effective in supporting the teams they serve!
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Uvalde, Parkland, Columbine, Virginia Tech, the list goes on and on. Looking back on the catastrophic mass casualty events that have occurred across our nation can be key to operationalizing the hard lessons learned. Let us facilitate a case study deep dive for your team!
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Numerous lives have been lost and/or changed forever during real world incidents in attempting to confront an armed individual without the appropriate training and resources. Command posts are fortified areas in your facility with a full complement of resources that allow teams to remain safe, establish effective command and control, communicate effectively and serve as a node for the marshalling of resources. Command posts allow teams to quickly paint the picture of the common operating picture for law enforcement and other first responders and to gain accountability of staff and students. Command posts also provide a space for school leadership and law enforcement to navigate evolving situations together. We have used command posts well for many years and can help you do the same. Once you have them in place and see the value, you will never go back!
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Communications is the lifeblood of any effective emergency response. It’s also something that every organization needs to focus on always. Waiting until you are in the midst of an emergency is not the time to figure out how to communicate effectively to your stakeholders. Let's talk it out and lay out a plan that helps to set the necessary conditions of trust with your community.
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Need a team of security professionals on call to help you respond quickly to the unforgiving moment of need? Say the word, and we can be there!
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Security as an afterthought can get expensive real quick! Let us help you get it right the first time with the critical security considerations for new building design or remodel.
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Have an incident you are facing and need extra hands or expertise? Say the word and we will get people moving your way!
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This may sound intimidating, but it's not! If you are looking for feedback from a second set of eyes on your security protocols, say no more! We can check doors, we can observe trouble areas, we can look at visitor management, events, etc. in a non-confrontational way. This is a step toward creating awareness around areas that are working and need to be sustained and areas that may need shored up and improved.
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Need a second set of eyes? Have an incident? Let us look into the situation. We can assign an investigator to provide the analysis you need to make the best decision!
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Reunification is a core critical task for schools. You do not want to wait until you are in the middle of an incident to try and figure out how to do reunification. Schools need to know how to do reunification on site for minor incidents and districts need to know how to execute offsite district lead reunification for larger scale incidents. Doing this well builds trust with your community and helps you navigate situations to a successful conclusion. We can get you set up and trained to have reunification be a strength for your team!
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“Safety” gets a bad rap, but it is a legitimate keystone action that improves performance across all other areas of the organization. We can help you break the chain of mundane Safety Committee meetings and bring back the “e” in safety for excitement! Let’s do Safety in Camouflage or the forensics lane and get at the root cause of this issue!
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Don’t know where to start with your security program? Not a problem. We can walk you through the Secure School Tool and get you on the road to security success!
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While it’s nice to do it all at once, we know that decisions, funding and resources take time; however, a security improvement plan can help you in gaining clarity on what your prioritization trajectory looks like based on the needs of your organization. Stop talking about it and let’s move the needle!
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Need security for an event, situation or facility, let us know. We have security guards that we can get on site asap!
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We have seen it all on this front! No floor plans or site plans, hand drawings of floor plans and site plans, multiple versions, very inaccurate versions and some rock solid ones! Not sure where to start? Start with getting your floor plans and site plans accurate. These are an extremely important component to an effective emergency response. They should be posted in classrooms, command posts, with first responders, at your 911 call center, etc. The only thing worse than not having them might be having inaccurate versions of them. These maps will be used to make life saving decisions when seconds matter. We can help you get them right!
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Don’t forget the students! Students want to be trained and 100% can participate in training at age appropriate levels. Let us help you figure out the best approach to engage your students population with dynamic leadership experiences and/ security training!
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When we say sponsorship, we mean leaders that have the necessary influence, the ability to make decisions, access to resources, relationships to make things happen. Effective sponsorship by the right leader is the number one variable in the success or failure of a project or an initiative. It’s important that leaders know what good sponsorship is and it's important that those needing sponsorship know how to set the conditions for effective sponsorship by their sponsor. Effective sponsorship is a game changer. Let us help you and your leaders get this right!
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Don’t have time to run a full exercise? Or, maybe you are building up to a full exercise. Table tops are discussion-based training sessions where teams discuss their roles and responses to hypothetical emergency scenarios. They are used to test and improve emergency procedures and incident response. Small or large, let us plan your next table top!
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Data tells a story and getting to understanding quickly and with clarity helps us to adjust our strategies and tactics appropriately. Whether you need help setting up your incident tracker or analyzing the data, we can help get you started!
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You have looked at it a thousand times, but need the perspective of a fresh set of eyes. We have been there! Let us take a look at your security website and make sure it has the critical content necessary to inform your stakeholders and be a trust building tool.
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A guide to implementing the basics in school security and developing a future road map toward a school security improvement plan.
