Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Active Shooter Response Solutions specializes in active threat response training for higher education institutions nationwide. Our programs serve both secular and faith-based universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and large research institutions. We offer BECON™ faculty and staff training, campus public safety officer training, student preparedness programs, Threat and Vulnerability Assessments (TVAs), and full-scale active threat rehearsals. Every program is custom-built for the specific campus environment.

Active Shooter Response Solutions works with universities and colleges of all sizes and types across the United States. Our clients include small residential liberal arts colleges, large public universities, community colleges, and faith-based institutions including CCCU, NECUSA, and AICUP member schools. We have extensive experience with institutions that prioritize community-oriented campus environments and require training approaches that balance rigorous preparation with sensitivity to campus culture.

Our university active threat response training covers situational awareness and threat recognition, active threat response protocols for faculty and staff, emergency action plan development and testing, campus public safety officer armed and unarmed response training, video case study analysis of real-world incidents, de-escalation techniques, and scenario-based active threat drills. Programs are typically delivered on-site over one to multiple days depending on the scope and size of the institution.

Standard Run-Hide-Fight programs provide a basic framework but leave most participants underprepared for the complexity of a real active threat incident. Active Shooter Response Solutions delivers BECON™ training — a proprietary framework developed from real-world Special Forces and law enforcement experience that goes beyond basic survival instincts. BECON™ builds genuine situational awareness, threat recognition skills, and decision-making capability through scenario-based training that reflects how real incidents actually unfold within campus environments.

Yes. Active Shooter Response Solutions provides comprehensive campus public safety team training for unarmed departments and armed campus police. This is not a specific active threat response course, although it is covered heavily. The training encompasses the full spectrum of what a campus safety department must deal with daily, or during once in a lifetime emergency incidents. This includes armed and unarmed active threat response protocols, tactical room clearing or search procedures, scenario-based exercises using role players, coordination with local law enforcement, and rehearsals. Our instructors are Army Special Forces veterans and law enforcement professionals with direct real-world experience in high-threat environments.

All Active Shooter Response Solutions training is delivered in-person at your campus. We travel nationwide to institutions across the United States. We do not deliver active threat response training through online video courses. The “active threat response industry” is filled with extremely boring, unmemorable, legalistic training designed to check the box. Effective active threat preparedness requires safe, calm but interesting training. Delivered by professionals who have experienced active threats or emergency incidents before. Our training does NOT include simulated gunfire shot within buildings or around students/staff but provides a few calm and safe practical exercises covering “barricade” and “oppose” techniques. Online training cannot replicate that.

The most effective approach is framing active threat preparedness as both a duty-of-care obligation and a financial investment rather than a cost. Campus vulnerability assessments from Active Shooter Response Solutions produce detailed reports that directly support applications for federal and state campus safety grants, including programs under the STOP School Violence Act. In many cases, the assessment cost is offset or fully covered by grant funding. We also provide documentation that supports Clery Act compliance and can reduce institutional liability exposure.

Pricing for university active threat response training depends on the scope of the engagement, the number of participants, the number of training days, and any additional services such as Threat and Vulnerability Assessments (TVAs) or emergency action plan development. Because every campus is different, Active Shooter Response Solutions provides custom proposals following an initial scoping conversation. Many institutions use federal and state safety grant funding to offset or fully cover the cost of training and assessments. Contact us to schedule a scoping call and receive a proposal tailored to your institution.