Get Safe Choice Personal Safety Inc
PROGRAMS
GET SAFE's ON THE EDGE: School Safety & Targeted Violence Prevention Training Program
Our innovative program has been developed to address targeted acts of violence on school campuses by implementing comprehensive and systemic programming focused on PREVENTION instead of just response. With courses available for ALL members and influencers within a school community – students, parents, faculty/staff, and law enforcement - we work to create safer schools for everyone. Current headlines only serve to remind us that, now more than ever, our school campuses might not be as safe and secure as they once were. Teachers are faced with personal threats and circumstances for which they were never trained nor prepared. It is our mission to change that. The full course package can be presented for a total estimated budget of $36,000 per school site: 8-hour Faculty/staff course with live virtual simulator at $10,000; 3-session Parenting with Purpose Series for parents/guardians at $100/family or $10,000 for 100 families; multi-session SAFE Student Academy focusing on bullying prevention, mental health, cultural tolerance and leadership skills for students at $13,000; 4-hour Advanced Crisis Intervention"Youth in Crisis course for law enforcement and School Resource Officers at $3,000 per group.
CA Education Code outlines requirements for schools to implement planning and prevention activities regarding targeted school violence as part of their comprehensive school safety plan. Across the nation, there are dozens of available trainings on the topic of “Active Assailant Response”, i.e. what to do during an active shooter or active assailant situation. From Run-Hide-Fight, to Avoid-Deny-Defend, to React-Escape-Survive, educational establishments can access any number of free videos and training programs. These programs are often labeled as "prevention". However, they often are, in fact, still response-driven and focus solely on mitigating loss of life in an active incident, which statistics show have had little-to-no effect on the NUMBER of critical incidents plaguing our nation. GET SAFE’s ON THE EDGE: School Safety & Targeted Violence Prevention Training is a true prevention and early intervention program, as the skills and tactics learned are for application long before a critical incident ever occurs, thereby initiating a movement and change in school culture that provides both a significant reduction in loss of life, AND in the number and frequency of critical incidents. The following are just a few of the favorable outcomes from implementing our comprehensive, systemic training program:
1. Trains school staff and administrators to recognize pre-assaultive indicators, and support and promote conflict resolution between and among students
2. Teaches students techniques for self- and peer-advocacy, leadership, and resolving conflicts without violence
3. Guides law enforcement agencies in the development of crisis intervention and de-escalation skills appropriate for youth in crises, and the means to build community trust and rapport
4. Educates parents and caregivers on establishing family values, setting boundaries and reasonable expectations, addressing the influence of technology, and building trust and rapport in order to influence change.
5. Complements and improves a school's Comprehensive School Safety Plan, as required by the California Education Code
6. Provides favorable content for School Accountability Report Cards
Breaking Barriers for Survivors of Violent Crimes
This fully-customizable program is specifically designed for female victims of violent assaults and their children, including those that have suffered physical and sexual abuse in childhood, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Our unique approach combines counseling, individual and group processing, personal safety education, and comprehensive self-defense training to reduce and prevent victimization, promote self-confidence, and increase feelings of empowerment. One of the hallmarks of the Breaking Barriers program is that it encourages participants to safely confront and re-experience the physical traumas they have suffered, to support themselves and others through the recovery process. GET SAFE has also developed a similar curriculum for the children of women who have been victimized, that utilizes positive adult role-modeling, safety strategies and group discussions, which often result in healing disclosures and improved relationships with their parents. Breaking Barriers is a program that collaborates with other community agencies and professionals including therapists, rape crisis centers, and law enforcement. We can include a program specifically geared towards males to reduce perpetration of violence and improve non-violent conflict resolution skills. This carefully designed program includes: · Managing physiological responses that can occur in stressful situations with methods for reducing anxiety and tension · Tips for safe dating, relationships, and sexual expression · Offensive and defensive self-defense techniques · Combating bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination · Assertiveness and self-advocacy · Insight into the prosecutorial process · Understanding the domino effect - and how to prevent it For a total estimated budget of $50,000, the program is divided into 2 pieces: 8-session Pilot Program for 10 survivors and Academic Evaluation at $30,000; 8-session Survivor Series for up to 12 participants and their children ages 5-17 at $20,000 per cycle.
Past participants have stated that although they have attended traditional counseling for years, this program encouraged them to confront their trauma in a way that pushed their recovery to new levels and empowered them to truly view themselves as survivors instead of victims.
“You helped me to remain calm, dig deep and find my confidence, and gave me the defense skills I needed to protect myself. It makes me cry just writing this to you, because I know you can never understand just how much you helped me. I know I am one of MANY women who have to deal with these horrors. I pray that you can continue to do what you do, and help so many more women like me.”
“I came to you nervous, timid and scared – of one person in particular. You LISTENED when I was not talking, you gained my TRUST, and you helped me learn how to protect myself and regain some of the self-confidence that I had lost so long ago.”
–Testimonials from "Breaking Barriers" participants
Following are just a handful of the positive outcomes this program provides:
1. Educates on the causes and effects of violent behavior
2. Provides tools needed to fight back and regain a sense of control and self-confidence that many have lost
3. Teaches survivors how to trust in themselves and others again
4. Provides tools to help intervene in and end the "cycle of violence"
5. Helps prevent the likelihood of re-victimization or perpetration
Stronger, Safer Persons with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
DID YOU KNOW? Americans with disabilities are victims of violent crimes at nearly seven times the rate of their peers without disabilities. In response, for almost 4 decades, GET SAFE has positively impacted the lives of thousands of persons with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD), and the people who support them, by providing the critical tools to protect them. Through long-standing partnerships with CA Regional Centers, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Adult Transition Programs, Day Programs, residential facilities and more, our experienced Advocacy and Training Specialists approach typically "sensitive" subject matters in an entertaining, highly interactive manner by breaking down communication barriers usually associated with the topics of personal safety and self-defense, healthy relationships and safe sexuality, public safety and safe interactions with law enforcement, functional legal competency, bullying prevention, and civic engagement. These valuable services are provided to over 7,000 persons of all ages and (dis)abilities each year. Two programs that GET SAFE is focusing on, and require additional funding are: Caregiver & Service Provider Training: $10,000 for 5 agencies Training for parents, caregivers, service providers and law enforcement officers is widely under-funded or fiscally ignored altogether. Regional Centers are the primary financial resource for people with I/DD, but rarely, if ever, are they permitted to fund training for the people who provide care and services for this population, including their own staff. Training content focused on topics such as crisis intervention, de-escalation, diversity and unconscious bias, mental health awareness, and self-care puts crucial skills directly into the hands of those who strive to ensure the safety and well-being of one of the most underserved and marginalized populations. The ability to train 5 agencies in a related service area could bring about significant, systemic change. Training for Non-Registered Persons with I/DD: $22,500 per year Our Safety and Advocacy Training Program serves thousands of Regional Center clients each year, with tremendous success in the areas of greater independence, inclusivity, and empowerment. Every year, sadly, GET SAFE encounters approximately 150 persons with I/DD who are not registered or serviced by their local Regional Center, and therefore not eligible for funded training. At approximately $150 per training participant (the approved average Regional Center rate), an award of $22,500 would cover the expenses for the same training and skills-building received by their RC-registered peers.
By providing valuable services to both persons with I/DD and those who care for and interact with them, we cast a wider net of protection, inclusivity, and tolerance within communities. Using realistic scenarios, interactive activities, props, simple and appropriate language and examples, repetition of key ideas, and humor, GET SAFE's Stronger, Safer Persons with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Program helps reduce this population's risk for further discrimination and marginalization.
Additional benefits for persons with I/DD include:
1. Reduced incidents of abuse and victimization among this population
2. Development of social skills, and the ability to communicate correct information about physical, mental and emotional being
3. Advancement of skills needed to create healthy relationships and safe sexual attitudes
4. Increase in self-advocacy and civic involvement
For caregivers, service providers and law enforcement officers, further benefits include:
1. Increased understanding regarding diverse populations and approaches to crisis intervention and de-escalation
2. Improvement in effective communication strategies, compassion and influence to positively change behaviors, both in-field and in-office
3. Reduction in negative and violent encounters between law enforcement/community and individuals with I/DD
4. Improvement in better identifying, interacting with, and servicing persons with I/DD, especially in response to violence or discrimination against this population
5. Reduction in institutional stigma and moral injury
6. Decrease in compassion fatigue through the practice of self-care
GET SAFE's Online Training Expansion
GET SAFE currently offers several self-paced courses for California-based law enforcement, dispatch, and corrections agencies. These courses have been received with tremendous success, and sustain an ever-growing list of participating organizations who continue to recognize and learn from our significant expertise in crisis intervention, de-escalation, and community policing. The existing programs provide us with an effective model to guide expansion into similar markets across the nation, and even internationally. Expansion has already begun and continues to gain momentum. To build on that success and momentum, our aim is to dramatically increase outreach by creating self-paced, online training curriculum for more members of our global communities. Target populations include, but are not limited to, persons with intellectual & developmental disabilities and their service providers, corporate workplaces, educational institutions, and community-based organizations. In this post-Covid world, the interest in web-based programming increases as rapidly as technology advances, and by creating more online content, GET SAFE keeps pace. Courses include tip sheets, lecture videos, reenactment videos, engaging activities and quizzes, and resources. Funding required is $25,000 per course.
Benefits of the Online Training Expansion would include:
1. Ability to teach more populations with less financial resources
2. Creation of interactive content that surpasses static, passive content in driving conversions and share-ability by over 2x
3. Enhancement of website and social media interactions
4. Provision of expansive and profound learning benefits for students
5. Exponential increase in the impact of our mission
CONTACT
Get Safe Choice Personal Safety Inc
18122 Norwood Park Pl.
Tustin, CA California
Phone: 7142254800