Training Catalog
CPPS offers a variety of workplace violence prevention and intervention training opportunities, including in-person, eLearning, and online learning. Additionally, we can support a full build-out of a workplace violence prevention and intervention program.
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Safe Workplace Suite
Online Courses
Self-paced online courses designed for HR, security, and safety professionals building the knowledge base to lead a workplace violence prevention program.
Threat Management Team Training
A 10-module online course designed to train Threat Management Team members in Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management, giving them the structured process, assessment tools, and intervention strategies needed to identify, evaluate, and manage potential threats before they escalate to violence.
Workplace Violence Instructor Certification
A certification program for safety, security, and HR professionals who want to deliver standards-based workplace violence prevention and response training within their organization or as an independent consultant, providing a complete curriculum, instructor materials, and ongoing support from CPPS subject matter experts.
eLearning
Self-paced courses covering workplace violence prevention, travel safety, de-escalation, threat recognition, and more. Available individually through a licensing agreement or bundled within a Safe Workplace Suite package. Contact us about licensing options.
Workplace Violence Fundamental Training
A compliance-aligned course for all personnel covering how to define workplace violence, recognize behaviors of concern, understand intimate partner violence, and respond to active assailant events, with customization options to meet requirements like California’s SB-553.
Workplace Violence Intermediate Training
A 22-minute course for managers and frontline leaders that builds on awareness-level training by covering threat recognition, de-escalation, documentation, support systems, and emergency response.
Workplace Violence Awareness, Prevention, and Response in Healthcare
A 30-minute course for healthcare personnel covering how to define workplace violence, recognize early warning signs, report concerning behavior, de-escalate interactions, and respond to active assailant events.
Flash Point
A 13-minute video course providing awareness-level training on recognizing workplace violence warning signs, reporting behaviors of concern, de-escalating tense situations, and identifying signs of domestic violence in the workplace. Designed to pair with Recognizing and Responding to Extreme Violence to meet prevailing standards.
When Lightning Strikes: Recognizing and Responding to Extreme Violence
A 10-minute video course equipping learners to recognize early indicators of extreme violence, understand response options, and interact appropriately with law enforcement during an active event. Designed to pair with Flash Point to meet prevailing standards.
“When Lightning Strikes” Recognizing and Responding to Extreme Violence: Warehouse
A 10-minute video course with the same learning objectives as the standard version, tailored specifically for warehouse environments. Designed to pair with Flash Point to meet prevailing standards.
De-Escalation Fundamental Training
A 19-minute course equipping learners with a practical understanding of verbal de-escalation, covering how conflict develops, the relationship between reason and emotion, and the Calm, Connect, and Capitalize approach.
De-Escalation: Cooling Expressive Encounters
A 20-minute course for managers and supervisors providing practical techniques for cooling heated interactions, with a focus on safety considerations when dealing with distressed individuals.
Insider Threat Awareness and Prevention
A 13-minute course helping personnel recognize and respond to behaviors of concern associated with insider threats, supporting organizations in building a culture of awareness and reducing the risk of internal security incidents.
Silent Storm: Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking
A course helping employees at all levels recognize the dynamics of domestic violence, understand its potential impact on the workplace, and identify action steps to protect both the affected employee and the organization.
Safe Termination Best Practices
A 15-minute course walking managers through best practices for safely and respectfully conducting employment terminations, including preparation, stakeholder coordination, and security planning when needed.
Working Effectively from Home
A 15-minute course covering best practices for remote work, including setting up an effective home office, managing isolation, communicating virtually, addressing inappropriate behavior, and minimizing cybersecurity risks.
Safe Harbor Travel Safety and Security
A 36-minute course preparing business travelers with safety and security awareness across three phases of travel: preparation, transit, and time at the destination, with customization options to reflect organizational policies and culture.
Hostage Survival
A course for travelers covering how to mitigate the risk of being taken hostage, respond effectively if captivity occurs, and apply the Calm, Connect, and Capitalize approach to high-risk situations, including express kidnapping.
Anti-Terrorism Awareness
A course teaching learners how to maintain situational awareness, detect surveillance, recognize warning signs of terrorism, and report suspicious activity, supporting a cooperative approach to community and organizational security.
Fundamentals of Crime Prevention
A 30-minute course teaching employees how to recognize suspicious activity, avoid becoming a target, and respond appropriately to dangerous situations, providing actionable personal safety skills applicable both at work and beyond.
Fundamentals of Security
A 27-minute course building a culture of safety by covering personal security and situational awareness, workplace physical security and behaviors of concern, and cybersecurity fundamentals, including identity protection and device security.
Beyond Lockdown: Preventing and Responding to Extreme School Violence
A 15-minute course for students, parents, teachers, and administrators covering how to recognize observable warning signs of potential school violence and respond effectively before situations escalate.
Microlearning
Short-form training modules designed to reinforce key safety concepts across your workforce — without disrupting the workday. Available as a packaged series or as standalone modules deployed through your existing LMS or communications channels.
Workplace Violence Prevention & Response Training Microlearning Series
A four-part series covering key concepts, early warning signs, and risk factors associated with workplace violence, including organizational policies and procedures that promote safety and accountability, and the impact of intimate partner violence on workplace violence. Total runtime approximately 10 minutes. Available as .MP4 ($4,995) or SCORM ($7,995).
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Standalone Microlearning Modules
Active Listening: Mastering the Fundamentals
Introduces four key principles for developing stronger listening skills: paying full attention, providing empathetic feedback, deferring judgment, and responding thoughtfully.
Avoiding and Responding to Civil Unrest
Equips individuals with three situational frameworks for navigating civil unrest: recognizing when participation is turning dangerous, identifying alternate routes, and assessing options when unrest develops at a present location.
Back to School Safety
Covers community safety responsibilities during the back-to-school season, including traffic and pedestrian awareness, reporting suspicious activity, and guidance for parents on emergency planning and preparing children for safety threats
Workplace Violence Prevention Begins With You
Reinforces individual responsibility in workplace violence prevention, covering how to familiarize with organizational WVPI policy, the expanded definition of workplace violence, the role every employee plays, and available reporting and support options.
Empathy in Conflict Management
Focuses on empathy as a practical de-escalation skill, covering what empathy means in a conflict context, how tone and sincerity anchor its effectiveness, and how to apply emotional labeling to reduce defensiveness in tense interactions.
Holiday Safety Tips for a Joyful Season
Provides four practical safety steps for the holiday season: planning ahead for foreseeable events, avoiding unfamiliar places alone, staying alert in public, and trusting instincts to respond appropriately to potential emergencies.
Intimate Partner Violence Impact on the Workplace
Examines how intimate partner violence affects the workplace, covering why IPV commonly remains hidden, how offenders create dependency, and what employees and organizations can do to recognize warning signs and support affected colleagues.
Protecting the Workplace Holistically
Builds holistic security awareness across three interconnected areas: physical security practices, information security habits, and workspace security habits for protecting devices, documents, and access badges.
Recognizing Behaviors of Concern
Challenges the myth that people simply “snap” and teaches employees to recognize early warning signs of potential violence, widen their awareness beyond physical acts to concerning behaviors, and take purposeful action before situations escalate.
Run, Hide, Fight: Responding to an Active Assailant
Introduces the Run, Hide, Fight framework for responding to an active assailant, covering when and how to apply each option, key actions within each phase, and how to interact with law enforcement when they arrive.
In-Person Training
Live, facilitated training delivered at your site or through open enrollment. Most programs are available in half-day, full-day, and multi-day formats, with one or two CPPS subject matter experts. Contact us to discuss format, audience, and scheduling.
Workplace Violence Prevention & Intervention
WVPI Manager and Leader Training
A 60-minute training for managers and supervisors covering threat recognition, documentation, maintaining organizational standards, and properly handling reports and concerns from employees. Also available with advanced de-escalation concepts included.
Executive-Level Training
A briefing for senior leaders on the importance of workplace violence prevention, BTAM, and the resources required to establish WVPI as an organizational priority. Available as a virtual half-day or an on-site full-day session. Also available with a personal safety component covering situational awareness, travel safety, and de-escalation.
Workplace Violence Instructor Certification (WVIC)
An 8-hour certification course that trains safety, security, and HR professionals to deliver standards-based workplace violence awareness and manager-level training within their organization or as independent consultants, providing a complete curriculum, instructor materials, and ongoing CPPS support. Available for individuals and enterprise teams.
Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management
Threat Management Team Training / BTAM
A live, scenario-based training for Threat Management Teams covering BTAM principles, incident management processes, intervention strategy development, safe termination best practices, and team-based case practice. Available in half-day, one-day, and two-day formats with one or two CPPS subject matter experts. Recommended annually following completion of the online TMT course.
Threat Management Training for HR
A training for HR professionals bridging common disciplinary processes with the dynamic nature of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management, covering BTAM principles, how to support the Threat Management Team, safe termination best practices, and scenario-based case practice. Recommended on a periodic basis.
Advanced De-Escalation Instructor Certification
An instructor certification workshop exclusively for WVIC graduates, equipping participants with advanced de-escalation instructional techniques, communication dynamics, and scenario-based training methods, with optional on-the-job coaching alongside a CPPS subject matter expert.
PERSONAL SAFETY
Personal Safety and De-Escalation Workshop
A 4-hour interactive workshop developing personal security awareness and practical de-escalation skills, covering situational awareness, the personal security mindset, effective communication techniques, and best practices for cooling heated encounters, including conflict resolution concepts applicable to the workplace.
Female Safety Training
A 3-hour training delivered by a female CPPS subject matter expert for female audiences, emphasizing the survival mindset and personal empowerment through situational awareness, travel safety, de-escalation and disengagement, and recognizing and responding to intimate partner violence and stalking.
Active Assailant Preparedness
Active Assailant Response Training
A 45–60 minute training equipping personnel with situational awareness, response options for an active assailant event, and practical guidance for interacting with law enforcement, combining classroom instruction with hands-on walkthrough exercises tailored to the organization’s environment.
Active Assailant Instructor Certification
A 4-hour certification course preparing in-house trainers to deliver active assailant preparedness training, covering classroom instruction, hands-on demonstrations, practical defensive concepts, and disarming techniques — reinforcing that individuals have actionable options during an extreme violence event.
Active Assailant Tabletop Exercise
A scenario-based tabletop exercise using a simulated active assailant crisis to evaluate an organization’s existing plans, communication, and response capabilities, using audiovisual aids and guided discussion to identify improvement areas across readiness, response, and recovery phases.
Active Assailant Response Exercise
A live exercise giving teams and employees hands-on practice responding to a simulated active assailant crisis, involving response teams, employees, and optional local emergency management partners to provide a holistic evaluation of organizational readiness and surface actionable improvement opportunities.
Active Assailant Preparedness Consultation
An onsite consultation in which CPPS subject matter experts assess site-specific layouts, existing capabilities, and available resources, partnering with leadership to refine the organization’s Active Assailant Plan and develop location-specific Standard Operating Procedures that align site-level personnel with enterprise-wide readiness requirements.
Crisis Management Team Tabletop Exercise (Active Assailant)
A scenario-driven tabletop exercise walking Crisis Management Teams through a simulated active assailant crisis, examining readiness, response, and recovery phases through guided discussion to surface gaps in plans, communication protocols, and role clarity across the organization.
Travel Risk Management
Traveler Training
Risk-based training tailored to the specific threat profile of travelers and their destinations, covering situational awareness, personal security, pre-travel planning, and emergency response across the preparation, transit, and destination phases, with curriculum adapted to both the traveler’s profile and destination risk classification.
Advanced High-Risk Travel (AHRT) Course
A 1–2 day training preparing travelers for high-threat environments through destination-specific instruction on situational awareness, surveillance detection and response, hostage survival, wrongful detention, crisis response, and travel risk planning, tailored to the traveler’s profile and destination risk classification.
Crisis Management Exercise (Travel Risk)
A simulation-based exercise preparing an organization’s Crisis Management Team to respond to travel-related crises such as hostage situations or wrongful detentions, replicating the volatile and complex dynamics of high-stress international incidents to develop and test response capabilities in a controlled environment.
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