Training Certificate Classes
Please carefully review the information below before signing up for classes.
The early bird and regular registration fees automatically include access to general assembly and all breakout sessions.
The classes listed below are optional and an additional fee of $150 or $250, depending on the class.
AM classes begin at 8am / PM classes begin at 1pm.
There are a limited number of spots, varying on the class.
If a class is full, you can request to be put on a waitlist in the event of a spot opening up.
All classes will be held on Sunday, December 7th, with the exception of LE Live-Fire Stop the Killing/SIM
These conference class seats are guaranteed to those that pay first. Payment or intent that payment will be sent must be submitted by November 3, 2025. If this action is complete on or before the 3rd, your seat will be secured. Starting November 4th the course will be opened to the waitlist and whomever pays first will gain a seat until the class is full.
Starting November 4th, 2025, students on a waitlist will receive email notification if a spot has opened up so they can pay for the class and ensure their spot.
Attendees can sign up for as many additional courses as they wish, as long as there is no overlap in times.
Shuttles will be provided for off-site courses
$150 Training Certificate Classes
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Active Attack Incident Management
This course adopts an approach that empowers the first responding officers to take command promptly and effectively. It establishes a systematic and organized process to then expand the Incident Command structure as key leadership, partner agencies, and resources arrive. Anchored in the principles of NIMS ICS, this simple but systematic approach minimizes confusion, improves communication, manages chaotic situations, and ultimately increases casualty survival rates.
Emphasizing the effective collaboration among various response units such as law enforcement, fire, EMS, public safety communications, and emergency management, the course focuses on how each agency establishes command and then seamlessly integrates together to improve efficiency and control. The course will address the many mission critical decision points throughout the process, as well as the importance of staging, integrated response, Unified and Area Commands. This course involved lecture, discussion, tabletop exercises, then culminates in multi-disciplinary exercises with law enforcement and Fire/EMS students from other concurrent conference courses.Dates: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 100 students (Mix of LE, fire, EMS of any rank)
Location: At hotel
Instructors: Steve Jones & Joe Shirley -
Advanced Tactical Medicine (EMT-B / EMT-A, EMT-P)
The Advanced Tactical Medicine course will follow TECC guidelines and go above and beyond the basic medical blocks covered in AAIR and FRM. Course topics include bleeding control, whole blood transfusion, surgical cricothyrotomy, and needle/finger thoracostomy.
This course will culminate in a muti-disciplinary exercise with law enforcement and command elements from other courses.
Dates: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 30 students (Paramedics)
Location: At hotel
Instructors: Andrew Huitt -
Ballistic Breaching for the First Responder (LE only)
This operator level course is a comprehensive introduction to the proper deployment and application of ballistic breaching. The course highlights weapon and ammunition selection, aim points and angles of attack, and hinge breaching. During this course students will conduct patterning drills, approaches and set up at the breach point, and live-fire practical application.
Student equipment list: 12 Ga Shotgun; 5 12Ga Shotgun rounds (department issued ammo); 50 rounds of 12Ga bird shot; personal body armor; eye and ear protection; gloves; hydration system; appropriate range attire; note-taking materialDate: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 20 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors: Patric Bradshaw & James Crosson -
CRCC - Civilian Response and Casualty Care
First responder agencies are frequently requested by schools, businesses, and community members for direction and presentations on what they should do if confronted with an active attacker event. The Civilian Response and Casualty Care (CRCC) course, designed and built on the Avoid, Deny, Defend (ADD) strategy developed by ALERRT in 2004, provides strategies, guidance and a proven plan for surviving an active shooter event. This course combines the civilian response with the Stop the Bleed Campaign, which empowers civilians to provide life-saving medical aid before first responders ever arrive. Topics include the history and prevalence of active shooter events, civilian response options, medical issues, and considerations for conducting drills. Participants in this Train-the-Trainer course will receive a manual and PowerPoint presentation suitable for use in their own presentations.
Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 40 students
Location: At hotel
Instructors: TBD -
Fire As A Weapon (FAAW) - Live Class
Fire as a weapon (FAAW) is the use of fire, smoke, or flammable materials normally used with other attack vectors that confound incident response, and which requires an integrated response for incident stabilization. Criminals and terrorists have used FAAW in many incidents, including well-known incidents such as: Waco TX, 1993; Mumbai India, 2008; Ferguson MO, 2014-15; and Honolulu HI, 2020 as well as many smaller incidents. FAAW incidents are continually evolving, both in magnitude and frequency, and the training to mitigate FAAW must also continually evolve. This course will begin with lecture and discussion, then move to an offsite location for hands-on.
Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 60 students
Room: At hotel
Instructors: John Cantarella, Brad Elkins, Russ Howard, & Scott Hembree -
Live-Fire Solo Response (LE only) #1
This course will cover reasons and methods to carry off-duty and on-duty for plain clothes officers, levels of intervention, deadly force policies and case studies, ergonomic considerations for plain clothes carry, options for mitigating the occurrence of blue-on-blue shootings.
Student equipment list: Students will need eye protection/ear protection/duty gear, 200 rounds of pistol ammo and at least 2 magazinesDate: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class size: 20 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors: Glen Gold, Randy Milstead, Jamie Harvel, Steve McCurley -
Live-Fire Solo Response (LE only) #2
This course will cover reasons and methods to carry off-duty and on-duty for plain clothes officers, levels of intervention, deadly force policies and case studies, ergonomic considerations for plain clothes carry, options for mitigating the occurrence of blue-on-blue shootings.
Student equipment list: Students will need eye protection/ear protection/duty gear, 200 rounds of pistol ammo and at least 2 magazinesDate: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class size: 20 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors: Brian White, Tony Pissarro, Pat Straker, James Maddox -
Low-Light Building Search Overview - AM & PM Options
This 4-hour overview will cover use of a hand-held light vs a weapon-mounted light in approaches, working thresholds, and suspect control in various lighting conditions.
Learning Objective 1 - The student will be able to recognize the importance of proper mental conditioning, tactics, physical skills, and equipment and how together they will increase the probability of winning a low-light confrontation.
Learning Objective 2 - Students will be able to recognize and articulate different lighting conditions and how to best work approaches, thresholds and entries in that condition.
Learning Objective 3 - Students will be able to demonstrate how to properly perform during approaches, thresholds and entries under varied lighting conditions.
Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8 AM or 1 PM
Length: 4 hours
Class Size: 20 students
Location: At hotel
Instructors: Erin Clewell & Brian Ellingson -
Manual Breaching for the First Responder
This operator level course is a comprehensive introduction to the proper deployment and application of manual breaching. The course highlights tool selection, strike points, breaching techniques, and identifying inward / outward opening doors. During this course students will conduct a series of breaches with traditional and exigent breaching tools.
Student equipment list: Eye protection, ear protection, long sleeves, gloves. hydration system; appropriate range attire; note-taking material. If you have a tool you would like to try out please bring it.
Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Times: 8AM or 1PM
Length: 4 hours
Class Size: 20 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Center Range
Instructors: Erik Spriegel & Brad Doring -
Pre-Staged RTF - Live Fire
**THIS CLASS IS STILL PENDING AND MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE**
The Rescue Task Force (RTF) program has become a national model for the triage, treatment, and rapid transport of casualties from a crisis site to higher definitive care. The Pre-staged RTF Course challenges the notion that the RTF model is exclusive to “surprise” active attack incidents and demonstrates that the process can be extremely effective in any large scale or significant event. The course will address concepts such as interagency agreements and responsibilities, deployment locations and strategies, unified command organization, terminology, communications, equipment/vehicles, and training. Through case studies, data, and live scenarios the students will learn and practice this life saving program that can be pre-deployed for concerts/festivals, sporting events, entertainment districts, planned protests, and so much more. The course will culminate with integrated live fire deployment scenarios, with medical components, at a firearms range. Don't miss this chance to see how valuable the process can be for your agencies!
Presentation: Lecture, discussion, scenarios, and live fire exercises
Students: LE and Fire/EMS of any rank and active-duty military
Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 24 students (12 LE & 12 Med)
Location: TBD
Instructors: TBD -
Vehicle Ambush/Rescue/DTC/ITC - AM & PM options
**THIS CLASS IS STILL PENDING AND MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE**
This 4-hour course is designed to familiarize the student with conducting firearms proficiency, close-quarter engagement considerations, and mass-casualty care within a hostile environment. Weapons manipulation/accuracy/proficiency (primary and secondary system), Officer down scenarios, and medical treatment will be following established Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines and ALERRT-established medical protocols.
The course will utilize a combination of range instruction, individual and buddy team skill stations, and scenario-based exercises with the incorporation of role players. After this course, students will have better confidence with weapons systems, active shooter response communication, a basis of LE incident command considerations, individual tactical gear, and vehicle support from high repetition application in continued exposure to multiple scenarios.
Multiple instructors from ALERRT/ 18 Systems Consulting will be present to assist the students throughout the duration.Date: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Times: 8 AM or 1 PM
Length: 4 hours
Class Size: 20 students
Location: TBD
Instructors: TBD
$250 Training Certificate Classes
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LE Live-Fire Stop the Killing/SIM
Most law enforcement training takes place in a dry environment, on a flat range, or in a marking cartridge environment. Full appreciation of the do’s and don’ts found within the tactics in our courses usually can only be achieved when done in a live-fire environment. That is, after all, the environment we will work in on “the day.”
In this course, Law Enforcement students will work through the process of going from flat range to live-fire house to apply the operational benchmarks of Stop the Killing/S.I.M.
If you are a certified ALERRT law enforcement instructor and you haven’t applied the course materials to a live-fire environment before, this course is definitely for you. This course will culminate in a muti-disciplinary exercise with medical and command elements from other courses.Student round count:
200 rifle ball
200 rifle frangible or duty
100 pistol ball
100 pistol frangible or dutyIf you don’t have a rifle then bring:
200 pistol ball
100 pistol frangible or dutyDates: Tuesday, Dec 9 - Wednesday, Dec 10
Time: 8AM
Length: 16 hours (8 hours each day)
Class Size: 24 students (LE only)
Location: ALERRT Range
Instructors: Paul Stephens, Brian Beach, Steve Lucio, Daniel Duckworth, Ryan Watkins, Matt Wasko -
MARCH Out of the Darkness
A cadaver based critical skills course for LEO/FF/EMS.
This is a hands-on program geared for the first on-scene. If you are an ALERRT certified instructor who has not yet experienced this level of application, this is the course for you!
Topics covered include:
Adult and Pediatric Bleeding (Injury types to include dissection and instrument usage) Direct Pressure, Wound Packing, Pressure Dressing, Tourniquet Applications & Modifications, Junctional Bleeding Control, Pelvic Binding
Fundamental Airway and Respiratory Management (Position, BLS & Supraglottic, Surgical)
Fundamental Thoracic Injury Management (Open & Closed - Chest Seals, Anterior & Lateral Decompression, Simple Thoracostomy)
Dates: Sunday, Dec 7
Start Time: 8 AM
Length: 8 hours
Class Size: 36 students
Location: Center for Emergency Health Sciences Lab - Bulverde, TX
Instructors: Kenneth Pippin