THE CHURCH RESPONSE TEAM
CHURCH RESPONSE TEAM
From natural disasters to medical emergencies to active shooters, the modern church faces unprecedented risks. To mitigate these risks, many churches are forming response teams.
The CHURCH RESPONSE TEAM is comprised of men and women with the GIFT of of SERVING by way of protecting the flock. Most churches select response team members who have backgrounds in the military, law enforcement, as well as civilians who have special skills and/or interests.
Regardless of your team's prior expertise, the protection of the flock at your church has unique needs that might not have been properly addressed in your Response Team's prior training. That's where Patriot Training can help. We offer a few basic training classes that help everyone get trained up to a common level of skill for the most likely risks they might respond to.
PATRIOT TRAINING Offers life-saving instructional segments for your response team.
All Church Response Team training classes start with the Fundamentals of Church Response (2 hours). This class introduces needed roles, fundamentals of responsibilities, needed knowledge for team members, team member selection, how to handle natural disasters and other emergencies, and more.
Topics Taught:
- Church Response Fundamentals
- Emergency Trauma Medical
- Verbal De-Escalation
- Defensive Pistol
EMERGENCY TRAUMA MEDICAL
This segment, patterned after the world-famous Stop the Bleed, and is designed to teach your team the hands-on way to pro-actively stop critical bleeding in order to save lives.
Learn to recognize and treat life-threatening bleeding immediately, using direct pressure, tourniquets, and wound packing.
VERBAL DE-ESCALATION
More and more frequently, churches face the difficult situation of having to deal with agitated individuals. Being able to verbally de-escalate the situation is absolutely critical - one wrong step and your church and members of the response team may face criminal charges or civil suits.
Military and Police de-escalation techniques are very good - for military or police application. De-escalation in the civilian world is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT skill set. Where military and police force compliance through acknowledgement of vested authority, civilians CANNOT use this methodology without serious risk of disastrous consequence.
PATRIOT TRAINING teaches your Response Team members the hands-on methodology of how to open lines of communication with an agitated individual in this segment. Using techniques from corporate conflict resolution, hostage negotiation, and real world experience de-escalating agitated individuals in a church setting, you will learn how to create a dialogue, and how to handle if that is absolutely impossible.
USE OF DEFENSIVE FORCE
The sad fact is that active killers exist. Equally as unfortunate is that sometimes, these persons target places of worship as their battleground.
This class touches on:
- The legalities of the use of force.
- Considerations for the use of force.
- What to say to police after a use of force
- When not to use force
- And much, much more!
Defensive Pistol segment will cover:
- Safety
- Marksmanship
- Presentation
- What to do after the fight
- Ambushes
- Single-hand operation
- Pistol Positioning within a dynamic environment.
- There will also be a shooting qualification.
REGISTER YOUR TEAM
Register your team of 4 - 15 persons for training today. There are no per-person costs to worry about - Patriot Training offers this class for a flat fee. Take-home materials and certificates will be made available for all.
All denominations welcome.
All religions welcome.
Patriot Training is of the Christian faith, and also firmly believes that Jews, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, and others should all be able to worship without worry.