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Since 1980, Assault Prevention has educated the public about personal safety issues. Nearly 20 years ago, we expanded our services to include individual and group consultation and instruction, including personal safety, defense, and awareness training; corporate threat assessment of physical facilities, intellectual property, and key personnel; and presentation of local, national, and global trend research and analysis. We also offer specialized security.
Our clients range from individuals to corporate groups, communities, and non-profit organizations: some of whom have experienced violence or have recognized their vulnerability. Other clients have been lucky so far but want to be proactive about protecting themselves and those around them. Our highly trained staff tailor each assessment or training session to the individual’s or group’s needs, ensuring they educate and empower people in the most relevant ways.
The Assault Prevention team includes a wide range of experts who have experience dealing with real-life violence, as they have been professionally involved in violent situations in careers such as the military, law enforcement, corrections, private security, and executive protection. They have studied extensively and received certifications in the areas of use of force, firearms, vulnerability assessment, threat assessment, forensic psychology, behavioral characteristics, interpersonal communications, emergency planning and preparedness, instructional theory, and executive protection.
We believe in the following foundational principles:
- We will operate on the principles of character, integrity, respect, and honesty.
- Wholeness depends on physical, spiritual, and emotional wellness. Effective training and professional services will encompass more than physical techniques and motor skills. It will recognize these other aspects.
- Training and professional services need to be a process where people of a community grow in their ability to solve their own problems and take control of their lives. This process is just as important as the achievement of goals. The process brings teamwork and effectiveness to a new level.
- Training and professional services will include principles that could be carried on by clients, using their own resources. Training will be holistic and integrated.
- Presentations need to be within the context and living circumstances of the client’s world and groups. For instance, the police officer has a different world than that of the security officer, and the executive protection specialist has a different world than that of the single mother. Churches are an example of yet another unique environment, differing from corporations. Families have concerns that are far different than that of the single male. Each of these people has his or her own concerns, and each community has its own customs and language. We will speak the client’s language.
- Instructors and assessors who understand these principles will be the cornerstone of development. In turn, the community, based on the characteristics of the group being taught, should choose its own leaders that are faithful, available, and teachable. Those leaders will carry on with the training after we leave.
- For real, sustainable development to occur, there must be a vision of the community, group, or individuals being taught. A thorough risk/needs assessment must be conducted to determine that vision.
- The work we do must transform lives to be sustainable. Sitting through a course is not enough. Lecture is often the poorest method of education. Therefore, the presentation of material must consider the differences in people and their learning styles. Instruction must include multiple formats and be experiential. This applies to assessments as well.
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