First Responder & Community Defense
Training Program
Beginner and Advanced Emergency Medicine and Community Safety Trainings for Anti Racist Movement Organizers across Kentucky
With your support, we will equip 1,000 anti-racist organizers across Kentucky in hemorrhage control techniques, patient assessment systems, how-to move injured people, deescalation techniques, physical security planning, tactical emergency decision making, assessing and accessing local resources outside the state, and values-aligned ways to communicate with local, state, and federal crisis response agencies.
"The more allies and partners that are trained in this basic set of skills, the safer I will be on the frontlines and the more effective we can be as a united front."
- Anice C.
Louisville Community Defense Network
Training Tracks
Beginner Training
This is training is 3 hours long and intended for activists and organizers of all ages, experience, and skill levels. This training covers the three pre-hospital methods everyday people can use to stop life threatening bleeding: direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquet application.
This training also includes fundamental skill building in personal safety planning. Every training begins with conversation about the political context in which these skills are useful and offers next steps for further skill development. Those who attend this training will walk away with:
Tangible Stop the Bleed Skills and certification
Tools for Personal Safety Planning
Combat Approved Tourniquet (CAT) to take home
Advanced Cohort Training
This is an intensive 20 hours of training over 5 months. It is intended for organizers looking to deepen their first responder and community defense skills and who are already part of groups or organizations who are working to keep more and more people safe, without relying on the state, such as policing or punishment. The cohort series includes:
Stop the Bleed and Personal Safety Planning
Preparing for Active Shooters and Defense of Spaces and Places
Emergency Casualty Care and Safety Team Development
Principles and practices to navigate the Incident Command System (state response to crises)
Mass Casualty Incident Simulation to put all of these skills together
On-going coaching for your and your team between each training session
This training is for motivated organizers looking to gain and apply skills to their work and in their lives. Those who complete this training take with them:
Historical and political case studies to draw from
Tangible Stop the Bleed Skills and certification
First Responder bags with necessary medical equipment, ready to use
Tools for Personal Safety Planning
VPN’s and other internet safety mechanisms
Safety protocols for commonly used spaces
Safety equipment for commonly used spaces
Communication devices relevant to group’s context and need
Mapping tools for resources in your community
Risk Assessment skills
De-escalation skills and practices
Triage and Patient Assessment Systems
Tailored and on-going support to integrate learning