We provide state and federally recognized training programs that help organizations create safer spaces while also lowering increasing liability risks.  We provide training programs that are compliant with recognized national standards, approved by state and professional associations, and that are taught by subject matter experts from the FBI and DoD.  Our trainers have decades of experience training in diverse environments including over 50 schools, 20 police departments, federal agencies, and internationally. 

 

We provide your organization with training in the 3 core areas of organizational safety: Prevention, Response, and Recovery.  We deliver these training programs to you through in-person sessions at your facility and on your schedule to save your organization time and travel costs.  We can also help you identify what programs might work best to accomplish your organizational goals and set a training agenda.  We deliver training as stand alone courses or as part of a comprehensive violence prevention program. 

 

We Are Honored To Share Feedback From Our Partners:

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" The training provided by Mark and The Pohl Group has been the best training the district has had pertaining to safety preparedness.  Instead of feeling helpless, staff members now feel empowered.  I would recommend all schools consider inviting The Pohl Group to provide the training.  His team's vast experience and scenario-based training provides another layer of preparedness." 

~John Stephens, Superintendent, Arcanum-Butler Local Schools

                                                                   

" The training provided by The Pohl Group to Vandalia-Butler was extremely impressive. Their team’s government-level knowledge was clear in their presentation and evidenced by their varying experiences.  During their time at Vandalia-Butler, Mark and Ken delivered to a mixed audience of counselors, principals, safety and security officers, special education supervisors, and district directors. They did a fantastic job of pointing out the significance of each person’s role in any potentially dangerous situation that may pose any level of danger to a student, group of students, or building.  Our principals are anxious to have them return to conduct similar trainings at the building level for their staff.

~Lisa Hildebrand, Director of Pupil Personnel, Vandalia-Butler City Schools

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" The Program was outstanding!  With 30 years of law enforcement experience, it was one of the most useful courses that I have taken."

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" The Best Training I Have Had Since the Academy. "

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Disrupting Pathways to Violence™, Threat Assessment Team Training

We are an approved Ohio School Safety Center (OSSC) Threat Assessment Training Provider that helps your school or organization implement and train behavioral threat assessment teams.  Our experts have conducted hundreds of threat assessments for the FBI and have hands on practical experience in helping organizations train and implement effective threat assessment programs that work. This training program helps you prevent violence before it occurs by knowing the signs and indicators that are highly correlated to violent acts. We will help you pick up on indicators such as concerning behaviors, communications, and life stressors and develop proactive intervention strategies to disrupts lifestyle pathways that often lead to violence.  It every active shooter event, the perpetrator displayed signs of concerning disfunction that precipitated the attack.  Threat assessment teams that know the indicators and who are trained to evaluate and intervene provide your organization with a tangible and effective method of preventing violence in before in happens.   

 

Our experts from the FBI have decades of experience and have conducted hundreds of threat assessments that helped keep our communities and businesses safe. The training you will receive is based upon the most recent information available from the FBI Behavioral Threat Assessment Center (BTAC) and U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC).  We teach you how threat assessments work and provide you with time to conduct simulated threat assessments during tabletop exercises so your team can practice conducting before having to conduct a live assessment. Our experts work collaboratively with all stakeholders including security teams, safety managers, mental health professionals and leadership. We can help you disrupt persons who may be on a pathway to violence and get help for those who need it. Some important benefits include:

 

* We bring training directly to your organization, saving valuable time for your staff

* Program implementation and support - we provide you with direct access to our experts    

* We provide a free district or workgroup wide workshops to include everyone in the process 

* State grant money may be available to help you pay for the cost of this training (inquire for details)  

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Resiliency, Wellness and Self-Care Training

We provide your organization with federally recognized wellness and self-help strategies that reduce workplace and personal stress and improve employee retention, morale, and resiliency. We also help your organization implement peer-support and EAP programming that helps employees through highly stressful periods and guides employees how and where to get additional help and services.  

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De-Escalation Training

Helps you de-escalate potentially dangerous situations through active listening.  We can help you deal with people who have become emotional or angry in the workplace, especially related to disciplinary or termination meetings. We also help you understand how to deal with persons in crisis by teaching you to interpret communications and proven methods of response that creates behavioral change and safer outcomes. We provide instructors from the FBI who served as crisis negotiators and who have successfully used this de-escalation model in the field for decades.

 

SURVIVE ™ Active Shooter Response & Emergency Medical Aid (TacMed) Training

 

Active Shooter Response Training

Dramatically improves workplace safety by teaching your employees and safety teams how to properly respond to emergency situations and reduces injuries, deaths, and risks associated with corporate liability. We provide federally recognized Department of Homeland Security (DHS) response procedures, taught by subject matter experts and certified instructors from the FBI and DoD.  SURVIVE training inspires the confidence to act and reduces hesitancy through education and training. 

 

Emergency Medical Aid for Victims of Trauma (TacMed) Training 

Provides your organization with the capability to utilize a U.S. Military developed medical program to treat the 3 primary causes of death from traumatic injuries in the workplace, until help arrives. The U.S. Military developed this program to address a specific problem: deaths that were occurring from serious but treatable injuries. This program helps your organization reduce deaths from serious workplace injuries and active shooter attacks through the the knowledge an equipment needed to provide immediate interim medical intervention. This program improves survival rates by bridging the critical gap in time between injury and treatment by medical professionals. We teach you not only HOW to administer aid but also WHEN within the context of an active emergency.  Whether used during an active shooter incident or serious workplace injury, this life-saving program improves survival rates by 50% (NASEM 2016) by addressing the 3 primary causes of death from traumatic injuries (not just bleeding), until help arrives.  

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High-Performance Police Training  

Policing has become a difficult profession for many of our nation's heroes. We provide you with U.S. Military developed and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trained instruction so that you can be certain you are receiving the best training available.  Our Police training programs are evidence-based and delivered by federally trained instructors with decades of real world experience and extensive training backgrounds training U.S. Military, international law enforcement, federal law enforcement agencies, local police, university police, teachers, and community organizations. We help you improve the skills and capabilities of your officers and improves their physical, mental, and emotional health through training programs designed specifically for them.