Personal Security Awareness
A course designed for individuals who are at increased risk due to their status or position within the community.
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Take an Active Role in Your Own Safety and Security
Personal Security Awareness is a 60-minute program available both virtually and in person.
This course is designed to equip participants with the essential principles of enhancing personal safety and security in their daily lives.
When heightened risk is present due to perceived status within the community, proactive measures become crucial.
Participants will learn how awareness, planning, and training play pivotal roles in reducing and mitigating personal risk. These skills are applicable across various situations, from everyday safety concerns to serious emergencies.
Personal Security Awareness empowers individuals to take control of their own security in public, in transit, at work, at home, and online.
This course is designed for individuals who are at increased risk due to their status or position within the community, such as board members, executives, clergy, public figures, politically active individuals, or other publicly visible individuals.
Topics Covered:
- Identifying factors that may put an individual at an elevated risk
- Identifying some of the elevated risks one may face
- Methods to detect, avoid, or mitigate one’s personal risk
Why was this course developed?
Over the last several years, we have seen increased levels of hate crimes, antisemitic incidents, and physical violence directed at the Jewish people, both around the world and in North America. Since October 2018, four deadly attacks have been carried out on the Jewish community in North America. In the same time frame, law enforcement has disrupted numerous plots aimed against Jewish organizations just in the United States.
While we cannot pick the time and date of the next incident that will impact our community, we can choose to prepare by investing time, effort, resources, and energy in sound safety and security strategies and practices to keep our families safe and our community secure. A critical component of these efforts relates to training. Simply put, training saves lives. Training and exercise provide critical skills while empowering our community and enhancing resiliency.
How was this course developed?
This presentation was designed by the Secure Community Network and is intended to be delivered by security professionals to civilians.
Personal Security Awareness is not a specific response plan for every risk you may face. This course was developed to address some safety and security topics and discuss how to begin to manage some risks that are prevalent in our society. It is an introduction and a template to help one become skilled at proactive risk reduction.