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Protect the people in your care
Equip your security team and staff with the situational awareness, threat recognition, and response skills needed to protect your congregation or organization. Training customized for your specific environment.
Training customized for your organization
Houses of worship and workplaces are not immune to violence. The events of recent years have made it clear that every organization needs a safety plan — and the training to execute it.
Blackthorn Defense Tactics provides practical, realistic safety training tailored to the needs of churches, businesses, and organizations of all sizes. Courses are customized to your specific environment, your team's existing skill level, and the scenarios most relevant to your setting.
Training covers everything from awareness and prevention to armed and unarmed response protocols, medical response, and coordination with law enforcement. Whether you're building a security team from the ground up or refreshing an existing program, this training delivers.
Course details
BDT–05- Who
- Security teams, staff, leadership
- Format
- On-site or range – customizable
- Group size
- Small to large groups
- Level
- All skill levels accommodated
- Location
- East Tennessee
- Contact
- 423-446-7233
What your team will learn
Awareness & response
- Situational awareness training — Recognizing pre-attack indicators and environmental threat cues before an incident begins.
- Threat recognition — Identifying behavior patterns that signal elevated risk and how to respond early.
- Run, Hide, Fight protocol — Understanding and applying the standard active threat response framework.
- Communication under stress — How to communicate with your team and law enforcement during an incident.
- Evacuation & shelter-in-place planning — Developing and rehearsing facility-specific response plans.
Defense & medical
- Armed response (for armed team members) — Defensive shooting skills appropriate to a complex, populated environment.
- Unarmed response — Improvised defense, distraction techniques, and last-resort physical options.
- Basic trauma care — Tourniquet application and wound packing to keep team members alive before EMS arrives.
- Law enforcement coordination — What to do when law enforcement arrives and how to avoid being misidentified as a threat.
- Post-incident response — Immediate steps after an active threat event – safety, documentation, and support.
Built for your organization
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Church security teams
Volunteer security team members, deacons and elders responsible for safety, ushers and greeters (awareness training), pastoral staff and leadership, and armed protection volunteers.
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Workplace & organization staff
Business owners and managers, HR and safety personnel, retail and service staff, healthcare workers, and schools and educational staff.
Church & workplace safety questions
Can training come to our location?
Yes. On-site training at your church or workplace is available and often preferred, as it allows scenario work that maps directly to your actual facility and floor plan.
Does our team need to be armed for this training?
No. Training is available for both armed and unarmed teams. Unarmed personnel still benefit enormously from awareness training, threat recognition, and basic trauma care skills.
How large can the group be?
Training is available for small teams through larger organizational groups. Contact us to discuss the optimal format for your group size and goals.
How often should our team train?
Annual refresher training is strongly recommended. Skills and protocols fade without reinforcement, and organizational changes mean new team members need to be trained to the same standard.
Train your team before you need them
Call today to discuss a customized safety training plan for your church or organization.
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