Active Shooter Response Training in Minnesota
Buy Time to Stay Alive - AVIRT
Save Yourself, Save Others
A practical 2.5 hour class combining active shooter and knife attack survival strategies with immediate trauma care. Learn the defensive and offensive skills needed to protect yourself or keep the people you love safe when you're not there.
Seconds count when crisis strikes your actions in those initial minutes determine survival rates. Our dual-certification CPR and AVIRT course combines lifesaving medical training with tactical strategies. Crucially, we bridge these disciplines trauma training, teaching bleeding control using professional tourniquets. Using federally recognized Run, Hide, Fight protocol. You will learn to create escape routes, barricade doors, and counter threats as a last resort. Ment for you and those you love, when you can’t be there.
Frequently ask questions
Q: Do I need to be in great physical shape for this?
A: No. This class focuses on mental clarity, environmental control, and simple movements. It is designed for everyday citizens of all physical capabilities.
Q: Are there live weapons used in the class?
A: No, live firearms or ammunition are ever brought into the classroom. We use inert, non-lethal training replicas to practice physical skills safely.
Q: Can I bring my teenage children?
A: Yes. The situational awareness skills taught in AVIRT are highly valuable for high school and college students. (Specify age limits, e.g., ages 14+).
Q: How long is this class and what does it cost?
A: This comprehensive class is about 7 hours to complete both sections for $70.00
Upcoming Class Dates -
Upcoming Class Dates: @ Holiday Inn Express 7740 Flying Cloud Drive Eden Prairie, MN 55344
July 13, 2026 9:00 AM & 4:45 PM
July 27, 2026 2:00 PM & 4:45 PM
Upcoming Class Dates: @ 7204 West 27 Street, St Louis Park, MN 55426
Weekly classes begin July 8
what will you learn -
Early Warning Signs of a Potential Active Violence Event
Escape, Evade, and Attack techniques, and how to quickly select which one(s) to use
Situational Awareness: learn to identify places of escape and invasion with confidence.
Emergency Bleeding Control Techniques are important and potentially life-saving skills since one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the U.S. is uncontrolled bleeding.
Respond quickly and confidently in an emergency
Recognizing Warning Signs of potential violence
Situational Awareness and threat assessment
Emergency Bleeding Control techniques
Wound Packing and hands-on trauma care
Tourniquet Application using real-world tools
Equipping Your Space for faster response
Escape and Evade tactics during active violence
Defend and Attack strategies when escape is not possible
Live Scenario Exercises to build confidence and decision-making under pressure
class formats -
Ways to Learn:
Online Only Active Shooter Class Only
AVIRT course from home or office at your own pace. Gives you the concepts of situational awareness, real world numbers, and video of how to interact with shooters. No skills practice to help reinforce concepts and build muscle memory there can be key to surviving an incident. BUY NOW
Instructor Lead Active Shooter Class
Learn the concepts with a certified instructor there to answer your questions and provide the necessary information to Escape, Evade, or Attack. Along with that and you'll get hands-on skills practice where you'll build a muscle memory, as well as learn the skills to perform emergency medical procedures like tourniquet application, wound packing, and first aid, diagnostics necessary to determine extent of injuries. Similar to other forms of emergency training you get not only the chance to interact with the instructor but others in the class and build a muscle memory that has been proven highly effective if real emergencies strike just like those taught in CPR. BOOK NOW
if a group wants an onsite class what do we need for class
There is a combination CPR and her class that won't be coming in the future. If you're interested please fill out information in the contact me form and I'll be happy to provide more details for those of you that need to meet general OSHA safety backgrounds, showing proof of additional training. This is a perfect combination that provides both on sign CPRAED and first aid training but also workplace safety regarding active violence situations..
Group Class space must have desk/table for every person in the class.
A screen, Projector, or TV with HDMI ports to plug presentation materals
Bathrooms
(signage will be posted outside the classroom to alert others that the sound of simulated gunfire, simulated weapons use maybe heard or in view).
Weapons Policy Notice:
It is the policy of HSI and this instructor that absolutely no weapons can be brought into the training classroom. Weapons include (but is not limited to) firearms with license or permit and those carried by US military personnel, law-enforcement, including federal officers is not allowed in the classroom. Pocket knives, mace or mace guns, tasers, bright lights or sound equipment as well no not allowed. These items must be stored outside of the classroom in a secure location, like a vehicle or not brought with you at all. If any of these objects are found on you or in your possessions during a class, you will be asked to leave immediately. You will not receive credit for the class nor a refund. This is for the safety of all those who are participating in the class as you will be interacting with each other at a physical level and objects in the room will be moved at the discretion of the instructor or students at any time. This is simply a mandatory safety precaution.
Final Notice
By signing up for a group or as an individual you acknowledge that the reaction to, possession of, and/or use of fake training weapons could be potentially dangerous, and involves risk of serious personal injury, death, psychological trauma, and/or other personal and financial liability. You agree to assume all risk and waives any and all claims of liability for personal injury, death, psychological trauma, and/or other personal or financial loss. All persons attending any training suspected to be under the influence of any controlled substance, up to and including, but not limited to Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine or the abuse of prescription drugs will not be able to attend training and will waive any rights to a refund. By agreeing to these terms, you are acknowledging that you and all attendees in your party will adhere to these terms.
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When active violence occurs, you are the first responder. AVIRT Active Violence Immediate Response Training by HSI (Health & Safety Institute) and meets FEMA/CISA guidelines.