{"id":71849,"date":"2013-01-24T08:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=71849"},"modified":"2013-01-24T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T21:06:24","slug":"health-center-police-offer-active-threat-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/01\/health-center-police-offer-active-threat-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center Police Offer Active Threat Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, the UConn Health Center Police Department has been holding active threat training sessions in Keller Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Facilitated by Lt. Chris Casa and Officer Tom Ryba of the UConn Police Department, the sessions aim to help employees recognize the potential for violence and teach them realistic strategies to survive an active shooter incident.<\/p>\n<p>The program, developed by the Center for Personal Protection and Safety, includes a 20 minute instructional video designed to empower potential victims in a university or workplace environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to have a survival mindset \u2013 be mindful, not fearful,\u201d says Casa. \u201cWorkplace shootings are over in a matter of minutes, usually before police arrive on the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The training focuses on three main areas \u2013 how to get out, hide out, and take out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA trained person experiences less stress in these situations,\u201d says Ryba. \u201cThey can focus on strategies of escape and survival while others will panic and fall into surreal disbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final session will be offered on:<\/p>\n<p>When: Thursday, January 31, noon to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Where: Keller Auditorium, UConn Health Center, Farmington<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t attend, you can view a video of one of the sessions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediasite.uchc.edu\/mediasite41\/Play\/06756b5a748d456b8c96fdda717675681d\">http:\/\/mediasite.uchc.edu\/mediasite41\/Play\/06756b5a748d456b8c96fdda717675681d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on staying safe in the workplace and resolving conflict, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/employees.uchc.edu\/engagement\/conflict.html\">Know Better Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent tragedy in Newtown, the sessions aim to help employees survive an active shooter incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":71850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-71849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 17:56:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71852,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71849\/revisions\/71852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/71850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71849"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=71849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=71849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}