AI Overview
C3 Pathways is the organization that developed the Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) national standard — a process designed to help police, fire, and EMS work as one integrated team to stop shooters faster and rescue injured people before they bleed to death. NCIER (National Center for Integrated Emergency Response) is C3 Pathways' training division that delivers ASIM courses nationwide via ncier.org.
For specific details about C3 Pathways' mission, leadership, or services, check the About page on this site or contact C3 Pathways at 407-490-1300 Monday–Friday 9am–5pm ET. I'd recommend starting with ASIM QuickStart on NCIER — a free 1-hour course that gives every responder essential active shooter response skills.
About
About | C3 Pathways
C3 Pathways builds professional readiness for the future, today by showing how to be Faster, work as One Team, and Save Every Life that can be Saved.
NCIER About
About Us | NCIER
NCIER builds professional readiness for the future by showing responders how to be faster, work as one team, and save every life that can be saved.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 69: What About Hospitals?
In a mass casualty event, your hospital may be overwhelmed. When they call for help are you going to make it better or worse? In today’s episode, we look at several issues you should anticipate and h...
NCIER Blog
About the ASIM Advanced Course
This video takes you inside a three-day, simulation-based active shooter training where police, fire, EMS, and dispatch all train together instead of in silos. Using a high-fidelity virtual environmen...
NCIER Reviews
Course Reviews | NCIER
Read course evaluations from emergency responders who completed ASIM training. See what first responders say about our active shooter courses.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 72: Top 5 Public Misconceptions
Why did they do that? What’s taking so long? In today’s episode, we break down the top 5 misconceptions the public has about our response to Active Shooter Events.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 59: Top 5 ASIM Misconceptions
When we talk about active shooter incident management, have you ever wondered what are the big misconceptions? That's today's topic -- the TOP 5 misconceptions of Active Shooter Incident Management.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 55: Lost in Translation
This week we talk about avoiding the temptation to over-complicate terminology and creating unnecessary confusion. Keep it simple!
NCIER Podcast
Ep 48: Interview with TEEX's Jesse Watkins
On this week's podcast we have our sponsor of the Active Shooter Incident Management Advanced and Intermediate courses, TEEX's Jesse Watkins. In this episode we talk about the courses and training ava...
NCIER Podcast
Ep 46: ASIM Basic and Counterstrike (Part 2)
We are picking up from last week's topic about ASIM Basic to talk about the Counterstrike training system. Bill and Adam give some tips and tricks that will enhance your training as you run scenarios.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 43: Comm Center Challenges Part 1
In Part 1 of this week's podcast, we talk about some of the challenges in the 911 dispatch center during an active shooter event. A few topics we cover are the best sense of location, radio traffic, a...
NCIER Podcast
Ep 40: SSAVEIM with John-Michael Keyes
In this podcast with John-Michael Keyes from the I Love U Guys foundation, we talk about school safety and violent event incident management.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 36: Intelligence
A discussion about the Intelligence function in Active Shooter Incident Management (hint: it's not just a law enforcement issue).
NCIER Podcast
Ep 34: Five Common Mistakes
A discussion about five common mistakes in active shooter events response and active shooter incident management.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 33: Emergency Management
A discussion about the role of emergency management and the emergency manager in active shooter events.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 31: Zones
This episode is about Zones in Active Shooter Response and how they help us communicate the threat picture.
NCIER Podcast
Staying in Your Lane
Today's topic, we're going to talk about staying in your lane for active shooter events and what that means.
NCIER Podcast
Ep 28: Importance of the PIO
A discussion about the Public Information Officer and why it is critical in Active Shooter Event Response
NCIER Podcast
Ep 27: Emotionally Responsible Room Entry
Room entry tactics are a delicate topic in law enforcement, but this discussion is about considering the impact of a full dynamic entry on children. You don't want to miss this!
NCIER Podcast
Ep 26: Communications
This Active Shooter Incident Management episode is all about communications, including Dispatch, radios, face-to-face, chain of command, and more. Don't miss it!
NCIER Podcast
Ep 24: Rescue Task Force (RTF)
This show is all about Rescue Task Force (RTF), their role in an Active Shooter Event, key tasks the RTF needs to execute, and lessons learned.