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NCIER is the National Center for Integrated Emergency Response, the training division of C3 Pathways. We deliver Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM) training, school safety courses, and emergency response exercises to first responders nationwide. With over 32,000 responders trained and 1,160 classes delivered, NCIER focuses on helping police, fire, EMS, and dispatch work together as one integrated team to stop threats faster and save lives. For specific questions about our organization or services, contact us at 407-490-1300 Monday–Friday 9am–5pm ET or visit the Contact Us page.
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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.
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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.
Podcast
Ep 69: 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...
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...
Podcast
Ep 123: Who's Running Your Perimeter?
...Today we've got a listener question from an officer in Canada who was asking about the perimeter group supervisor. And his question was basically, where is the best spot for the perimeter group...
Reviews
Course Reviews | NCIER
Read course evaluations from emergency responders who completed ASIM training. See what first responders say about our active shooter courses.
Podcast
Ep 72: 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.
Podcast
Ep 59: 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.
Podcast
Ep 55: Ep 55: Lost in Translation
This week we talk about avoiding the temptation to over-complicate terminology and creating unnecessary confusion. Keep it simple!
Podcast
Ep 48: 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...
Podcast
Ep 46: 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.
Podcast
Ep 43: 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...
Podcast
Ep 36: Ep 36: Intelligence
A discussion about the Intelligence function in Active Shooter Incident Management (hint: it's not just a law enforcement issue).
Podcast
Ep 31: Ep 31: Zones
This episode is about Zones in Active Shooter Response and how they help us communicate the threat picture.
Podcast
Ep 29: 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.
Podcast
Ep 26: 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!
Podcast
Ep 24: 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.
Podcast
Ep 131: What's New in SSAVEIM
...together in the same classroom. We're making some changes there. Tell me about 'em.
Kevin Nichols:
So the first thing we're doing is we're kind of giving it the same treatment that we gave...
Podcast
Ep 130: What's New in ASIM Advanced
...the big news because we made a lot of changes to ASIM Advanced. Let's talk about day one, Kevin. What all changed on day one of ASIM Advanced?
Kevin Nichols:
There's a lot of changes and...
Podcast
Ep 129: What's New in ASIM Basic
Bill Godfrey:
Now let's shift gears and talk about ASIM Basic. 'cause. Oh boy, we made a lot of changes to ASIM Basic.
Kevin Nichols:
We did not the least of which was we reduced that two and a half...
Podcast
Ep 128: What's New in ASIM QuickStart
Bill Godfrey:
So first up, let's talk about ASIM QuickStart, brand new course. We've never offered a course like this or built one like this. And it's free.
Kevin Nichols:
Absolutely 100% free. It's...
Podcast
Ep 126: Time to Call Your Emergency Manager
...get it, they come to our classes, they come to our training, they get excited about the program, and they try to run it on their own. And inevitably they run into a problem with buy-in from the...
Podcast
Ep 125: Who is Medical on a Rescue Task Force?
...you're keeping your ambulances on the road. And that's what we're here to talk about today.
Gentlemen, thanks for coming in. Let's frame this out a little bit. So EMS comes in all shapes and sizes...
Podcast
Ep 124: How Does Contact 2 Deploy?
...So we know that. However, there's still a lot of work to do. Kelly talked about it. There's still other things to do. We have to, number one, we have to start providing treatment. We have to...