CMC 101 - Communication Essentials: This course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to be an effective communicator. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will obtain a better understanding of communication. Participants will have the opportunity to improve your ability to communicate verbal and non-verbal messages and your ability to effectively listen. Format: Onsite

CMC 102 - Conflict Management: This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage conflict situations. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will be able to identify conflict and conflict behaviors, and understand how to prevent, de-escalate and resolve conflict. Format: Onsite

CMC 201 - Verbal Techniques for Aggression Management: This four-hour course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage verbal aggression. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will obtain a better understanding of aggression management. Participants will have the opportunity to improve your ability to acknowledge, understand, and de-escalate verbal aggression. This course is also available in a lecture only format. Format: Onsite

CMC 202 - Physical Control Techniques for Aggression Management: This course is only offered to persons working in the healthcare environment. This two-hour course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement physical control techniques to manage aggression in a safe manner. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will obtain a better understanding of aggression management. Participants will have the opportunity to improve your ability to acknowledge, understand, and de-escalate verbal aggression. Format: Onsite

CMC 301 - PPCT Defensive Tactics*: This 24-hour course is the first subject control system developed through tactical, legal, and medical research. Participants will learn a system that addresses the most common types of resistance officers encounter, and simple use of force continuum, which clarifies the appropriate force level for every level of resistance. Format: Onsite

CMC 301/i - PPCT - Defensive Tactics Instructor*: This 40-hour course is the first subject control system developed through tactical, legal, and medical research. Participants will learn to teach a system that addresses the most common types of resistance officers encounter, and simple use of force continuum, which clarifies the appropriate force level for every level of resistance. Medical research was conducted on every PPCT technique to refine technique efficiency and to ensure the medical implications were proportional to the level of resistance. Format: Onsite

CMC 302 - Ground Avoidance/Ground Escape (GAGE)*: The eight-hour course is designed to teach students how to avoid being taken to the ground and how to effectively escape if they do find themselves there. It reviews tactics for both open and narrow environments, reviews the four most common ground positions and escapes, and refines the student's physical technique. Format: Onsite

CMC 302/i - Ground Avoidance/Ground Escape (GAGE) Instructor*: This 24-hour course is designed to teach students how to train students in GAGE techniques. It reviews tactics for both open and narrow environments, reviews the four most common ground positions and escapes, refines the student's physical technique; and presents instructional methods for teaching survival skills. Format: Onsite

*Note: 300 Level courses are for security and law enforcement personnel only.

CMC 401 - Self Defense: CEMA offers customized self-defense programs to meet our customer’s needs. Contact CEMA@cema.biz to find out more information about our self-defense programs. Format: Onsite

CMC 501 - Behavior-Based Aggression Management Training: This customized training program that involves role-play scenarios provides participants the opportunity to implement knowledge and skills learned from other Conflict Management ContinuumSM programs. The program may be implemented to focus on low-level conflict, or verbal aggression, physical aggression. Our trained role players provide realistic simulation and immediate feedback to facilitate learning. Format: Onsite

HBDP 101 – CBRNE/WMD Awareness: This Awareness-Level Hospital Based Decontamination Program (HBDP) course consists lecture sessions, representing approximately four hours of instruction. The course provides participants with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to understand how to recognize and response to CBRNE/WMD incidents as an employee or associate of a hospital.

HBDP 201 – Basic Hospital Decontamination Operations: An eight-hour instructional program that provides basic information for hospital first receivers who participate as members of a hospital decontamination team. The program includes lecture and practical skills application.

HBDP 202 – Hospital Decon Setup: A four-hour instructional program that provides basic information for hospital first receivers who participate as members of a hospital’s decontamination setup team. The program includes lecture and practical skills application.

HBDP 301 – Hospital Decon Group Supervisor/Safety Officer: A sixteen-hour instructional program that provide participants with the knowledge and skills to oversee hospital decontamination operations as either the Decon Group Supervisor or Decon Safety Officer. The program includes lecture, practical skills application, and tabletop exercises.

HIMP 101 – Introduction to Hospital Preparedness: This Awareness-Level Hospital Incident Management Program (HIMP) course consists of five lecture sessions, representing approximately four hours of instruction. The course provides participants with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to understand their role as an employee or associate of a hospital in the context of disaster preparedness and response. This course is intended to provide foundational information as a building block for further Awareness-Level, and later Operations-Level, incident management training programs.

HIMP 102 – Introduction to Incident Management: This Awareness-Level Hospital Incident Management Program (HIMP) course consists of four lecture sessions, representing approximately four hours of instruction. The course provides participants with the foundational knowledge necessary to understand core incident management concepts, processes, and duties as Command or General Staff members of an incident management team. This course is intended to provide foundational information as a building block for Operations-Level incident management team training programs.

HIMP 201 – Incident Management Team Leadership: This Operations-Level Hospital Incident Management Program (HIMP) course consists of two modules, each with several components, representing approximately 20 hours of instruction. The course provides participants with intensive training on the technical skills necessary to function effectively as Command Staff or General Staff members of an incident management team. The course includes both didactic (lecture-based) and practical (small group exercise) activities to facilitate learning. This course is intended to supplement and expand on the pre-existing training of key incident management team members at the Awareness Level, and to that end assumes that students enrolled in this course already have at least a foundational understanding of incident management.

HIMP 202 – Action Planning Essentials: This Operations-Level Hospital Incident Management Program (HIMP) course consists of three modules, representing approximately four hours of instruction. The course provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to systematically take Initial Incident Actions and develop an Incident Action Plan based on the Planning “P” model of incident management, as Command or General Staff members of an incident management team. The course includes both didactic (lecture-based) and practical (small group exercise) activities to facilitate learning. This course is intended to supplement and expand on the pre-existing training of key incident management team members at the Awareness Level and IMT leadership Operations Level. The program assumes that participants enrolled in this course already have a solid understanding of incident management.

WV 100 – Recognizing and Preventing Workplace Violence: Recognizing and preventing workplace violence is every employee's responsibility. All employees must become mindful, not fearful, of "Behaviors of Concern" that lead to workplace violence and learn that everyone is a stakeholder in the safety and security of their workplace. This interactive workshop facilitated by a seasoned, law-enforcement professional will share the latest information from experience and respected sources about conditions and behaviors of concern, and offer tips and techniques to improve workplace plans for such events. A one-hour presentation.

WV 201 - Active Shooter Survival Techniques: Active violence (active shooter) incidents are unique in that the goal of the perpetrator(s) is to take as many lives as possible. Additionally, the perpetrator often has an expectation that they will die in the incident. For these reasons, incidents of active violence are different from other types of workplace violence and require planning and training that are unique as well. Even though the general probability of an active shooter in your workplace may be remote, the consequences are so potentially catastrophic that prudence requires we plan and train for such events. This lecture based, interactive workshop will share the latest information about active violence from professional, respected sources. We will discuss workplace planning and the personal mindset and tools that have been found to be most effective at maximizing your chances of surviving such an incident. A two-hour presentation.

WV 202 – Hostage Incident Survival Techniques: Hostage incidents have unique characteristics making them different from other types of workplace violence. In a hostage incident, the perpetrator typically intends to survive the incident and loses leverage if the hostage(s) die. These characteristics offer opportunities that require the planning and training for such incidents is unique as well. This interactive workshop conducted by a seasoned expert with decades of real-world experience will look at the conditions that might be a precursor to such events and then focus on the individual behaviors that have been shown to best increase chances of survival. Finally, we will discuss what to expect from the law enforcement response to a hostage incident. A two-hour presentation.