The Yale Public Safety (YPS) Learning and Development Unit offers and organizes a variety of courses for the Yale community free of charge. Our goal is to empower students, faculty, and staff with critical thinking and problem-solving skills to respond to challenging situations and potential emergencies they may encounter in their daily lives.
Yale departments and community members interested in one of the training courses below, can click on the link to request enrollment into a digital, self-directed course. For an in-person, customized session for your group, please send a detailed request by email to learning@yale.edu.
- Active Assailant Training: This course follows the “Run, Hide, Fight” model when confronted with an active shooter or aggressive person.
- De-escalation: This course provides the learner with tips and tools to help de-escalate an agitated person.
- Stop the Bleed: The course, designed through a partnership with the Department of Defense and the American College of Surgeons, teaches the techniques to slow and stop traumatic bleeding with the use of pressure, bandaging and the application of tourniquets (This training requires an in-person practical skills session. It can be scheduled by emailing learning@yale.edu.).
- CPR/AED/First Aid: These hands-on courses provide participants with potentially life-saving techniques. The YPS Learning and Development Unit can tailor this course to the requester’s needs. Email learning@yale.edu to book a course. (There is a fee if American Red Cross or American Heart Association certification cards are required.)