Training: Safe Schools & Healthy Students

Iowa Region 1 Homeland Security Board presents Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman with Safe Schools and Healthy Students

About the Speaker: Dave Grossman, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.) is one of the world's foremost experts and speakers on the psychology of conflict. Colonel Grossman is a former West Point Psychology Professor, Army Ranger and a Pulitzer nominated author. Grossman's works include: On Killing (Pulitzer nominated), Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill, and On Combat. Colonel Grossman has written numerous encyclopedia entries as well as an entry in the Oxford Companion to American Military History. Colonel Grossman has presented papers to the AMA, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association. Colonel Grossman co-authored an entry on actives shooter terrorism response in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Colonel Grossman and his research have been cited by the President in a national address and he was called as an expert witness and consultant in the Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bombing case and the Paducah school shooting case. Colonel Grossman has testified before the U.S. Senate and House committees along with eight different state legislatures. Colonel Grossman is an airborne Ranger infantry officer and a prior service sergeant and paratrooper with over 23 years of experience in  leading U.S. soldiers worldwide. Colonel Grossman retired from the Army in February 1998 and has devoted himself to teaching, writing, speaking and research. Today, Colonel Grossman is the director of the Killology Research Group and in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is on the road almost 300 days a year training elite military and law enforcement organizations worldwide about the reality of combat. For more information visit: www.killology.com. Colonel Grossman will be available to sign and sell copies of his books. Checks and Cash only will be accepted.

Targeted Audience:

• Emergency Response
• School Administrators
• Teachers
• Law enforcement
• Fire
• Public health/hospitals
• Emergency Management

Registration: There is no cost to attend the training, lunch will be provided but registration is required no later than May 18, 2011.

To register send the registration information to:

Fax: 515.382.7221 OR

Email: mmanion@storycounty.com OR

Mail: Attn: Liz Manion, Story County Admin., 900 6th St. Nevada, IA 50201

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Contact person:

Liz Manion at mmanion@storycounty.com or 515.382.7229