Safe Havens International Inc.
An IRS Approved Non-profit School Safety Center

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Why Safe Havens is different from any other school safety organization in the world

As the world’s leading international non profit campus safety center, the Safe Havens approach is dramatically different from that of for profit school safety consulting firms.  Safe Havens analysts are passionate advocates for children, educators and schools who view improvements in school safety, security and emergency preparedness as powerful tools for school improvement.  Safe Havens is known for our focus on helping improve test scores by improving school climate, increasing time on task, reducing suspensions and expulsions, lost work time by employees and employee turnover.  

Our dedicated team of international experts and published school safety book authors offer experience and a level of credentialed unequalled by any for profit school safety consulting firm in the world.

• Our analysts have published more books on school safety, worked in more countries, authored more school safety web courses and produced more school safety training videos than any ten for profit school safety firms in the world – combined.
• Our analysts are carefully selected because they are among the world’s top experts in their respective fields of expertise.  Our experts have easily verifiable, tangible and relevant credentials that will stand up in court if the need were ever to arise.
• Our analysts have more global experience than any other school safety firm.  With work experience in two dozen countries, our analysts are well versed on the latest global as well as national trends in school safety.  What they have learned working in Asia, , Central America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Canada, and of course around the United States, can help make schools safer anywhere in the world. 
• Our analysts never work out of field.  Safe Havens analysts only work in fields where they have readily demonstrable credentials.  For example, all of our full time analysts have formal and demonstrable work experience and formal training in the field of emergency management which is are prerequisite qualifications for school crisis planning work.  Between them, our analysts have significant full - time work experience and advanced training in all four phases of school crisis planning. 
• Our analysts focus on the creation of sustainable programs for our clients through an emphasis on creating internal safety and emergency management expertise in our client’s organization.  We do not attempt to create long term dependency by pushing our clients for multi-year contracts for services.
• We do not switch analysts after winning bids.  Though some consulting firms routinely switch consultants after winning a bid due to high turnover, we have never does this on a consulting project.  Every full time analyst working for Safe Havens has been with us since our inception.  With zero turnover in full - time analysts since 2000, we have been able to maintain a level of service delivery unmatched by for profit firms.  Unlike some for profit consulting firms, we do not list experts in our bids that no longer work for our organization.
• The primary motivation of our analysts and our organization is not revenue generation.  As much of the revenue generated by our analysts does not go to them personally, our analysts do not push services on clients and do not attempt to create long term dependency for our clients.
• For this reason, we regularly suggest that our clients utilize free local, state and federal school safety resources instead of paying us for services that can be obtained without cost or at a reduced cost.  Because our primary motivation as an organization is not profit generation, our references will attest that we routinely steer our clients to free resources.
• We are the only firm in the world with analysts who have full time government school safety center experience as well as full - time government homeland security experience.  With two analysts with this type of background, Safe Havens has extensive actual school specific antiterrorism experience.  In addition, we publish the standard work in the field Innocent Targets – When Terrorism Comes to School the only book on the topic in standard and widespread usage by major universities and homeland security, law enforcement, emergency management and military personnel in the U.S., Canada, Asia, Germany, the U.K. and Israel.

Our analysts work tirelessly and in close collaboration with our clients to develop practical and effective safety, security and emergency preparedness solutions designed to create lasting and positive change.  Our approach is to foster a team approach to safety, security and emergency preparedness by helping client organizations develop a positive culture in these areas.  Our analysts also emphasize a community based approach incorporating the skills, knowledge and abilities of local public safety and community partners as well as human resources within the client’s organization.

Every analyst who works for Safe Havens International has a passion for their work and has spent the bulk of their professional work experience in full time employment directly related to the types of work with our center.  Our passion for school safety, our extensive formal backgrounds in the fields of school safety, school crisis planning, school security, public health, anti-terrorism and school crisis response and recovery is unmatched by any for profit school safety consulting firm in the world.  If you closely compare credentials, you will see why Safe Havens is the most experienced school safety team in the world.

...Because People are Precious

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