Workshops for Warriors

 If you are serious about serving veterans and making sure that they're safe in any environment, there is no question your staff need training. Even the veterans, because my instructors are veterans and they needed this training. It doesn't matter if you think, you don't know, you don't know what you don't know.

I think that if you're going to have employees in your company and be employee veteran friendly, and not just be lip service, but real, authentic, and integrated into our company culture, then you need this training. I definitely would recommend Secure Measures.

- Rachel Luis y Prado, Chief Operating Officer

Rising Communities

Our team does lots of community field work, so we wanted to make sure that they had the tools to be able to be in the field safely, protect themselves and, really be able to engage, but also really be aware of their surroundings.  Ever since going through the trainings, our team has been able to apply more of the strategies and tools from the trainings actively into their work. We know that they're going out there and they're being safer.

They now have tools and techniques on situational awareness. They have knowledge on mental health and deescalation. So, we know that they have a good toolkit to build on and utilize in different scenarios that they may experience. And now moving forward, we hope to compliment that training and further build that and build their skillset as well. I've definitely noticed an overall change in confidence from the teams.

- Judith Chavez, Officer of Learning & Advancement

Jamboree Housing - NorCal

We had great reviews of the training that was run down in our Southern California locations and we wanted to make sure we were able to run the training up here in Northern California. Deescalation is something that comes up in our work every single day.

In residential work because we're working with at-risk populations and folks that have experienced a lot of trauma it's important that we're making sure that we give our staff the right tools that they know how to and that they can use to help diffuse situations. Hopefully, deescalate their own situations as they come up and, make choices that are going be beneficial, not just to the properties and the programming, but also to residents themselves. To me, I feel that everything was covered from A to Z because scenarios that I heard and I saw, it's real-life stuff that we go through every day. So, it was great!

- Noel Kammermann, Senior Director

- Bobbi Hightower, Property Manager

Vet Phoenix

Dave came in and he so valuable is not only was he former law enforcement, he has a master's in psych, but he also understood that you could see the best in people of where they are now, not where they are before. And that's the right person that we
needed for a training.

That's the fundamental difference, is that not only does he teach you the curriculum, but he shows you. What change looks like especially for people serving veterans. Man, I get emotional thinking about that because Dave was the first one that put me on the spot. But I saw the power of community through, through the work that he does. One of the greatest skill sets that Dave has is he's willing to listen and he applies feedback perfectly, and he doesn't take it personal.

He understands that he is delivering a tailored service to whatever organization. We knew that what we had to do for Los Angeles County was very difficult. We had to convince people to believe in those that are broken, formally incarcerated, had felony convictions and were the lost and forgotten of our communities.

And we knew it wasn't going to be easy, but the approach that he took, like I'm still blown away. He saw the value in my lived experience, so he started incorporating other veterans with similar backgrounds like mine to actually be his employees and be as speakers and be his trainers. I think that when you're teaching somebody a concept, when you're able to see it in person, live in action, you're able to hear somebody's story, that goes beyond traditional training.

Manny Gomez - Executive Director