The Better Way to Keep Our Children Safe

8455 East Golf Links Road,Tucson AZ 85710

30 June, 2022

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The Better Way to Keep Our Children SafeEveryone should care about the safety in our community.The teachers, faculty, and students are the first responders in an emergency situation. They must be properly trained and equipped to save lives. Join us for an honest discussion with experts and those who have first-hand knowledge and experience in these areas.THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2022Faith Community Church East8455 E Golf Links Rd. Tucson, AZ 857106:00 PM - REGISTRATION 6:30 PM - PROGRAM BEGINS 8:30 PM - PROGRAM ENDS MARK ZALINSKAS: From PA to AZ - Protecting the Lives We Value Most FASTER Saves Lives Liaison (Faculty & Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response) AZCDL (Arizona Citizens Defense League) Foundation Board Member HS School Mathematics Teacher/Football Coach Mark has been an advocate on behalf of students, teachers and school staff since 1999. He has over 30 years of experience teaching mathematics and coaching football in a public school setting. He is here tonight to share his experience and ideas on how we can best protect our students from those who would enter our schools with the sole purpose of killing them. Mark has been associated with FASTER and has been promoting the program ever since its inception in 2013. He strongly believes that the concept behind FASTER is the most important component to any school safety plan. FASTER Saves Lives empowers teachers and school staff with the training to develop the skills to use the proper equipment to stop a killer, call for help, manage the scene and keep the injured alive until the police and EMS arrive on the scene. He speaks from a teacher's point of view on how he has met and dealt with resistance from school administrators, school boards, politicians and the media. He will share ideas about what we all can do to protect the lives we value most. GEORGE HUPP: Why Kids Aren't Afraid of Fire Firearms / Defensive Tactics / Use of Force / Emergency Medicine instructor Why Kids Aren't Afraid of Fire George Hupp is a retired federal special agent and has been teaching civilians, military, and law enforcement personnel to defend themselves since the early 1980s. Shortly after Columbine, as the Senior Firearms Instructor for the Tucson INS, he ensured his special agents linked up as plainclothes responders with Pima County deputies in their first "Extraordinary Deployment" (active shooter) exercises. He trained again on Active Killer response as a member of the Davis Monthan AFB Emergency Services Team, and as an HSI agent. He learned about the horrific incidents at Ft Hood, San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Gabriel Giffords assasination attempt, the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, and others, directly from responding officers, medics, and investigators who were there. George began his civilian law enforcement career in the early 1990s as a sworn peace officer in Wyoming. George was selected as a federal criminal investigator in 1999. He served in that capacity for nearly two decades, interspersed with occasional military call ups as a reservist. His last assignment was as a taskforce officer on an FBI Joint Terrorism Taskforce (JTTF). George's JTTF squad primarily investigated Domestic Terrorism, of which "active shooters" are a subset. George was a certified Federal Law Enforcement Firearms, Defensive Tactics, and Use of Force instructor. He's a graduate of the FLETC Firearms Instructor Training Program, the Suarez International Combat Pistol Instructor course, Arizona POST Patrol Rifle Instructor school, NRA instructor courses for Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, and Submachine Gun, a Gunsite Instructor class, and an IALEFI (International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors) Master Instructor development program. George has been an EMT since 1992. He is a NAEMT certified Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) instructor, and served as a law enforcement tactical medic on warrant service teams for over ten years. George has taught American College of Surgeons Bleeding Control from Washington state to Florida. Since his retirement in 2017, George has continued to train civilians and public safety personnel in Active Killer response. He has participated as a trainer in numerous Active Shooter workshops for educators put on by SROs of Pima County. He is a certified I-LIVED (Active Killer for civilians) instructor for ICSAVE (Integrated Community Solutions to Active Violence Events). George has taught I-LIVED in conjunction with the Arizona Church Security Network (AZ CSN), and has presented at the AZ CSN Defending the Flock Conference. George has taught TECC, TCCC, Public Safety Integration, and Rescue Taskforce (forming teams of EMS and LE to go into the warm zones of active killer events to begin triage and treatment of the wounded) to numerous agencies throughout Arizona, including Yavapai County SWAT. George has taught Church Security Teams from Phoenix to South Carolina. George teaches pro bono Violence Avoidance and Survival (VAS) courses under the auspices of his small firearms training and consulting firm, Heloderm LLC. DR. CYNTHIA DOWDALL, PHD: No One is Addressing Hollyweird Neurobehavioral Therapist AIMWellness at NorthStar Neurology Director, Medical Reserve Corps of Southern Arizona Interagency Team Dr. Dowdall is retired from the fire service where she was the Director of Behavioral Health and Community Services. She currently is working in an integrated team including a neurologist and Ph.D. neuropharmacologist serving first responders, veterans, and civilians who are suffering from brain injury, PTSD, and toxic exposure. Dr. Dowdall was part of the healing effort following the Gabriel Giffords assasination attempt. JOHN CAMPBELL : Growing in the 2nd Amendment Faith Community Church East Security THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!