This intensive program is designed to be immersive and cover as much ground as possible over a ten-month period. The goal is to provide an introduction to foundational community safety and security practices. Through this work, your organization can gain the ability to assess and address its unique security requirements from the perspective of highly experienced community safety personnel. You will have everything you need to develop your own security culture and to set clear expectations for all roles within your organization, especially for those dedicated to keeping it secure from both internal and external risks.
Our most in-depth and rigorous collaborative learning initiative.
Amidst the groundswell of liberatory movement activity in the summer of 2020, Vision Change Win received over one hundred urgent security and safety training requests from national networks and foundations. To fully support as many organizations in need as possible, we developed our National Community Safety & Security School.
Throughout this course, you will engage with VCW safety security practitioners alongside your cohort in a dynamic learning environment. Together, we will broaden our knowledge of the history and legacy of security and safety work and the culture of movement spaces. Our holistic and immersive approach means that you get experience in hands-on practice with verbal de-escalation and generative conflict techniques. Practicing confidentiality and giving and receiving grounded feedback is an essential course component.
In this course, we come together as collaborators in the work of advancing collective liberation by way of building community safety and security. You bring your lived experience to the conversation, your expertise, and your perspective. Robust participation makes this program a dynamic and embodied experience–so come with it! You give your cohort your time, trust, and active engagement , and in exchange, you leave as part of an ever-expanding justice movement committed to dismantling systems built on insecurity, harm, and disconnection.
When you dedicate your time and energy to this course, collaborating with your cohort, defining and refining your organization’s security culture, you emerge prepared to apply these concrete learnings where they make a lasting impact— in organizational and movement spaces and personal and professional relationships.
In addition to these outcomes, fellowship participants will:
All graduates of the Community Safety and Security School will have access to:
Online and 3-day in-person training intensive
March 2026 to July 2026
9 hours/week, live + online, over 50 hours of training.
Please inquire. Solidarity scholarships and sliding scale rates are available.
Fellowship
*Prerequisite: Completion of the beginner cohort
Online and 3-day in-person training intensive
November 2025 to February 2026
First week of the month, 12 hours/week, live + online
Please inquire.
March: Tues, 3/3* | Wed, 3/4 | Thurs, 3/5
April: Tues, 3/31 | Wed, 4/1 | Thurs, 4/2
May: Tues, 5/5 | Wed, 5/6 | Thurs, 5/7
June: Fri, 6/5 | Sat, 6/6 | Sun 6/7**
July: Tues, 7/7 | Wed, 7/8 | Thurs, 7/9*
Trainings are each three hours long (4 – 7 pm EST).
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Reach out to [email protected] for more information.
