Safe Havens International

What Safe Havens International does

Safe Havens International is a U.S.-based non-profit campus safety organization founded approximately in 1986 and headquartered in Macon, Georgia. The organization provides fee-for-service consulting, training, and expert witness services to K-12 schools, school districts, and state departments of education across the United States and internationally. Core offerings include comprehensive school safety, security, climate, culture, and emergency preparedness assessments, evidence-based training programs, conference and workshop presentations, training video production, and expert witness services for litigation involving school safety incidents. The organization also generates ancillary revenue through a webstore selling training DVDs and planning templates.

Name

Safe Havens International

Legal name

Safe Havens International

Website

https://safehavensinternational.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Safe Havens International is a U.S.-based non-profit consultancy that delivers school safety assessments, evidence-based training, consulting, and expert witness services to K-12 schools, districts, and state education agencies across 11 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

School Safety Consulting

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

School Safety, Security & Emergency Preparedness (EDAJAIAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Safety Compliance, Audits & Risk Assessments (Security Assessments, CPTED) (EDAEACAN), Crisis Response & Threat Assessment (Suicide Prevention, Violence Prevention) (EDAJAIAH), Education in Emergencies (EiE) & Safe Schools (BPADAKAJ)

Keywords

• School safety consulting
• Campus security assessments
• Emergency preparedness training
• K-12 safety services
• Crisis response consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Macon

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. School Safety Assessment Services: Fee-for-service engagements providing comprehensive school safety, security, climate, culture, and emergency preparedness assessments for individual schools and school districts. Assessments are billed per project, with large districts generating multi-project contracts.
2. Training and Consulting Services: Direct fee engagements for staff training sessions, school safety consulting, and conference/worship keynote presentations. Revenue generated through hourly or per-engagement fees for training delivery and consulting.
3. Training Video Production: Custom training video production services for schools and districts, including student supervision videos, safety training content, and emergency preparedness materials.
4. Expert Witness Services: Fee-based expert witness services for court cases involving school safety, security incidents, and campus safety litigation. Described as a significant ongoing work stream.
5. Webstore Product Sales: Sale of physical and digital products through the Safe Havens International webstore, including training DVDs (e.g., 'The First 30 Seconds' crisis scenarios DVD) and planning templates.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Safe Havens International provides comprehensive school safety, security, climate, culture, and emergency preparedness assessments, evidence-based training programs, expert consulting, conference keynote presentations, and expert witness services to K-12 schools and school districts. The organization also produces custom training videos and sells training DVDs and planning templates through its webstore, applying proprietary methodologies such as the Dorn Drill process and CPTED principles.

Product overview

Safe Havens International operates as a non-profit campus safety organization offering a comprehensive suite of services centered around school safety, security, climate, culture, and emergency preparedness. The core offerings include school safety assessments, consulting services, training programs, conference presentations, training video production, and expert witness services. The organization also provides digital resources including web courses, planning templates, newsletters, eBooks, and video resources such as student supervision videos and the Staying Alive video series. Services are delivered through evidence-based approaches and focus on helping schools integrate technology and security measures while improving school climate and culture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• School Safety Assessments Comprehensive safety, security, climate, culture, and emergency preparedness assessments tailored to individual school or district needs, with analysts working collaboratively with faculty and staff to identify improvement opportunities and provide corrective solutions. For K-12 schools and school districts.
• School Safety Training Evidence-based training programs utilizing interactive approaches that allow employees to pull from their personal knowledge base to evaluate an emergency situation and choose an effective course of action when it matters most. For school staff and administrators.
• School Safety Consulting Expert consulting services in which Safe Havens analysts help schools integrate the latest technology and security measures, embracing safety, security, and emergency preparedness practices that produce results.
• Conference & Workshop Presentations Keynote presentations and interactive sessions for school district convocations, staff training sessions, and facilitated work sessions, delivered by Safe Havens analysts with a world-class, unforgettable message.
• Training Video Production Custom production of training videos including student supervision resources, vaping prevention content, safety training content, and crisis survival materials for schools and districts.
• School Security Expert Witness Services Fee-based expert witness services for court cases involving school safety, security incidents, and campus safety litigation.
• School Safety Crisis Scenarios DVD ('The First 30 Seconds') Training DVD sold through the Safe Havens webstore containing school crisis scenarios for staff training, including emergency protective actions such as lockdown, evacuation, reverse evacuation, room clear, severe weather sheltering, and sheltering in place.
• School Safety Planning Templates Planning templates sold or made available through the webstore for school safety, crisis planning, and emergency preparedness documentation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Assessed more than 1,000 K-12 schools in less than 18 months (2018-2019)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor, flagship and core.

• Dale Partners Architects (Gary Bailey AIA)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Gary Bailey AIA from Dale Partners Architects designed Magnolia Middle School in Moss Point, Mississippi, which Safe Havens International recognizes as a premier example of CPTED application in K-12 school design. Michael Dorn met Bailey at the Learning SCAPES School Design Conference. While not a formal partnership, Bailey's work exemplifies the CPTED principles that Safe Havens advocates for in school design consulting.
• Broward County Public Schools (BCPS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2018Safe Havens was unanimously selected by the School Board of Broward County following the Marjorie-Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy to conduct the nation's first comprehensive school safety, security, climate, culture, and emergency preparedness assessment in the wake of a mass casualty school shooting. Safe Havens has also been providing ongoing post-incident assistance and helping BCPS implement the nation's first Enterprise Risk Management Department. Significant pro bono work has been donated alongside contracted services.
• Navigate PreparedcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 August 2017Navigate Prepared sponsors free school safety summits in multiple cities, with Safe Havens International delivering keynote addresses, interactive scenario-based training sessions, and facility safety walk-throughs at these events. Safe Havens also scripts, records, and edits school audio crisis scenarios as a value-added service for Navigate Prepared and their clients. Partnership has included events in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.
• South Carolina Department of EducationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2016Safe Havens International was selected after a competitive bid process to create a new school safety train-the-trainer program for the South Carolina Department of Education. Through this program, 250 carefully selected instructors were trained across five regions of the state. The program included five training modules: Permission to Live, The Window of Life, Getting Back Together, When the Dust Clears, and Road to Recovery. Graduates received multimedia presentations, planning tools, and 30+ school crisis video and audio scenarios.
• Dr. Randy AtlasminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Dr. Randy Atlas, a licensed architect and Ph.D. criminologist who authored one of the few CPTED textbooks, served as a general session speaker alongside Michael Dorn at the International Conference on Safe School Design at Johnson and Wales University in Denver. Dr. Atlas teaches an accredited 3-credit hour online CPTED course through Florida Atlantic University that Safe Havens references as a resource.
• Tyco Integrated SecurityminorGTM or Marketing PartnerTyco Integrated Security sponsored a free school security webinar delivered by Michael Dorn of Safe Havens International titled 'Beyond the Headlines.' The webinar focused on integrating human performance with school safety technology and was attended by over 120 participants from across the U.S. and Peru. Tyco agreed to allow Safe Havens to make the archived webinar available for free.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• CrisisGo: CrisisGo offers a K-12-focused emergency management and safety platform (drills, incidents, response workflows) — an emerging SaaS competitor to Safe Havens' consulting-led safety and drill services, especially for districts seeking tech-first delivery.
• LiveSafe: LiveSafe provides campus safety mobile apps and tip-reporting platforms used by schools and universities, serving as an emerging technology peer adjacent to Safe Havens' K-12 crisis preparedness and threat reporting offerings.
• Centegix: Centegix provides wearable panic alert and crisis response technology for schools, competing for the same K-12 emergency preparedness budget Safe Havens addresses through consulting, though via hardware rather than advisory services.

Direct peers

• Navigate Prepared: Navigate Prepared sells school emergency management software and crisis communication platforms while also co-hosting safety summits with Safe Havens — a hybrid competitor/partner that overlaps directly on drill execution and incident response consulting.
• Raptor Technologies: Raptor Technologies provides visitor management, emergency management, and school safety software used by thousands of U.S. K-12 districts, competing with Safe Havens for the same district safety budgets through technology-first assessment and drill platforms.
• ALICE Training: ALICE Training is one of the most widely adopted active-shooter response training programs for K-12 schools, directly competing with Safe Havens' Dorn Drill and staff training offerings on the same buyer (school administrators and district safety coordinators).
• National School Safety Center: The National School Safety Center is a long-established non-profit providing K-12 school safety training, publications, and consulting — a direct historical peer operating in the same school safety advisory niche as Safe Havens.
• I Love U Guys Foundation: The I Love U Guys Foundation created the Standard Response Protocol adopted across thousands of K-12 schools, directly competing with Safe Havens' Dorn Drill methodology on standardized emergency response protocols and staff training.
• Sandy Hook Promise: Sandy Hook Promise is a leading school safety non-profit delivering K-12 violence prevention programs (Know the Signs, Say Something) — directly overlapping Safe Havens' student-side prevention, training, and school culture mission through a non-profit model.

Others

• Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates (HYA): HYA is an education executive search and consulting firm whose school safety advisory services overlap with Safe Havens' district-level consulting work, making them an adjacent participant in K-12 safety procurement decisions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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