The short answer
Run, Hide, Fight is a concise public-safety framework for choosing among evacuation, concealment, and last-resort defensive action during an active-shooter incident. Stop the Bleed focuses on recognizing life-threatening bleeding and using direct pressure, wound packing, and a tourniquet. Active-violence training is broader when it combines awareness, response decision-making, realistic practice, communication, and bleeding control within an organization’s emergency plan.
What to know
Arrow offers AVIRT, HSI’s Active Violence Immediate Response Training. HSI describes AVIRT as teaching situational awareness, choices to escape, evade, or attack, and emergency bleeding-control techniques. It should not be presented as a guarantee, police tactical training, or a replacement for 911, an emergency action plan, or formal medical certification unless the course specifically includes one.
The approaches complement one another. CISA provides active-shooter preparedness resources; ACS Stop the Bleed provides a recognized bleeding-control curriculum; AVIRT packages active-violence and bleeding-response concepts into a structured course. Organizations should review terminology with local responders because different agencies use different response language. Training should be accessible, trauma-conscious, and connected to the facility’s alarms, exits, shelter locations, and communications.