About

Compass Training Solutions Group is a nonprofit organization dedicated to community education, emergency preparedness, and personal safety. Our mission is to equip individuals with lifesaving skills to protect themselves, assist others, and strengthen their communities.  With a strong emphasis on public health and preparedness, youth engagement, as well as personal and family safety, Compass Training Solutions Group provides accessible, high-quality training programs.  Through hands-on instruction, we break down complex concepts into practical, easy-to-learn skills that can be confidently applied in a variety of critical situations.

Through our two training divisions—Critical Care First Aid and Critical Care Self-Defense—we provide expert-led instruction in emergency response, prehospital care, self-protection, and firearms safety for both everyday citizens and professionals.  We collaborate with instructors, emergency responders, law enforcement, and government agencies internationally to conduct disaster preparedness training, emergency drills, and public safety workshops. At Compass Training Solutions Group, we believe that education builds safer, stronger, and more resilient communities—empowering individuals to take action, make a difference,

and save lives.

Critical Care First Aid courses offer Emergency Medical Training to civilians and professional rescuers who wish to improve their personal skill sets in caring for life threatening emergent illnesses and injuries. Courses are adaptable to all ages, experience levels, and specific first aid needs. The recommended equipment and skill sets are adaptable and can be used in a variety of critical care situations. The same skill set used to respond to an MCI such as a natural disaster, explosion, or a building collapse can be applied just as easily to a single injured patient in a remote recreation setting, an MVA, or a fall from a ladder.  The mission is to provide confidence in the medical management of injuries at or near the site of wounding, with minimal risk to the caregiver and maximum benefit to the patient.

Courses are adaptable to all ages, experience levels, and specific first aid needs.  Traditional first aid classes deliver instruction for providing comfort and care for a large array of injuries and illnesses, but the material can be vast and overwhelming.  Tactical medical courses often focus on care in the most extreme or violent scenarios and can be intimidating to the general public.  The average active bystander, someone that is willing to step forward in a crisis and render aid, needs only a few, highly effective skills and pieces of equipment to preserve life and improving long term patient outcomes until professional EMS can arrive. 

With this in mind, the Critical Care First Aid curriculum began to evolve. Accessible to all experience and comfort levels, less skills to learn, easier to train and become proficient, which means more likely to be performed in stressful conditions.  

In response to an increasing number of Mass Care Incidents (MCI) in the United States, FEMA has stated that there is a nationwide gap in prehospital trauma care and addressing this gap cannot fall solely on the shoulders of licensed EMS. In order to optimize care rendered prior to the arrival of EMS and reduce the number of deaths from survivable injuries, the population at large must be prepared to render aid.