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Mike Nelson, MS, LPC, NCC

Director/Founder
Director, Program Development & Instruction
Email: Mike@KeysToSaferSchools.com
Master's level Licensed Professional Counselor

Specialization License - Counselor Supervisor for LAC's
Certified by the National Board for Certified Counselors.
Certified Private Medicaid Provider 
Certified  AIDS Counselor                                                                                      Click to Learn More
Certified  CPI
Certified  in Keys to Excellent's Cognitive Restructuring Curriculum

Experience in:  

• Member of NASRO

• Clinical Director of Multiple Mental Health Clinics

• State Director of School-based Mental Health Services for Mental Health Organization.

• Past Clinical Director of a Juvenile Residential Facility servicing Court Order Juveniles and DCFS Youth.

• Past Director of Program Development for a Tri-County Community Mental Health Center.

• Past Director of Youth Services for a Tri-County Community Mental Health Center serving Court ordered Juveniles and providing therapy to Serious Offender Juveniles.

• Clinical work with serious offender juveniles and families

• Clinical Therapy with Act 911, those pleading Insanity for violent crimes.

• Clinical Therapy with Paroled Sex Offenders

• Clinical expert witness for many Child Abuse Court Cases.

• Clinical consulting with public schools for Serious Emotional Disturbed Students

• Clinical work with AIDS Patients

• Public schools consulting.

• Has worked with parents of school shooting victims, law enforcement officer (ex. Officer who shot student in El Cajon, California, at Granite Hills High School.) , Superintendent at Schools involved in School Shootings (ex. Superintendent of Schools in Pearl, Mississippi) teachers, students, and more.

• Expansion & development of Teen Courts, Truancy programs,  electronic monitoring of delinquent juveniles, and more.

• Creation of suspension/expulsion programs in school districts

• Therapy services with victims of a Tornado

• Development of behavioral components in Behavioral Classrooms, Alternative Schools, Sanction School, School-based & Non-School based Day Treatment Programs.

• Workings of Juvenile Justice system in the State of Arkansas & other states

• Prior member of Youth Services Providers Association of Arkansas and chaired a committee charged with the development of State Standards for mental health care of youth by the Division of Youth Services.

• Private Medicaid Eligibility 

• Grant Writing, Program Development, Medicaid revenue maximization

• Certified in a Cognitive Restructuring curriculum for juveniles

• Certified in CPI, a physical restraint technique

• Military Disaster Relief when a Titan II Missile explode in AR

• Military Training - Air Force

Specialized Training:

• Specialization License as a Supervisor of new Mental Health Therapist's (LAC)

• Positive Approaches to Solving Severe Behavioral Problems

• Cognitive Restructuring curriculum for juvenile in corrections institutions

• Identifying Gangs and intervention skills

• Training in Physical Intervention Skills (Therapeutic Hold Techniques)  

• Identifying and treating Sexual Abuse victims

• Treatment approaches for ADHD/ADD

• Treatment of PTSD and other anxiety disorders

• De-escalation Techniques

• AIDS Counseling Training

• Safe Management of Bomb threats

• Management of Assaultive Behavior

• Managing Anger & Aggression of Children

Expert Guest Speaker:

• A featured speaker and trainer in a Japanese Documentary sponsored by Japan Ministry of Education on Youth Violence in Japan.

• A featured speaker on FOX NEWS with Sabrina Steger, Mother of Kayce Steger, a school shooting victim at Paducah, Kentucky.

• A featured speaker on numerous other TV shows discussing "Kids coping with 911", "Dealing with the Santana High School Shooting", "Tips to remaining safe from the NY Beltway Sniper", and more...

• Featured on BBC Radio "Up All Night" out of London discussing the sentencing of the Santana High School shooter.

• On numerous other Radio Shows discussing "Identifying the Potentially Dangerous Student" (one radio show - RealPlay or Mpg), "How to Stop Bullying in Schools", "What can parents do to keep their student safe in school", and much more...

Frank G. Green, MA, LPC

Director/Founder
Executive Director
Email: Frank@KeysToSaferSchools.com
Master's level Licensed Professional Counselor
Certified Private Medicaid Provider 
Member: Mental Health Counselors Association of Arkansas; American Counseling Association; Arkansas Counseling Association; Association for Religious and Ethical Values in Counseling; Learning Disabilities Association of America, National Association of School Resource Officers.

Experience:

• Member of NASRO

• Past Assistant Director of a State agency "Division of Youth Services" 

  • Management of Juvenile Incarceration and Serious Offender Programs for the State.  

  • Oversight for all "wilderness camps" for adjudicated juveniles

  • Incarcerated juveniles convicted of multiple school murders and assaults.

  • Placed Boys and Girls Club, first in the US, in a State Incarceration Facility.

• Clinical Therapist

  • Clinical, residential, out-patient and private practice.

  • Trained and Certified in the use of various psychometric instruments.

  • Residential and Out-patient counseling for youth at risk.

• Certified in a Cognitive Restructuring curriculum for juveniles

• In-home interventions through Human Services and Juvenile Court

• Residential and Out-patient counseling for youth at risk.

• 20 years as Commissioned Officer.

  • Military Trained Risk Assessment Officer

  • Developer of curricula for Major Miltary Training Center.

• Taught at the k-12 and University levels.

• Public school consulting and crisis intervention.

• Created new organizations in the private, military and government sectors.

• Director of a Boys and Girls Club.

• Multiple positions with the Juvenile Justice system 

• Program Development and Grant Writing

• Management (Public, Private and Government organizations)

Specialized Training:

• Keys to Excellence

• Organizational Effectiveness and Management Skills

• Cognitive Restructuring curriculum for juvenile in corrections institutions

• Military Threat Analysis

• Military Bomb Ordnance trained

• Organizational Effectiveness and Management Skills

• Managing Aggressive Behavior

• Physical Intervention Techniques

• Certified AIDS counselor 
  

About The Directors of Keys-Canada

Sgt Curtis Rutt, M.B.  

Serving as the Training Sergeant for a Canadian Police Force in Ontario, Canada

Award:

Sgt Rutt was awarded the Medal of Bravery in 2001 from Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada for a police diving incident.

Experience:

• Sgt. Rutt has over 17 years law enforcement experience.

• He has served as a Patrol and Street Crime Officer, Drug Enforcement Officer, Police Motorcycle Officer

Specialized Training:

• Immediate Action/Rapid Deployment Instructor

• Tactical Officer (S.W.A.T.)

• Underwater Search and Recovery Specialist and Instructor

• Police Sniper

• Use of Force Trainer

• Defensive Tactics Instructor

• Tactical Firearms Instructor

• Search and Rescue Incident Commander

• Certified Trainer in Assessing the Potentially Dangerous Student. 

About The Directors of Keys-Europe

Bo Munthe, SSP  of Stockholm, Sweden

Keys-Europe Managing Director

Certified by the National School Safety Center and
Certified by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice 
Founder of International School Safety Association (ISSA)

Certified as a Sweden School Safety Professional (SSP)

Experience:  

• Has developed special methods for preventing Workplace Violence through his programs Safe Workplace and Safe School;

  • threat assessment,
  • creating and implementing plan of actions,

  • written training material in handling threat and violence

• Working with the effect of media violence on children in connection with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, (ret.) - Killology Research Group, Arkansas, USA.

• Trained and certified by NSSC, National School Safety Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA, School Safety Leadership, 2000.

• A member of IASSP (International Association of School Safety Professionals) since 1999

• Was a "Fellow member" of the American Institute of Stress, for 1999

• Is a member of the Swedish Association of Narcotic Police, SNPF

Writings

• Has written numerous articles about how to prevent work place violence, conflict management and self defense.

• Also written Books about Martial Arts, Safe Work and Conflict Management

• Is during autumn of 2004 releasing his book about school safety in Sweden.

• During spring 2005 his memoirs from his life in the Martial Arts are planned for celebrating the 30 year anniversary of ninjutsu in Europe.

Martial Arts - Budo

• Since 1958 Bo has trained and studied the Ancient Japanese Martial Arts, Budo. He is entitled shihan (master instructor) and shidoshi (teacher of the warrior ways).

• Is a black belt in a multitude of them, i.e. judo (1 dan 1973), jiujitsu (6 dan 1988), Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu - ninjutsu (9 dan 1993).

• Introduced ninjutsu 1975, now under the name of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu, to Sweden and during some years in the 1980-s in different countries of Europe. Called the Grandfather of European Ninjutsu.

• Founded Ninpo Goshinjutsu Mu Te Jinen Ryu 1977.

• Awarded the highest distinction in Swedish Budo by the Swedish Budo Federation (1997) and Bu-fu yukosho, honorary medal in gold (1985) by Soke Masaaki Hatsumi, Japan.

About The Directors of Keys-Australia

Kevin Dickson,

Keys-Australia Managing Director

He has served in the Australian Federal Police and has over 15 years of Police Officer Survival training experience.  He has performed close protection/ security duties for 3 Prime Ministers, several Ambassadors and Heads of State, Mr. William GATES and family and others.  While in the United States, he trained with the U.S. Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Administration. He has trained several Police Department and Federal Agency personnel in the United States and is a member of the National tactical Officers Association (NTOA). 

He has received and provided extensive security training in the United States, Israeli and Australia.  

He has designed and delivered situational awareness and targeted violence training.  This training included surveillance/counter-surveillance procedures.  He designed and delivered training for the US Federal Flight Deck Officer Program in the United States.  This anti-hijack training was incorporated into their Flight Crew Hijack training program and involved high intensity simulation training which encouraged the flight deck officers and crew to maintain security risk awareness and overcome assault by multiple assailants. Along with this training he provided training advice in post September 11 airline operations.

Kevin designed and delivered training in relation to understanding the psychology of targeted violence and the characteristics of violent individuals using US Secret Service threat assessment methodologies.  He has delivered this program to a wide range of audiences from school teachers to corporate executives

He has extensive knowledge of suicide bombing methodologies and interdiction strategies having provided instructional training to several police agencies and Airlines.

He has also provided security/safety risk assessment using both traditional and Red Team methodologies.

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