Community Safety Simulation Center

Located at Northcentral Technical College’s Public Safety Center of Excellence, the Community Safety Simulation Center is a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to enhancing emergency preparedness and crisis response training for schools, faith-based organizations, health care providers and community members.

This 3,500 square foot facility boasts a fully adaptable, multi-room space with 360-degree smart screens designed to immerse participants in custom training scenarios. Through advanced audio-visual capabilities, teams can review their actions and discuss alternative approaches, allowing for critical reflection and skill refinement. This realistic, hands-on experience ensures individuals and teams develop the critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills necessary to navigate high-stress situations effectively.

A man takes part in a protest simulation in the Community Safety Simulation Center, where projected individuals stand outside with a megaphone and a sign reading “Turn to the TRUTH!” in a residential setting.

The Community Safety Simulation Center (CSSC) provides realistic, high-pressure training experiences designed to address emerging security threats in schools, healthcare facilities, faith-based organizations and other community spaces. The system responds dynamically to participant actions, creating an immersive, decision-driven environment that enhances crisis response and preparedness.

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Broad Application

Who We Serve

While the CSSC is designed to serve education, healthcare, faith-based, and law enforcement professionals, it is also available for other nonprofit and for-profit organizations, ensuring that a wide range of community safety and crisis response training needs can be met.

A man participates in an active shooter simulation set in a school hallway, aiming a training weapon at a projected scenario within the Community Safety Simulation Center.

Schools & Educational Institutions

Active threats, medical incidents, and crisis management.

A simulated hospital scene is projected across curved screens in the Community Safety Simulation Center, showing a man standing near a wheelchair in a busy medical facility.

Healthcare Facilities

Patient safety, emergency response, and de-escalation.

A church interior is projected across curved screens in the Community Safety Simulation Center, depicting pews, an altar, and virtual individuals in a faith-based scenario for safety training.

Faith-Based Organizations

Congregation safety, security planning, and emergency preparedness.

A man interacts with a large, curved screen in the Community Safety Simulation Center, participating in a virtual protest scenario with projected individuals holding signs and filming.

Law Enforcement & Community Safety Organizations

Crisis response and community safety management.

Adaptive Training

Multi-Room Simulated Environments

The multi-room simulated environment is a fully adaptable training space designed to create realistic, scenario-based experiences. Participants must navigate hallways, open doors, round corners and transition between spaces, enhancing situational awareness.

Customizable Layouts

The structure can be reconfigured into various layouts to match different training needs, including classrooms, hospital rooms, offices, and worship spaces.

Immersive Scenario Projection

Multiple interactive projection surfaces create a seamless, evolving storyline that reacts to participant decisions in real time.

Dynamic, Multi-Room Navigation

Participants must open doors, round corners, and transition between spaces as they would in real-world environments. They also assess risks, make split-second decisions, and react to changing conditions.

Enhanced Realism + Decision-Making

The multi-room setup challenges participants to manage complex, unfolding scenarios while maintaining situational awareness and communication.

360-Degree Smart Screens

Participants engage in interactive scenarios projected onto multiple surfaces, requiring real-time decision-making and response.

Flexible, Modular Design: Smart screens can be configured to project a 360-degree view of a single location or simulate multiple rooms or environments for complex scenarios.
Hands-On, Movement-Based Training: Participants must move, communicate and engage as they would in real-world emergency situations.
Multiple Scenario Outcomes: Every decision impacts the situation, reinforcing situational awareness, critical thinking and adaptive response skills.

A man engages in a protest scenario within the Community Safety Simulation Center, gesturing toward a projected individual recording with a phone in an outdoor setting surrounded by trees.

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