Magen David Adom Trains North American Security Directors
Israeli paramedics led emergency response training for security directors overseeing community programs across North America during the Secure Community Network's annual summit.
Updated on Nov. 4, 2026 in Emergency Response
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Magen David Adom paramedics led the First 7 Minutes training program for the Secure Community Network's Security Director Network during the group's annual Security Summit on Tuesday. The session followed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Secure Community Network and American Friends of MDA to partner on emergency response training.
Why it matters
The partnership aims to bring MDA's emergency response expertise to Jewish communities across North America, extending training beyond individual responders to the security leaders who oversee those communities. Because the training was the first delivered to this network, it establishes a template for how emergency response instruction may reach community security operations worldwide.
Organizers report that community security professionals representing 95% of North American community security programs had the opportunity to train with MDA, a program-participation figure drawn from the Secure Community Network's own count. The course is designed to reach more than 550 communities and key centers of Jewish life, but the number of attendees who completed the training has not been reported.
The players
Magen David Adom (MDA)
Israel's national emergency medical, ambulance, and blood services organization, which supplied the paramedics who led the training.
Secure Community Network (SCN)
A security organization that coordinates protective programs for Jewish communities across North America and hosted the annual Security Summit.
American Friends of MDA
The U.S.-based support organization that signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Secure Community Network to partner on emergency response training.
The details
MDA paramedics led the cornerstone First 7 Minutes training, which combined instruction, hands-on practice, and train-the-trainer breakouts covering scene assessment, severe bleeding control, triage, and response coordination. The pilot incorporates MDA protocols and complements the Secure Community Network's existing Stop the Bleed program, preparing security directors to deliver the course in their own communities.
Timeline
Tuesday: MDA First 7 Minutes training held during the Secure Community Network Security Summit.
Over the coming months: Joint MDA and Secure Community Network trainings planned for community members in select communities.
Seasonal Patterns
The pilot complements the Secure Community Network's Stop the Bleed program, extending that bleeding-control model with MDA's scene-assessment and triage protocols for security directors across North America. Rather than a one-time seminar, the partnership is structured to be replicated through joint community trainings over the coming months.
Community members in participating areas may be invited to joint MDA and Secure Community Network trainings in the coming months. Security directors who complete the program can deliver the First 7 Minutes course and bleeding-control instruction locally.
The takeaway
Emergency response training is most effective when it reaches the people who run community security, not only responders. Training that teaches scene assessment and severe bleeding control can be shared by those leaders with the communities they protect.
What happens next
Secure Community Network and MDA are working to hold joint trainings for community members in select communities over the coming months.
Further reading
For more on how training is delivered in crisis situations, see the Emergency Response section.
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