What training curriculum does CORRN use for confirmers and dispatchers, and where can its materials be reviewed?
Executive summary
The Colorado Rapid Response Network (CORRN) trains volunteers to serve as confirmers and dispatchers through an internal volunteer-training program focused on rapid response, documentation, legal observation and rights education, but the organization does not publish a public, detailed curriculum or course materials on its website; the publicly available information instead describes roles, numbers trained, and how to get involved [1] [2] [3]. Independent reporting and the coalition’s own event listings confirm that “confirmer” trainings exist and are offered to volunteers, yet none of the provided sources contains a full syllabus or downloadable training packet for external review [4] [3].
1. What CORRN says it trains volunteers to do
CORRN’s public “About” and “Get Involved” pages state that the network trains volunteers to serve as dispatchers, confirmers, legal observers and onsite action teams who can accompany people, share rights information, document incidents and help control the public narrative around ICE activity—functions CORRN frames as both humanitarian and movement-building rather than law-enforcement engagement [1] [2]. Those pages quantify the program’s scale—reporting hundreds to over a thousand volunteers statewide—and describe a 24/7 hotline model in which dispatchers alert confirmers and legal observers via text to respond to reported ICE activity [1] [2]. Independent reporting in Colorado Newsline reinforces this operational description: dispatchers confirm reports, notify confirmers who document scenes and hand out “Know Your Rights” cards, and volunteers are specifically instructed not to physically confront agents [3].
2. What the public evidence shows about curricular content
The publicly accessible evidence describes role responsibilities and some operational protocols—such as non-confrontation, documentation, rights dissemination and legal-observer accompaniment—but does not include a step-by-step training curriculum, lesson plans, or downloadable training materials for confirmers or dispatchers on CORRN’s website or in the articles reviewed [1] [2] [3]. An event listing hosted by a partner organization advertises a “confirmer training” session and warns that people without secure immigration status are not recommended to serve as confirmers, indicating at least basic participant guidance and selection criteria are part of the training rollout, but the event page itself does not embed the curriculum [4].
3. Where materials can be reviewed or requested
The only publicly available places to review CORRN’s stated program structure and volunteer roles are CORRN’s own web pages—“About Us” and “Get Involved”—and partner event listings that advertise trainings; these pages summarize the program and instruct people how to join but stop short of publishing full course materials [1] [2] [4]. Colorado Newsline’s reporting provides on-the-ground description of what trainings enable volunteers to do and how dispatchers and confirmers operate in practice, which functions as secondary documentary evidence of training outcomes rather than a substitute for a curriculum document [3]. None of the supplied sources contains a downloadable syllabus, slide deck, instructor guide, or public archive of CORRN’s training materials.
4. Limits of available reporting and alternative sources
Reporting and CORRN’s public pages leave a gap between operational description and curriculum transparency: the organization clearly trains volunteers and advertises sessions, but the specific modules, legal-content sources, role-playing scenarios, evaluation criteria, and instructor qualifications are not published in the reviewed sources [1] [4] [3]. Given that CORRN’s stated aim includes “controlling the public narrative” and movement-building alongside legal observer work, critics could infer an organizational interest in managing messaging as well as legal accuracy—an implicit agenda that is stated as strategy on the CORRN site [1]. If a detailed curriculum is required for external scrutiny—by journalists, researchers or legal observers—the appropriate next step is requesting materials or an overview directly from CORRN or attending a training session advertised via its events partners [1] [4] [2].
5. Bottom line and what can be done next
The factual record in available public sources is unambiguous on two points: CORRN operates a structured volunteer-training program for dispatchers and confirmers, and the organization publicly describes roles and protocols on its website and in partner event notices [1] [2] [4]. What is not publicly available in the reviewed material is a full training curriculum or set of training documents for independent review; obtaining those would require direct outreach to CORRN, attendance at a listed training, or follow-up reporting that requests curricula, instructor materials and participant assessments [4] [3].