Behavioral Threat Assessment - Private Schools

This is a one day basic course designed to provide K-12 Private School Threat Assessment Teams with tools and resources to conduct and manage threat cases. The course covers the following:

• Topics to be addressed

  Topics to be covered include:

  •  What is a threat? What is concerning/aberrant behavior?

  •  Rationale for the threat assessment approach to violence prevention

  •  The principles of threat assessment

  •  Understanding the Pathway to Violence

  •  Mandated roles and responsibilities of threat assessment teams

  •  The importance of reporting, reporting mechanisms, and overcoming barriers to reporting

  •   Investigating reports of concerning/aberrant/threatening behaviors

  •   Assessing and classifying threats

  •   The nexus between threat assessment and suicide risk assessment

  •   Information sharing and confidentiality

  •   Understanding the goals of threat management and interventions

  •   Updated group case exercise(s)