K-12 Behavioral Threat Assessment Training & Management

The goal is to provide K-12 threat assessment teams with tools and resources to conduct and manage threat cases

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
• 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
• Group case exercises