Behavioral Threat Assessment Training and Resources
The Arkansas Center for School Safety (the Center) has been awarded a Bureau of Justice Assistance grant to assist Arkansas school districts, both public and private, to develop effective behavioral threat assessment teams and processes. Threat assessment is a critical component of preventing school shootings and other targeted violence on campus.
THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE TO ARKANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS:
Threat Assessment Toolkit
The toolkit includes guidance and resources for implementing a behavioral threat assessment team and introduces the concept of threat assessment in schools.
Introduction to Behavioral Threat Assessment ONLINE
This one-hour course will highlight research findings regarding the thoughts and behaviors of individuals who perpetuate acts of targeted violence, processes to develop a school threat assessment team and guidance on community engagement and overcoming the Bystander Effect.
Basic Behavior Threat Assessment
This seven-hour course explores the basic procedures and guidelines for threat assessment teams. Topics include strategies for diverting students on a violent trajectory, components of threat assessment policies and procedures, defining and identifying behaviors for assessment screenings and levels of interventions needed to deter acts of violence.
Advanced Behavioral Threat Assessment
This course is based on research and best practices in the area of school threat assessment and on the experiences of the instructors’ co-authoring the U.S. Secret Service/U.S. Department of Education model of school threat assessment.
PLEASE NOTE: This course includes interactive scenarios designed for actual teams. It is recommended that all members or potential members of a school threat assessment team should attend the same course delivery.
THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR ANY OF THESE RESOURCES.
For more information, contact: Diana Larkin, ACSS Coordinator • 501-570-8098 • [email protected]