Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment®

Duration: 8 hours

The Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment® (BDTA) management model is designed to empower Safety/Threat Assessment Teams in the early assessment to determine individuals on the pathway to violence.

Description

Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment® (BDTA) is the first blended multidisciplinary model designed to help Safety/Threat Assessment teams in the early identification and assessment of individuals on the pathway to violence. BDTA® integrates Safer Schools Together’s Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) training and best practice from the National Threat Assessment Center’s (NTAC) Behavioral Threat Assessment model which is founded on more than 20 years of research. BDTA® includes a 3-step response plan developed to help teams ensure all worrisome, concerning, and threat-related behaviors are proactively responded to reducing the potential of violence within your community.

 

This training will include:

  • How to conduct an initial assessment, a comprehensive Multidisciplinary data collection and assessment
  • How to develop a Threat Intervention & Management Plan
  • Best practices for duty to warn/inform
  • How Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) initiatives and social-emotional learning in schools positively impact school culture, climate, and connectedness
  • How to establish a Multidisciplinary/Multiagency Threat Assessment team
  • Best practices when conducting searches in home and school environments
  • How to conduct digital searches on open-source platforms, language analysis, proper documentation, and centralized reporting
  • Defining concerning, prohibited, and worrisome behaviors
  • Defining thresholds for Law Enforcement investigations
  • How to establish assessment procedures, including best practices for interviewing, threat management, and progress monitoring
  • Current best practice for communicating when responding to threat-related behavior

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