*Prerequisite: SST Digital Threat Assessment® (within the past two years)

Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) builds and expands significantly on the content covered during the prerequisite DTA training. Participants will gain a concrete understanding of how to select relevant digital information found in real-life School Safety / Threat Assessment data gathering scenarios. Working collaboratively through case scenarios based on real-life situations, teams navigate the social media world using familiar and new techniques.

Trainers will share standard operating procedures as participants work towards a final practical assignment by applying tools and lessons learned. Participants will leave feeling confident in their ability to independently establish the Digital Behavioral Baseline of a subject of concern (SOC) and produce a comprehensive report.

YOU WILL LEARN:

• The browser extensions vital to conducting online searches
• Application of advanced online investigative tools
• How to establish the Digital Behavioral Baseline of an individual, school, and community
• Online searches for capturing timely and relevant content before it disappears (e.g., impending bomb threat, school lockdown, cyberbullying)
• How to use social media to find a missing person
• How to address online threat-related behaviors and anonymous threats
• How to use law enforcement guides to request user identifying information (preservation and production orders)
• How to configure dashboards: automating searches to save time
• The lesser-known platforms: Gab, 4chan, 8kun, and kiwi farms
• Current best practice for teams addressing school shooting threats, self-harm, sexting/sextortion, and bullying/cyberbullying related incidents
• Crowdsourcing using Twitter geofencing
• Reverse phone/email search
• How to examine the metadata of photos
• Photoshop/error level analysis
• Useful browser add-ons and extensions

*Further preparatory instructions for the Advanced DTA class will be provided in your registration email.

Testimonials

Great session that will help me support students and families with a timely and relevant concern. Very eye-opening!

Jeff Chalmers, Principal

Jeff Chalmers, Principal Rockyview Schools

With the charges in school safety, Safer Schools Together allows those who are involved in education, regardless of their title, to work alongside a team of knowledgeable trainers to bring answers and provide suggestions for training and implementation. It does not get any better than this!

Carla Cunningham, Principal

Carla Cunningham, Principal Greenwood Elementary School

This training provided valuable tools and insight into helping prevent school place violence. I loved the training materials they provide so I can review the material between the trainings.

Mitchell Barton, School Resource Officer

Mitchell Barton, School Resource Officer Pittsfield Police Department

Prediction, prevention, and intervention should begin with digital threat assessment. When this important piece is overlooked, tragedies occur, tragedies that could have been averted. Digital threat assessment is a critical component of student and school safety.

Nicole Pieranunzi, Director of Special Education Services

Nicole Pieranunzi, Director of Special Education Services West40

Absolutely amazing training, and extremely relevant – the trainers did a fantastic job and really dove into advanced techniques that will come in very handy! THANK YOU!

Wil Gage, School Safety and Threat Assessment Specialist

Wil Gage, School Safety and Threat Assessment Specialist West 40

There was a lot to learn. Maybe have emailed a list with the available sites and resources

Andrea Zavada, SRO Deputy

Andrea Zavada, SRO Deputy Livingston County Sheriff's Department

Very focused training. Thank you so much!!! Very much enjoyed this.

Ross	Cornett, Co IT Coordinator

Ross Cornett, Co IT Coordinator Altamont unit 10 schools

Great class always changing topic

John Shallenberger,

John Shallenberger, Tazewell County Sheriff Office

Great opportunity to learn tips and tool to help keep out students and school safe.

Aaron Ventsias, Principal

Aaron Ventsias, Principal Laraway70c

Lots of great info about the many social media platforms. We can’t know it all, so it was good to spend the day with this topic.

Thomas Elbel, Principal

Thomas Elbel, Principal Rocky View Schools

Fantastic presentation: informative, and a touch terrifying.

Chael Wyper, Principal

Chael Wyper, Principal Rocky View Schools

This was excellent. It is a lot to take in but any Threat Assessment Plan that does not include a member who had this training cannot be as effective as one that does.

Mike Denault, District Superintendent

Mike Denault, District Superintendent Waltonville CUSD#1

This was a timely training to address this important topic.

Jocelyn Littlefair, School Principal

Jocelyn Littlefair, School Principal Rockyview Schools

Such surprising content. I learned a ton and have a greater sense of things to look for.

Jason Billings, Principal

Jason Billings, Principal Principal

With the charges in school safety, Safer Schools Together allows those who are involved in education, regardless of their title, to work alongside a team of knowledgeable trainers to bring answers and provide suggestions for training and implementation. It doesn’t get any better than this!

Carla Cunningham, Principal

Carla Cunningham, Principal Greenwood Elementary School

This training provided valuable tools and insight into helping prevent school place violence. I loved the training materials they provide so I can review the material between the trainings.

Mitchell Barton, School Resource Officer

Mitchell Barton, School Resource Officer Pittsfield Police Department

Prediction, prevention, and intervention should begin with digital threat assessment. When this important piece is overlooked, tragedies occur, tragedies that could have been averted. Digital threat assessment is a critical component of student and school safety.

Nicole Pieranunzi, Director of Special Education Services

Nicole Pieranunzi, Director of Special Education Services West40

Absolutely amazing training, and extremely relevant – the trainers did a fantastic job and really dove into advanced techniques that will come in very handy! THANK YOU!

Wil Gage, School Safety and Threat Assessment Specialist

Wil Gage, School Safety and Threat Assessment Specialist West 40

There was a lot to learn. Maybe have emailed a list with the available sites and resources

Andrea Zavada, SRO Deputy

Andrea Zavada, SRO Deputy Livingston County Sheriff's Department

Very focused training. Thank you so much!!! Very much enjoyed this.

Ross	Cornett, Co IT Coordinator

Ross Cornett, Co IT Coordinator Altamont unit 10 schools

Great class always changing topic

John Shallenberger, Deputy Sheriff

John Shallenberger, Deputy Sheriff Tazewell County Sheriff's Office

Great opportunity to learn tips and tool to help keep out students and school safe.

Aaron Ventsias, Principal

Aaron Ventsias, Principal Laraway70c

Fantastic training that truly can save lives!

Douglas Rashkow, Police officer

Douglas Rashkow, Police officer Harper College Police Department

Great content. I learned so much and had no idea these tools were available for us to help protect our schools even further.

Keith Crispell, Superintendent

Keith Crispell, Superintendent Creede School District

This was a great training. I do appreciate how much participation was encouraged throughout this training. I know it’s hard to keep people engaged online, but the materials provided gave lots of opportunity to be hands on. The content was great, and I learned way more than I was expecting. Thanks for offering this class.

Anna Baker, School Resource Officer

Anna Baker, School Resource Officer Windsor Police Department

This training is super helpful in the role of threat assessment and really any investigative role! Thanks!

Chelsey Ellard, Threat Assessment and Intelligence Analyst

Chelsey Ellard, Threat Assessment and Intelligence Analyst George Mason University PD

The training was very informative and hands on. The information on social media was very interesting and important for school safety and awareness as an educator.

Christopher Miranda, M.S. Principal

Christopher Miranda, M.S. Principal NUSD #1

The Threat Assesssment Training provided opened my eyes to the dangers and reality we and our students live in the cyberworld, that can unfortunately spill over to the real world.

Carlos Tavares, Network Specialist

Carlos Tavares, Network Specialist NUSD #1

Both the basic and advanced sessions were very engaging and very eye-opening. There’s a lot that our students have to navigate and a lot of potential places for harm in the digital world that we did not have to deal with and may not fully understand. The sessions were an awaking and an opportunity to start learning about how to navigate the digital world to begin understanding the world our students live in.

Samir Biswas, Assistant Principal

Samir Biswas, Assistant Principal CiTi BOCES

Great content and applicable to law enforcement environment. Would be great if more consecutive days with this same content. Fun course that allows you to learn how to use everyday tools that are overlooked.

Matt Iannucci, Detective

Matt Iannucci, Detective CiTi BOCES

This training exceeded my expectations. The presenters were very knowledgeable in the field of Digital Threat Assessment.

MarkBrunschweiger, Safety Officer

MarkBrunschweiger, Safety Officer CiTi BOCES

The information in this training is way more advanced and prepares you on how to conduct searches you may not have known were possible.  It opened my eyes to how much information/technology is out there that can be used for either good or bad.  The training is definitely worth going through. You will learn a lot and a lot of resources are provided to you.  Definitely recommend.

Terry Trautman, Detective

Terry Trautman, Detective Pinellas County Sheriff's Office

I have participated in two SST training courses and both have been phenomenal. The topics are relevant to everyone working in k-12 and higher education and law enforcement.  The skills I learned are invaluable when it comes to using social media as an investigative tool. The hosts/trainers are knowledgeable, approachable, and eager to help. I recommend SST training and look forward to taking more in the future.

Brittany Floyd, Assistant Director

Brittany Floyd, Assistant Director Eastern Illinois University

This class provided some additional tools to use in any threat assessments that we may complete, and also provided different ways to look at some information that I would not think of normally.

Sarah Stark, Detective

Sarah Stark, Detective Northwestern University

This training definitely hit on some hard but relevant topics.  I left the training with confidence that as a team we will be able to assess digital threats and know when to pass on to law enforcement and how to keep our school community safe in an ever-changing digital world.  I look forward to continuing to learn more as the social media world around me changes every day.

Leigh Coradetti, Multi-Tiered System of Support Coordinator

Leigh Coradetti, Multi-Tiered System of Support Coordinator Kankakee School District #111

I have been working in threat assessment with our schools since 2015, and this training has magnified my knowledge in the area of digital research, social media platforms, and the vital aspect of including the social media report for subjects of concern. The presenters had a wealth of information and were able to maintain an interactive and captive message throughout the day. Highly recommend!

Nancy Kelley, Safe Schools Director

Nancy Kelley, Safe Schools Director Collierville Schools

Excellent hands-on practice for methods to gather digital information for school-based behavioral threat assessment investigations and inquiries.

Michael Grenda, School Psychologist Supervisor

Michael Grenda, School Psychologist Supervisor LaSalle Putnam Educational Alliance

These guys hit it out of the park! Great interaction with trainers and top-notch information disseminated!  Thank you again for providing such useful training!

Joy Davis, School Resource Officer

Joy Davis, School Resource Officer City of Edwardsville

Excellent training! Would recommend it to all of those working in education. Very informative and CAN SAVE LIVES!

Michael Prokop, Assistant Director of Campus Safety

Michael Prokop, Assistant Director of Campus Safety North Central College

Even with having knowledge of technology, I still learned new and useful tactics and information with SST!

Demitrius Skrapates, Technology Specialist

Demitrius Skrapates, Technology Specialist Dwight Public Schools

As a Deputy with the Sheriff’s Office, I work with runaways.  I found this training very informational as most all my kids use social media platforms to communicate. I hope to put into practice many of the skills I learned to help locate children and return them home.

Tracy Longano, Deputy

Tracy Longano, Deputy Pinellas County Sheriff's Office

I appreciated the thoroughness of the Threat Assessment training.  There were a lot of great details and real-world examples that were brought up.  I appreciated the website tools and that the ones that were chosen were freely available and not from a specific vendor.  Thanks for the training!

Dan Wang, Network Manager

Dan Wang, Network Manager Verona Area School District

This training has helped me advance my skills in investigations tremendously.  I will now be able to go above and beyond the general scope of knowledge and solve cases quicker and with stronger evidence now that I know how to look for the blatant information that is right at my fingertips

Megan, School Resource Officer

Megan, School Resource Officer Two Rivers Police Department

The Advanced Digital Threat Assessment course exceeded my expectations. All aspects of this course were directly applicable to helping me and my team keep our employees and our company safe, Well Done!

Brian Murray, Workplace Violence Prevention Manager

Brian Murray, Workplace Violence Prevention Manager Discover Financial Services

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