Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Two Day Virtual Training

Event Schedule

 Day 1: Thursday, September 24th, 8:00AM-11:30AM
Day 2: Wednesday, September 30th, 11:30AM-3:00PM

This is a two-day virtual event. Attendance is expected on both days.

This training is brought to you by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Office of School Safety.

Course Description: This course is designed to provide school administrators, school mental health professionals, security personnel and law enforcement with an understanding of why threat assessment is an important part of violence prevention in schools. Topics include the following: how threat assessment fits in the framework of comprehensive school safety, overview of research and findings related to threat assessment, investigative themes and core concepts of threat assessment, key aspects for creating school-based threat assessment teams and process, how to determine the appropriate response to concerning behavior, and potential strategies for threat management. Training will involve lecture, discussion, and tabletop scenarios.

Instructors: Susan Williams joined OSS as Threat Assessment Specialist following 31 years as a school psychologist. She is certified by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) as a Trainer of Trainers for the PREPaRE 1 and 2 crisis prevention and response curriculum and is a National Threat Evaluation and Reporting Office (NTER) Master Trainer. Cheryl Johnson is the Crisis Response and Recovery Specialist with OSS. Prior to her current role, she worked in 4K-12 public education as a school social worker for 19 years. Cheryl is a certified trainer for Youth Mental Health First Aid and NASP PREPaRE 2, as well as a National Threat Evaluation and Reporting Office Master Trainer.

Location:
Virtual- links will be provided for both training days prior to event.

There is no cost to participants for attending this training.