Recognizing Signs of Targeted Violence is a course designed for the school site professional, administrator, academic counselor, or mental health clinician who works directly with students.  This course provides the requisite knowledge to recognize and identify the pathways to violence, known warning behaviors leading up to a targeted act of violence, as well as the impact of mental health. This course will cover the importance of partnership between the police departments and school districts, and how both entities can collaborate with a multi-disciplinary threat assessment team. Attendees review several known commonalities of prior attackers, and how those common factors impact the threat assessment process.  Lastly, this course identifies intervention and mitigation strategies to interrupt the pathway to violence and prevent a targeted act of violence using real-world case studies. Slide Deck

 

Contact: Jason Johnson, Consultant
Campus Safety Consultations
707-416-7818 or campus.safety.consultations@gmail.com

 

The National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) is a component of the Secret Service and U.S. Homeland Security. The center’s staff is composed of a multidisciplinary team of social science researchers and regional program managers who support law enforcement, schools, government, and other public and private sector organizations to combat the threat of targeted violence impacting communities across the U.S. NTAC has published these documents to address threats of violence:

 

Averting Targeted School Violence- A U.S. Secret Service Analysis, 2021

Protecting America's Schools- A U.S. Secret Service Analysis, 2019

Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model, 2018