Basic Threat and Risk Assessment

In this session, trainers provide techniques for identifying and assessing individuals who engage in behaviours consistent with a threat. Trainers also provide School Safety / Threat Assessment (SS/TA) teams with the tools to complete a thorough data collection and assessment process.

This training includes current best practices for interviewing, intervention planning, progress monitoring and management. The delivery is a blend of Threat and Risk Assessment theory, case study analysis, and application of key learnings into hands-on group-based activities. Participants will obtain the skills and knowledge vital for proactively and effectively identifying, assessing, and responding to worrisome and/or threat-related behaviour through a Threat and Risk Assessment management lens.

Overview:

The first step in the threat and risk assessment process is to evaluate a Subject of Concern (SOC) to determine whether they pose a risk. An initial screener is utilized to assist S/TA teams identify whether a SOC demonstrates an intent to harm themselves or others. In this session, trainers provide techniques for identifying and assessing individuals who engage in behaviours consistent with a threat. Trainers also provide S/TA teams with the tools to complete a thorough data collection and assessment process. This training includes current best practice for interviewing, intervention planning, progress monitoring and management. The delivery is Threat and Risk Assessment theory, case study analysis, and application of key learnings into hands-on group-based activities.

Learning Outcomes:

• Conducting an initial assessment and a comprehensive multidisciplinary data collection
• How to develop a threat intervention & management plan
• Establishing a Multidisciplinary/Multiagency Threat Assessment team
• Best practices for responding to threats
• Understanding the significance of data collection in the six domains (Individual, Family, Peer, School, Community and Digital)
• How Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) initiatives and social-emotional learning in schools positively impacts school culture, climate, and connectedness
• Locker/Bedroom/Digital/Vehicle dynamics - best practices when conducting searches
• How to conduct digital searches on open-source platforms, language analysis, proper documentation, and centralized reporting
• Defining concerning, prohibited, and worrisome behaviours
• Understanding implicit bias, and cultural triggers as they relate to the threat and risk assessment process
• Defining thresholds for Law Enforcement investigations
• Understanding sexual age of consent, sexting, sextortion and gender-based violence establishing assessment procedures, including best practices for interviewing, intervention planning, progress monitoring and managing threats

**Note: This training does not meet the prerequisites for Advanced Digital Threat Assessment Training.