Description
This Macro Module will provide you with the tools vital for proactively and effectively identifying, assessing, and responding to worrisome and/or threat-related behavior through a Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment® (BDTA) management lens.
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 Macro Module Includes:
- 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 impacts 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