Digital Threat Assessment®
The Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit (CSIU) and the Center for Safe Schools is pleased to announce a partnership with Safer Schools Together (SST) and the International Center for Digital Threat Assessment®. Through this partnership, we are proud to bring you live and on-demand trainings that will equip you with the latest skills and knowledge to address safety concerns.
Access Valid UNTIL March 2, 2028
Navigate the modern safety landscape in the early identification and assessment of individuals on the pathway to violence to address worrisome online behavior and trends amongst our youth. Support your team with current best practices to create safer, more connected environments through these vital trainings.
Session Information:
Date: May 12, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: Pocono Elementary Center
161 Tumbleweed Drive
Tannersville, PA 18372
Lunch will be provided.
Digital Threat Assessment® teaches participants to establish a Digital Behavioral Baseline through a Safety / Threat Assessment lens. By engaging with popular social media applications, you will learn how to find and document worrisome digital media content originating from your community. This training solidifies your understanding of how to effectively use DTA® as a critical part of any modern-day Threat Assessment.
This live training includes:
- To apply the principles of Behavioral Threat Assessment to DTA
- To identify the digital behavioral baseline of individuals on the pathway to violence
- To assess the language of online threat-related behavior
- Searching within commonly used platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat
- To utilize boolean operators, people search engines, and access cached data
- To validate the source of images and video
- Best practice for online navigation and ensuring privacy safeguards
- To use law enforcement guides to request user-identifying information (preservation and production orders)
- To crowdsource localized and time-relevant social media posts from your community and area
- The latest updates to stories, reels, hashtags, and IGTV
- To identify concerning trends and create awareness to ensure safety and mental wellbeing
- To gather public social media data with geolocation relevance—what are the most effective ways to identify potential witnesses in a public act of violence?
- To use social media to find a missing person
- To document your digital findings
Total Runtime: 2 hours [11 videos]
Digital Threat Assessment® teaches participants to establish a Digital Behavioral Baseline through a Safety / Threat Assessment lens. By engaging with popular social media applications, you will learn how to find and document worrisome digital media content originating from your community. This training solidifies your understanding of how to effectively use DTA® as a critical part of any modern-day Threat Assessment.
This on-demand training includes:
- To apply the principles of Behavioral Threat Assessment to DTA
- To identify the digital behavioral baseline of individuals on the pathway to violence
- To assess the language of online threat-related behavior
- Searching within commonly used platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat
- To utilize boolean operators, people search engines, and access cached data
- To validate the source of images and video
- Best practice for online navigation and ensuring privacy safeguards
- To use law enforcement guides to request user-identifying information (preservation and production orders)
- To crowdsource localized and time-relevant social media posts from your community and area
- The latest updates to stories, reels, hashtags, and IGTV
- To identify concerning trends and create awareness to ensure safety and mental wellbeing
- To gather public social media data with geolocation relevance—what are the most effective ways to identify potential witnesses in a public act of violence?
- To use social media to find a missing person
- To document your digital findings
CSTAG is an evidence-based behavioral threat assessment and management model designed specifically for schools, however, this blended program can also be used with non-students as well. This model focuses on using a problem-solving approach to prevent community violence.
Total Runtime: 1 hour [14 videos]
This on-demand training includes:
- Utilize the School Threat Assessment Decision Tree and Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) tools to better understand a threat-maker’s behavioral baseline
- Use social media to conduct and evaluate a safety plan for the threat-maker/target
- A review of the concept of leakage and its ties to social media
- A high-level overview of the most commonly used social media platforms (Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.) and best practice for searching within them
- Using Boolean Search Operators to identify a threat-makers public social media accounts
- Tools to determine whether a threat-maker has access to the means to carry out a threat, demonstrates a shift in digital behavioral baseline, or displays behaviors consistent with a threat
- How to effectively screenshot on mobile and computer devices
- Determine the authenticity of a photo or video, and next steps based on the results
Steps to Enroll:
For those interested in the on-demand Digital Threat Assessment® modules, please click the button below, where you will be invited to join an ICDTA® group. The password required to enter the group is icdta*1016. From there, you may create an ICDTA® account (or use an existing one) to access the module.
Once you have enrolled, you will have access to both the Digital Threat Assessment® and Integrating Digital Threat Assessment® into the CSTAG Model modules.
Note: If you already have an existing ICDTA® account, you will be asked to log in. Upon logging in, you will not be enrolled in the module but simply logged into your account. As such, you will not see the course in your account. Instead, please follow these steps:
- Log in to your ICDTA® account while keeping this tab open.
- Return to this page and click the Enroll Now button. Join the ICDTA® group and access both modules!