Theresa Campbell
President & Chief Executive Officer
Theresa Campbell is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of Safer Schools Together (SST), an organization focused on promoting a climate and culture of safety in schools. Theresa established SST in 2008 to provide law enforcement agencies, school districts, and community partners with comprehensive violence prevention/intervention training. In 2018, she expanded her role to include CEO and founder of the International Centre for Digital Threat Assessment (ICDTA). Previously, Theresa served as the Executive Director of the International Centre for Threat Assessment (ICTA).
As a Subject Matter Expert in School Based Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment, violence prevention, and trauma response, Theresa regularly consults on high-profile cases throughout North America. She has worked extensively with the Federal Behavioral Sciences Unit on high profile and complex threat situations, continues to provide support and training to the National Youth Officer Training Division in Canada and has also provided curriculum for the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) Basic and Advanced SRO Courses. She is also a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP).
Theresa has conceptualized, developed, and implemented many successful and innovative evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies and programs and played a pivotal role in the implementation of a School Based Threat Assessment Model: Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA) based on the NTAC model, FBI four-pronged assessment, and the work of Mr. Kevin Cameron. Ms. Campbell also designed and implemented a multi-tiered training program for the British Columbia Provincial Expect Respect and a Safe Education (erase) initiative, which included the implementation of threat assessment policies, protocols, training, tools and resources for multidisciplinary teams. Theresa also developed a risk assessment screening tool (RAS) based on the five development domains and a school culture, a climate assessment tool (Safe & Caring School Tool), and in 2000 she developed one of the first Anonymous Online Student Reporting tools in North America (PSSTWorld).
Ms. Campbell has authored many training resources/publications/guides that are being used throughout North America, some of which are: Basic Threat Assessment, Advanced Threat Assessment, Train the Trainer (Basic Threat Assessment), Fundamentals of Digital Threat Assessment®, Basic Digital Threat Assessment®, Advanced Digital Threat Assessment®, Digital Threat Assessment®: Train the Trainer, Basic Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment® (BDTA), Advanced Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment® (BDTA), Communicating Through Crisis – Navigating Critical Incidents, Trauma Informed Schools, Classrooms and Communities, School Police Guidelines for Threat Assessment, Emergency Guidelines for Schools, Utilizing a Case Study Approach for Professional Learning, Ensuring Safe and Caring School Communities, Targeted Hate and Racism through a Restorative Approach, and Gang Reduction through Informed Practice (GRIP).
Theresa is the executive producer of five award-winning prevention documentaries and serves as a representative on municipal, provincial, and federal committees. She has been recognized for her work by all levels of Government throughout North America (i.e. awarded the prestigious Frederic Milton Thrasher Award for superior service in gang prevention, facilitated a round-table discussion in Surrey and Ottawa with previous Prime Minister Stephen Harper about threat assessment, youth violence and gang-related issues, and served as co-chair at the 16th World Congress: International Society for Criminology held in Kobe, Japan). Ms. Campbell was nominated for the YWCA Women of Distinction Award, Premier’s Partnership Award, Award of Excellence – Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Award of Excellence and Recognition – Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU), and Social Trailblazer Award.
Through Ms. Campbell’s remarkable leadership, SST continues to provide best practice and evidence-based multi-tiered training, consultation, and support to schools and districts across North America through the delivery of core services such as Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment® (BDTA) training, Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) training, Worrisome Online Behavior™ (WOB) reporting, and 24/7 Threat Assessment Support/Consultation. In addition, SST has provided training/case consultation in Mexico, Thailand, China, Germany and the United Kingdom.
