Community Threat Assessment and Management Training

May 29-30, 2024
Willamette University
900 State Street, Salem, OR 97301

Developed over two decades ago by John Van Dreal at Salem-Keizer Public Schools in collaboration with public mental health professionals, law enforcement professionals, juvenile justice services professionals, and education service district professionals. It has become a national model for multi-disciplinary, multi-agency student threat assessment.

The training will provide the following:

• All of the forms, directions, and protocols necessary to implement a comprehensive preventive behavioral threat assessment system
• A review of the basic concepts of violence prevention and behavioral threat assessment and management
• A review of youth violence, examining research and best practice prescriptive recommendations for assessment and management
• A review of the dynamics and risk factors for reactive aggression, teen dating aggression, and targeted violence.
• The use of preventive behavioral threat assessment, equity, inclusion, restorative practice, and trauma-informed care to decrease expulsions, arrests, and dismantle the school to prison pipeline
• An examination of bias and how to avoid it through collaborative assessment and training
• The application of threat assessment concepts and research in a site-based protocol, called a Level 1.
• The application of threat assessment concepts and research in a community-based protocol, called a Level 2
• Direct instruction on conducting Level 2 assessments
• A review of a centralized and community-based Level 2 threat assessment system as support to each school district’s Level 1 teams and as a regional resource
• A review of local and regional resources and implementation issues within each school district as well as available youth-serving agency support for a community-based, Level 2 team
• A brainstorming process to adapt the Level 2 team to those available resources
• Case study exercises as example of application
• Q and A