*Please note all attendees are required to bring a fully charged laptop.
*Lunch is included with your registration.

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 a blend of BDTA™ theory, case study analysis, and application of key learnings into hands-on group-based activities.

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.

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 BDTA™ management lens.

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

Basic Threat and Risk Assessment | April 8, 2025 - Fort Nelson, BC