K-12 Behavioral Threat Assessment

&

Management Training

SIGMA (an Ontic Company)

May 26, 2022

8:30am - 4:00pm

Via Zoom

The School Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management (BTAM) basic training is based upon research and best practices in the area of school threat assessment. SIGMA team members have extensive experience in working threat assessment cases and co-authored the U.S. Secret Service / U.S. Department of Education model of school threat assessment
The one-day basic training workshop covers the following topics:

• Introduction
• Understanding School Violence and Implications for Prevention
• What is School Threat Assessment?
• Developing and Operating a School Threat Assessment Program
• Steps in the Threat Assessment Process
• Tabletop Exercise - screening, inquiry/investigation/assessing and analyzing
• Developing and Implementing Case Management Plans
• Tabletop Exercise - identifying resources and creating the management plan
• Other Things We Can Do
• Summary / Q&A"

"Course Objectives:"
"At the end of the course, participants will:
•    Understand major facts about school violence and how prevention is possible.
•    Be familiar with the principles of behavioral threat assessment and why schools should use it.
•    Know how to build a threat assessment program using the 8 Steps
•    Gain practice using threat assessment procedures through multiple tabletop exercises
•    Understand how to work a threat assessment case, including
•    How to screen cases to see if a threat assessment is warranted
•    How to gather information from multiple sources
•    How to analyze the information using 11-Key Questions
•    How to make an assessment
•    If needed, how to develop a case management plan to reduce risk

We highly recommend that school/district BTAM teams attend the training together. Critical team members include administrators (principals/assistant principals/deans), school psychologists, counselors, and social workers, school resource officers, and law enforcement. Other important professionals can also include behavioral interventionists, special education professionals/case managers, nurses, and community mental health professionals providing services in the schools and/or
who may help with work threat assessment cases."

"SIGMA Threat Management Associates is a team of nationally and internationally recognized experts in behavioral threat assessment and threat management.  SIGMA’s team members have over 250 years of collective experience and expertise in assessing and managing thousands of cases involving threats and other potentially dangerous behavior. SIGMA’s experts gained their threat assessment experience through careers in federal, state, and local law enforcement, education, criminal justice, mental health, and the law. The work of SIGMA team members in threat assessment research and practice is referenced throughout several U.S. national standards and federal guides and has helped to define best practices in behavioral threat assessment and threat management. Due to our depth of experiences and expertise, SIGMA provides threat assessment and violence prevention services to businesses, K-12 and higher educational institutions, government agencies, military units, law enforcement and security professionals, and prominent individuals and family offices. Our professional bios can be found at:
https://www.sigmatma.com/about/sigma-experts/"

By joining us at this event, attendees consent to Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network's Detroit Wayne Connect photographing, videotaping and using your image and likeness.

-SOCIAL WORKERS: continuing education credits are approved for this training.

-CMHP: This training meets the MDHHS requirement for Children's Mental Health Professionals.

-QUALIFIED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (QMHP): These event hours meet the MDCH training requirement for QMHP staff.

-TRAINING HOURS: This event will count toward the annual training hours required by most provider agencies.

If you have individual requirements or need special services to participate in this training, please notify Tinetra Burns at (313) 344-9099 or tburns@dwihn.org. Please make arrangements at least two weeks before the event date.

If you work WITHIN Wayne County please dismiss the payment portion of the registration process and hit "submit".

If you work OUTSIDE of Wayne County there is a nominal $15.00 registration fee to attend this training. Please pay prior to your arrival by entering your credit card information when the registration process asks for it. You may also bring a company check or money order for the full amount with you to the registration table at the event as well. All checks/money orders can be made out to ‘DWIHN’. Receipts will be available upon request.