Basic Risk and Threat Assessment | May 22, 2024 - Vancouver, BC

*Please note all attendees are required to bring a fully charged laptop.

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. 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

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. 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.

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

*Lunch is included with your registration.