BIT/CARE Framework Certification

Behavioral Intervention Teams (BIT) and Campus Assessment, Response & Evaluation (CARE) teams play a critical role in ensuring safety, support, and early intervention in schools, workplaces, and organizations. This two-part course equips you with the knowledge, skills, and protocols to effectively participate in or lead a BIT/CARE team.

Numerous fields of study, including psychology, education, and security studies, have looked at the issue of targeted and mission-oriented violence and have come to the same conclusion about the solution – diverse, multidisciplinary, collaborative teams that can identify concerning behaviors early and implement strategies to reduce the triggers for escalation and increase protective, supportive, and mitigating elements around the individual at risk.

DPrep Safety has developed 35 standards for these teams. The central building blocks for a BIT/CARE team are directly connected to these standards, which are divided into four categories, 1) team definition (the team’s purpose and scope of activities), 2) team operations (how the team is organized to meet team goals), 3) case processing (how the team manages a case through the initial report), 4) Continuous improvement (supporting the on-going functioning of the team and ensures the membership is supervised and trained and that processes are reviewed and maintained). The standards form a starting place that allows teams to better understand the logistics required to build and operate a BIT/CARE team based on best-practice research standards. Whether your team is well-trained or just starting out, this review of BIT/CARE core concepts provides the framework for an effective team.

• This course will meet over two sessions - attend one or both
• July 21 will cover team definition and operations
• August 11 will cover case processing and continuous improvement
• Each session will run from 12:00 - 5:00 ET with a one-hour break from 2:00 - 3:00
• Classes will be recorded and made available for those who are unable to attend a session due to scheduling conflicts
• Group rates are available
• Email bethany@dprep.com with questions

Your instructor, Brian Van Brunt, EdD, is the Director of Behavior and Threat Management for D-Prep Safety and the President of the Workplace Violence Prevention Association. Author of over a dozen books, Brian has spent time as a child and family therapist, university professor, assistant deputy director of training at Secure Community Network, partner at TNG, and president of the National Association for Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment (NABITA). He is an internationally recognized expert in behavioral intervention, threat assessment, crisis preparedness, mental illness, and instructional design. Brian has provided consulting services to schools, colleges, and universities across the country and abroad on a wide variety of topics related to student mental health, counseling, campus violence, and behavioral intervention.