Summary/Overview  

Behavioral Safety Assessment Team (BSAT) training is a two-day, in person comprehensive training that focuses on building a sustainable, community-based violence prevention, threat management, and behavioral safety assessment system composed of school site-based Level 1 teams and a community-based Level 2 team.

Level 1 teams should include school administrators, school-based mental health professionals (e.g., school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, or school-based therapists), school resource officers/law enforcement, and special education staff as needed. Level 2 team additionally include district-level administrators, community mental health providers, representatives from juvenile justice and law enforcement agencies, DHS, and other community agencies available to support the team.

This session is for school staff and community partners supporting school safety and mental health in Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath counties. Registration approval is required.

This training provides the following:

• All of the forms, directions, and protocols necessary to implement a comprehensive preventive behavioral safety assessment system
• A review of the basic concepts of violence prevention and behavioral safey 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 within in K-12 schools
• The use of preventive behavioral safety 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
• ​Practice conducting a Level 1 assessment as a team through case study exercises
• 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

Date(s) & Time(s):

March 14,15th 2024 8am- 3pm

Location: Southern Oregon University, -Stevenson Union, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland, Or
1 Hour lunch-On your own

Parking: please be aware of parking limitations and fees in lots.  Street parking available.