Event Description

Conducting Threat Assessment and Management within the Schools: developing your community based, Level 2 assessment and management support team

Who should attend: School administrators, school counselors, school resource officers, law enforcement partners, school based mental health/assessment practitioners, administrators and practitioners from community mental health, representatives from juvenile services and law enforcement, other community agencies. Registrants must have successfully completed the Level 1 Behavior Safety Assessment Training.

The training will provide the following:

• A brief review of the basic concepts of preventive behavioral threat assessment and management
• A review of youth violence, examining research and best practice prescriptive recommendations for assessment and management
• The use of preventive behavioral threat assessment to decrease expulsions, arrests, and dismantle the school to prison pipeline
• A brief review of the site-based protocol, called a Level 1, currently in place within the regional school districts
• The application of threat assessment concepts and research in a community-based protocol, called a Level 2. Direct instruction on conducting Level 2 assessments
• 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.
• A brainstorming process to adapt the Level 2 team to those available resources.
• Case study exercises as example of application
• Q and A

 
Bio:
 
Courtenay McCarthy is the lead school psychologist in student preventive behavioral threat assessment and management for Salem-Keizer Public Schools, is chair of the Mid-Valley Student Threat Assessment Team and is a member of the Marion County Threat Advisory Team. While partnering with John Van Dreal, she has refined the Salem-Keizer student threat assessment system to reflect leading practice in behavioral threat assessment, violence prevention, early intervention, and equitable practices. Courtenay has over two decades of experience in prevention, threat assessment and management, psychoeducational evaluation, intervention with at-risk youth and families, and behavioral consultation and intervention. As a certified threat manager and nationally certified school psychologist, she regularly provides training and consultation on student threat assessment systems implementation and youth violence to school districts and community agencies throughout the nation. She also provides workshops, symposiums, and content presentations to national audiences. In addition, Courtenay is a contributing author to the book, Assessing Student Threats: Implementing the Salem-Keizer System – Second Edition (Van Dreal, et al. 2017).

Location
MESD Ainsworth Building
11611 NE Ainsworth Circle
Portland, OR 97220

Site
Auditorium

Fee
Free

Prerequisites:
Participants must have completed BSAT Level 1 training, prior to taking BSAT Level 2.

Contact Information
Leslie Taylor
5035053769
Ltaylor4@mesd.k12.or.us

Start: Wednesday September 24th, 2025 at 08:00 am
End: Wednesday September 24th, 2025 at 04:00 pm
PDUs: 7.00
Instructor: Courtenay McCarthy
Prerequisites: Participants must have completed BSAT Level 1 training, prior to taking BSAT Level 2.