This comprehensive training focuses on building a sustainable, community-based violence prevention and behavioral safety (threat) assessment system. This training will focus on school site-based Level 1 teams, which should include school administrators, mental health support staff (e.g., school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, and school-based therapists), school resource officers or other law enforcement partners, and special education staff as needed.

The 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 threat 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 threat 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
• The application of threat assessment concepts and research in a site-based protocol, called a Level, as well as the Level 1 ancillary documents
• Instruction on the use of and practice with the Level 1 protocol