Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG) Workshop The
workshop for school threat assessment teams runs approximately 6.5
hours of presentation time, not including breaks. There is a short
pre-training and post-training evaluation form that allows us to give
teams an evaluation report after the workshop. Before the workshop,
we provide a 60+ page PDF that has workshop slides, threat assessment
forms, and case exercises that teams can copy and provide to all
participants AND to any other school staff in their school system. We
also provide each attendee with a copy of the 2018 publication of
Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines – a $50 value. Who
should attend? A typical team will include a school administrator
(e.g., principal or assistant principal), one or more mental health
professionals (such as a school psychologist, counselor, and social
worker), and a law enforcement officer (often a school resource
officer). Depending on school staffing patterns, some schools will
choose to include teachers, a school nurse, or others who have
expertise working with troubled students. What is covered in the CSTAG
workshop? Rationale for threat assessment Misconceptions about the
nature and scope of school violence Ineffective responses to school
violence - zero tolerance discipline and excessive security measures
Public health approach to prevention using a multi-tiered model -
prevention, not prediction of violence Case study of a school shooting
that illustrates the need for threat assessment How to conduct a
threat assessment FBI and Secret Service/Department of Education
principles of threat assessment Development of the Virginia model,
including the decision tree and interview process (including practice
interview) How to identify and resolve transient threats How to
identify and resolve substantive threats Mental health assessments
- when, why, and how Cases studies illustrating the three pathways to
violence Conflict pathway Antisocial pathway Psychotic pathway
Research support for threat assessment Brief and non-technical
overview of the field tests, controlled studies, and large-scale
implementation study Benefits of threat assessment - low rates of
threats being carried out, reductions in school suspension, reductions
in racial/ethnic disparities in discipline, improvements in school
climate Legal and practical issues Confidentiality and the need to
warn potential victims, the Tarasoff case, what FERPA permits schools
to do Liability - how threat assessment provides protection Team
exercises to resolve transient and substantive threats of violence
Next steps in implementing threat assessment at your school Free
online training Orientation for students, parents, and staff Questions
and answers on implementation More information can be found at
schoolta.com.
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