New Jersey Department of Education

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Advanced K-12 Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Training (In-person) - Union

Promoting Safety in NJ Schools

Date(s) & Time(s) January 20, 2023   ~  8:30 am - 3:00 pm
Workshop Description The New Jersey Department of Education is pleased to present School Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) training designed to prevent active shooter incidents and other targeted violence in our schools and school districts.
This full-day advanced course reviews best practice procedures in school-based behavioral threat assessment and management. The training provides participants with opportunities to put threat assessment procedures into practice through multiple tabletop exercises. The course will enhance knowledge of threat assessment and threat management skills through discussion of complex case studies and group exercises.

The training covers the following topics:

- Review of facts about targeted violence, including recent Secret Service and FBI research
- Review of best-practice procedures for threat assessment & threat management
- Planning and conducting interviews in threat assessment cases
- Case studies of targeted violence and averted incidents
- Strategies for Interviewing in threat assessment cases
- Multiple tabletop exercises using threat assessment procedures, following cases from the initial report to threat management intervention strategies
- Interaction with instructors throughout the class

The training is intended for those who will serve on the school-based behavioral threat assessment team, including personnel from any of the following:

- School district leadership, administrators, and school principals
- School Safety Specialists
- School psychologists, counselors, and social workers
- School staff members
- Special education personnel
- Schools resource officers and law enforcement officials

Please Note: To attend this training you must have completed the Basic K-12 Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Training.

School Safety Specialists who complete this training will receive appropriate hours toward recertification.

If you have any questions, please contact the New Jersey Office of School Preparedness and Emergency Planning at school.security@doe.nj.gov or (609) 376-3574.

Location Rahway 7th & 8th Grade Academy
1139 Kline Pl.
Rahway, NJ 07065
Registration Registration Closed
Contact Information Karen Carella
Office of School Preparedness & Emergency Planning
200 Riverview Plaza
Trenton, NJ 08625
609-376-3574

>> school.security@doe.nj.gov


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