Schools trained in threat assessment

Alabama, Alaska, arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, mississippi, missouri, New Hampshire, new Jersey, New York, north carolina, North Dakota, new hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, texas, utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, wyoming. Also Canadian provinces of Alberta and Manitoba. see our Partial map of workshops here.

We continually evaluate and improve our training program. Our study of 100 workshops led by 9 different trainers showed that participants gave consistently positive evaluations. Moreover, they demonstrated large increases in knowledge from pre-training to post-training. Notably, these positive results were found across occupational groups - school administrators, law enforcement officers, mental health professionals, and teachers. Read some participant comments below.

• Very informative training! Lots of useful tools to use & implement.

• I've learned a lot. Thank you so much for an informative training.

• This was a good presentation and the presenter was nice. knowledgeable, and engaging.

• Great training! Loved it :)

• Fantastic, practical presentation

• Loved the workshop and presenter! Thank you!

• Excellent PowerPoint! Best one yet

• The best PD session I've ever been to!!

• I really enjoyed the break out groups and being able to work with many different professionals and gain different insight. The many different case studies helped give great examples of situations and how to address these situations. It was a very well done presentation.

• Very detailed and informative training. All the materials were very relevant and able to use within the schools. Thank you.

• The mindset behind this program makes a lot of sense to me and will be very helpful in guiding me as I deal with threat assessment.

• Great presentation—I feel much more informed and confident with respect to assessing potential threats. Thank you for your time and expertise! Also your personal experiences were very interesting!

• I am expecting to implement much of the training today immediately. Thank you for this important professional development!

• Great job. I didn’t think I’d be able to keep focused for that long, but it was engaging, funny and well balanced.

• This is a comprehensive training/program that corresponds with the restorative justice/more progressive models of behavior management that research supports schools can implement to improve school climate and culture  It is also clear and provides clear guidance in helping with problem-solving/decision-making processes.

• I am a parent of a student … in the building … when a classmate killed x and injured x others. It has changed him and me as a mom and as a teacher. I want to know how I can protect my own students from ever going through what he experienced, I want to protect my school community from dealing with what my hometown is dealing with. I think about [it] and if ____ had a team in place to do an assessment, what may have gone differently…. I like that I have tools that I can use to help make my school community more secure.