Behavior Assessment & Intervention Teams – On-Demand Training

Refine Your Campus-wide Efforts to Report, Assess & Defuse Unusual or Suspicious Behavior

Institutions continue to seek guidance on how to best manage their campus behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams, including the development of a comprehensive training process, team operations, response protocols, documentation processes, funding, and delegation of authority.

Our expert presenter – Dr. Meggen Sixbey, Assistant Director at the University of Florida’s Police Department and Master Trainer in Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management for the Department of Homeland Security – provides strategic areas for consideration regarding the real issues and concerns encountered by the teams backed in benchmarking, literature and consultation with threat assessment professionals.

You’ll be better able to identify, assess and defuse potentially threatening situations. Engage campus constituents regarding threat assessment and management so they can recognize trigger incidents and patterns of behavior – and report suspicious activity or behavior that could threaten the campus community.

Topics Covered

As a result of this on-line training participants will be able to:

• Increase awareness of potential threats or observable behavior that may be an indication of thoughts of harm to self or others – effectively intervene in these difficult situations proactively, compassionately, and effectively, with an integrated campus approach.
• Develop an understanding of a threat assessment and management process – create a coordinated effort to help eliminate the escalation of incidents.
• Engage proactive strategies for interacting and engaging with campus constituents regarding threat assessment and management – educate your campus community on proactive behaviors including reporting suspicious activity and unusual behavior that could threaten the campus community.
• With your unique campus in mind, develop a process for initiating and/or refining a campus threat assessment and intervention team – develop a comprehensive training process, identify team operations, and review response documentation protocols to ensure a seamless approach to campus safety.
• Implement best practices for intervention – gain proven ideas for building an infrastructure that can address key issues with faculty and staff, as well as students.
• Understand the scope of the current student mental health challenges – be prepared so you can respond proactively and quickly when the need arises.

Presenter

Dr. Meggen Tucker Sixbey is the Assistant Director at the University of Florida's Police Department, overseeing the Behavior Services Division and is a Master Trainer in Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management for the Department of Homeland Security. 
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