Upcoming Virtual Trainings Of Note

Enhancing School Safety Using Behavioral Threat Assessment

Description: In this virtual training event, the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) researchers highlight the key findings and implications from our research on school violence prevention. In this training, you will learn about the background, thinking, and behavior of school attackers and how some schools discovered and stopped plots before violence occurred. This training will provide guidance on how schools may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model.

Intended Audience: School teachers, administrators, counsellors, mental health professionals, school resource officers (SROs), law enforcement officers, and other school safety stakeholders.

MGT-324-C: Campus Emergencies Prevention, Response, and Recovery

The goal of this course is to assist the campus community and neighboring jurisdictions in developing

the necessary decision-making skills to prevent, protect, mitigate the effects of, respond to, and recover

from a an active shooter situation or other campus emergency. More information on this course can be found here.

*Note: This course is an eight hour-long course delivery over two consecutive days. Each day is

four hours long.

AWR-219-C: Site Protection through Observational Techniques

This course trains law enforcement, emergency responders and other public safety personnel to improve

their observational techniques by using a four-step ongoing screening process that includes increasing

protective awareness, identifying pre-operational behavior, evaluating and taking action. More information

on this course can be found here

AWR-409: Recognizing and Identifying Domestic and Homegrown Violent Extremism (8 hours)

This course introduces participants to the differences between domestic violent extremism (DVE) and homegrown violent extremism (HVE), indicators of violent extremist behavior, characteristics of recruitment and radicalization, and the legal safeguards that protect civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy. Additionally, the course covers social media as it relates to extremism, ways to improve responder safety, and techniques to counter violent extremist threats through interagency and community partnerships. More information on the course can be found here

Preventing Mass Attacks in Our Communities

Description: In this virtual training event, NTAC researchers discuss important findings from our research on mass attacks perpetrated in public and semi-public spaces, including businesses, restaurants, bars, retail outlets, houses of worship, schools, open spaces, and more. This training will provide guidance on how communities may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model.

Intended Audience: Law enforcement, corporate security, mental health professionals, faith-based community leaders, university faculty, threat assessment team members, and other community safety stakeholders.