This virtual event highlights key insights from the National Threat Assessment Center’s newest publication, which focuses on how education practitioners can best align behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) programs alongside multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) in K-12 schools. Presenters discuss how aligning and integrating BTAM with MTSS creates a more comprehensive, proactive approach to prevention and intervention and leads to a safer school environment and better outcomes for students and staff.

This webinar explores how schools and correctional facilities can better support children of incarcerated parents. Panelists discuss how educators can recognize and address their own implicit biases; create affirming spaces for children of incarcerated parents; and provide educational support for children, caregivers, and families of incarcerated parents. 

This session assists participants in identifying how school and community violence intervention (CVI) partnerships use school and community data - along with relationships between students, families, and school staff - to create a Safe Passage program. Safe Passage programs place trained and trusted adults in locations around the school where violence is prevalent. During the webinar, CVI experts share best practices and lessons learned from their own Safe Passage experiences and offer recommendations for communities looking to establish similar strategies.

This webinar showcases steps taken to support students most likely to be disconnected from school prior to graduation. Leaders from Spokane Public Schools share key components, impacts, and lessons learned from the RISE Mentoring program, which engages youth with school conduct issues that would otherwise result in a suspension or expulsion.

This webinar covers trends, impacts, and essential elements of effective solutions to bullying and harassing behavior. It includes a panel discussion that highlights strategies schools are using to prevent bullying behavior and provide supports to involved students to enhance their sense of safety and teach prosocial coping skills.