Preventing The Next School Shooting: How To Protect Your Community Through Assessment, Intervention & Planning

Description  Challenge - Preventing campus attacks How to assess, intervene and hopefully prevent a school shooting through the timely, consistent, and effective identification of risk and protective factors observable by the larger community.  Key Takeaway Participants will learn how to effectively prevent school shootings through a research-based, effective approach to threat assessment built upon multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams that identify, assess, and manage risk before an attack. While no one can predict when the next attack will occur, there is important and timely research on preventing these attacks by addressing behaviors through early intervention and the threat management approach.  Overview During the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a national drop in the number of school shootings and mass violence. The decline was close to zero events and gave many educators, counselors, and threat assessment experts a hopeful moment that the epidemic of violen