Behavioral Threat Assessment (K-12)

  1. Schoolsafety.gov
    1. Threat Assessment and Reporting
  2. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
    1. School Safety
    2. Pathway to Violence: Warning Signs and What You Can Do
  3. National Threat Assessment Center
    1. Enhancing School Safety Using A Threat Assessment Model: An Operational Guide for Preventing Targeted School Violence
    2. Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence
    3. The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
    4. Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates
    5. Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence: Information Students Learn May Prevent a Targeted Attack
  4. Illinois Terrorism Task Force School Safety Working Group
    1. Recommendations of the Illinois Terrorism Task Force School Safety Working Group
    2. Response and Investigative Suggestions for School Threats
    3. Communications Tips for School Threats
  5. The Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines
    1. Forms for Conducting School Threat Assessments
    2. Overview of the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG)
  6. Texas School Safety Center Threat Assessment Toolkit
  7. Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence 2nd Edition
  8. Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools
  9. The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective
  10. Threat Assessment at School
  11. Threat Assessment: Predicting and Preventing School Violence
  12. Sigma Threat Assessment and Management Services
  13. Marisa Randazzo – Understanding and Preventing School Shootings in the U.S. (YouTube Video)
  14. Association of Threat Assessment Professionals
  15. National Association of School Psychologists
    1. Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) Best Practice Considerations for K-12 Schools
    2. Protecting Students’ Rights in BTAM
    3. Effective BTAM: Critical Information for School Safety Teams Townhall
  16. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
  17. Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing the Threat of Targeted Attacks
  18. Sandy Hook Promise
    1. Know the Signs Program
  19. A Study of the Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters in the United States Between 2000 and 2013
  20. REMS TA Center
    1. Active Shooter Situations: Preventing an Active Shooter Situation
    2. Forming a School Behavioral Threat Assessment Team Webinar
  21. If You See Something, Say Something
    1. Recognize Suspicious Activity
    2. Get Involved
    3. Campaign Materials
      1. Indicators of Suspicious Activity Pocket Card