FREE Campus Threat Assessment Training Sessions

The US Department of Justice, Office of Community Policing Services (COPS Office) is sponsoring free one-day training seminars on campus threat assessment and threat management.  Course content includes: 

• Guiding principles of campus threat assessment
• Steps in the campus threat assessment and management process (including how to investigate, evaluate, prioritize, and manage cases)
• Information-sharing and other legal concerns
• Strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of a campus threat assessment team
• Table-top exercise on a case situation, and other participant exercises

These seminars are appropriate for higher ed personnel in the areas of campus administration; campus security and law enforcement; counseling; judicial affairs; legal counsel; student affairs; faculty; risk management; human resources; and students.

Faculty for these sessions include Dr. Gene Deisinger and Dr. Marisa Randazzo (co-authors of The Handbook for Campus Threat Assessment & Management Teams), higher education attorney Jeffrey Nolan, and campus public safety experts Dr. Gary Margolis and Steven Healy.

The regional one-day training seminars will be offered on the following dates/cities:

• Atlanta, GA on December 2, 2010
• Phoenix, AZ on January 11, 2011
• Tallahassee, FL on February 8, 2011.

For information on how to register, or for more details about the training sessions, please click here.