Webinar: Considerations for Behavioral Threat Assessment in Schools

Description

This course (1 hour Live Webinar, Synchronous Distance Learning) will be focused on behavioral threat assessments in the school setting.

Webinar Description:

Behavioral threat assessment (BTA) was developed to prevent targeted attacks, such as school shootings. However, there are concerns about the use of BTA in schools, including as it relates to student mental health and disparities around race/ethnicity and special education status. This session details results of a key informant roundtable, conducted with 17 stakeholders in school mental health, public health, and education. Considerations for BTA from the roundtable include student privacy, resources for implementation, its current conceptualization in schools, police involvement, equity for historically marginalized populations, experiences and understandings of BTA outcomes, and the critical role of school social workers and other mental health professionals on BTA teams. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to list at least three considerations for implementing behavioral threat assessments in K-12 schools.

2. Participants will be able to describe two recommendations for implementing threat assessment in K-12 schools. 

3. Participants will be able to describe the role of school social workers in behavioral threat assessment in K-12 schools. 

Speakers:

Ricardo Canelo is the Associate Project Coordinator for the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network Coordinating Office (NCO), based at Stanford University School of Medicine. Ricardo helps coordinate the work of 12 centers that provide training and technical assistance to the mental health workforce to increase the use of evidence-based mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery support services across the United States. 

Jessica E. Gonzalez, MSW has worked in the community as a social worker providing mental health services in school and outpatient clinic settings to youth of diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Jessica also has over 6 years of experience in project management support and coordination for research and evaluation in the areas of early childhood learning and development, special education, post-secondary education attainment, and delivery of school mental health services. 

Dr. Heather Gotham has significant experience in clinical teaching and training behavioral health and health care students and professionals. She has designed curricula and provided training and technical assistance to behavioral health and health professionals on treatments for adult and adolescent substance use disorders, implementing EBPs into behavioral health settings, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and treatment, integrating behavioral and primary health, and SBIRT. 

Content Level: Beginning

Target Audience: School Social Workers

Refund policy: No refunds will be given if you are unable to attend the live webinar.

School Social Work Association of America, 1789, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. School Social Work Association of America maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 7/27/2023-7/27/2026. 

Many state licensing boards impose specific limitations on course content, distance education, or other elements of continuing education, even when courses are taken from approved providers. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that the courses taken will meet the requirements for your license.

Social workers completing this course receive 1 CE continuing education credit. Certificates will be emailed to participants upon successful completion of the webinar and completion of the course evaluation. Participants must stay the entire length of the webinar and complete the evaluation to receive credit. No assignments will be required for this course. System Requirements-- Participants must have a computer and audio to participate in the webinar. Attending by phone is strongly discouraged and may result in not receiving CEs. Accessibility Accommodations are offered upon request, please reach out to PDlearning@sswaa.org . For questions or concerns please contact Capella Hauer at contactus@sswaa.org or Dr. JR Bullard-Batiste at PDlearning@sswaa.org