In partnership with mental health, law enforcement, and juvenile justice agencies, we provides Student Threat Assessment services to school districts.
In partnership with mental health, law enforcement, and juvenile justice agencies, the Student Threat Assessment Program, administered by ESD 112, provides Student Threat Assessment services to school districts.
Keep students who are at risk from committing violent acts in school.
Help protect other students and staff members from potential violence.
Provide a comprehensive, multidimensional tool for schools to assess students who may pose a threat.
Provide a student-specific safety plan utilizing community resources to mitigate the threat of violence.
Standardize the process for addressing students who pose a threat in schools that participate in student threat assessment.
Involve parents in the threat assessment process.
Document the program’s effectiveness in dealing with students who make threats of violence, including student academic and behavioral success.
Work in collaboration with community partners to coordinate resources for the safety and well being of youth, families and communities.
Assess threats of potentially harmful or lethal behavior and determine the level of concern and action required.
Organize resources and strategies to manage situations involving students that pose threats to other students and/or staff.
Reduce the number of expulsions for students who can be maintained safely in the school environment.
To provide a comprehensive, multidimensional system to assist schools in addressing students who pose a threat for committing acts of violence and to provide these students with options for intervention.
Preparation of timely written threat assessment summaries following the Level II assessment process.
Parents and school staff complete a questionnaire/interview form that asks for important information about the student’s behavior, strengths and challenges. A safety and support plan is developed based on the screening information that is gathered and/or a referral is made for a Level II Assessment.
The threat assessment team expands to include community resources. Community team members may be from law enforcement, mental health service, juvenile court, and the Department of Children and Family Services. This team is specifically trained in the Threat Assessment process. They provides support, additional resources, and help develop a plan for the student with the goal of increasing safety for the student and school community.
Our staff has a unique skill set of experience in mental health, prevention and intervention, and special education. We are well connected to local community experienced district administration resources.
Provides informative Level I consultations and training for school administrators.
Shifts the threat assessment focus to more school support at Level I to empower school staff to handle difficult situations.
Further equips building staff with more evaluative tools, and piloted both sexual incident screening and self-harm/suicide screening protocols.
Integrates county mental health case management (Community Network Board, Child Protective Team, and the Regional Support Network), which leverages additional resources for students.
Facilitates information sharing among districts by tracking and notifying district safety officers of high risk students moving between districts.
Please contact your threat assessment coordinator to obtain forms.
Are you a district administrator?
“Fillable” forms can be completed electronically and saved. Or simply print the form and fill it in by hand.
iPad Users: Fillable forms are available on your iPad using the free Adobe Reader App, available from the iTunes Store. Once downloaded you will see an option to “Open With Adobe Reader” which will allow you to fill in the boxes and send via email to your account.
For step-by-step directions, please refer to the QuickGuide.