Schools typically have few resources to dedicate to securing their campuses, let alone monitoring student behavior. But the behaviors and actions leading up to shootings or other violent incidents can ...

Each devastating school shooting sparks the instinct to “do something,” notes Jameson Ritter, a certified threat manager and security expert in Minneapolis. But too often, that “something” turns into ...

The American Hospital Association (AHA), in collaboration with the FBI, has released a series of behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) resources developed in partnership with the FBI’s ...

In behavioral intervention, threat assessment, and case management, it can feel like you just upgraded your technology, only for the next big release to drop. The needs of practitioners and the ...

A new research report found nearly every public K-12 school or district in the United States used a behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) team or an equivalent during the 2024-2025 school ...

At NABITA, we are often asked whether a Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT), CARE team, Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) team, or, in some instances, the Threat Assessment Team (TAT) ...

In the 20 years since a teen carried out the deadliest school shooting in Minnesota at Red Lake High School, authorities have learned more about warning signs before violence. The Minnesota Bureau of ...

When ten school districts and a regional career center in Wood County, Ohio, set out to strengthen school safety, they didn’t begin by adding more cameras or metal detectors. Instead, they are ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Two Ohio lawmakers want to develop a statewide web portal where school administrators could access student behavioral threat assessments generated by other school districts.