Mitigating Intent to Harm: Behavioral Threat Management
As school violence escalates, early detection, connection and communication of the warning signs is becoming an essential component of School Safety Plans.
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Required or Recommended: The Crucial Role of School Behavioral Threat Assessments
Large-scale attacks on our schools started accelerating exponentially in 2018. According to the K-12 Shooting Database, in 2023 alone there were a record 346 campus shooting incidents. And those grim statistics do not even include violence using knives, explosives or other non-firearm weapons. The deadliest attacks are known as targeted violence, and they rarely come out of the blue. In fact, individuals who commit targeted violence, as opposed to spontaneous or impulsive violence, typically exhibit some kind of concerning behavior days, weeks or sometimes even years before the attack itself.
Reactive to Proactive: Secure Passage School Behavioral Threat Assessment
“After-action reports contain missed opportunities to get in front of the incident—especially in matters regarding evolving behaviors. When analyzed, the risk is made clearer, but the challenge is coordinating information across the multiple disciplines and authorized stakeholders to connect the dots for a full picture,” said Lew Robinson, Secure Passage senior advisor and former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge.
Secure Passage (formerly known as Haystax) has developed the School Behavioral Threat Assessment (SBTA) solution to change the landscape of threat assessment by giving behavioral intervention teams a security-first, easy to use platform for assessment activity and case management. Designed with the Virginia K-12 Behavioral Threat and U.S. Secret Service NTAC models in mind, SBTA shows who is trending toward a crisis, before it begins.
Compliant with federal and state regulations, the Secure Passage Behavioral Threat Assessment solution breaks down communication barriers and provides a multidisciplinary, fact-based, systematic process designed to identify, assess, and manage potentially dangerous or violent situations.
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*Motivated to converge the physical and digital elements of our customer’s security journey, Haystax recently announced a name change to Secure Passage to better reflect our mission and further our objective to provide secure passage to customers, to architect security into all the products we build, and to deliver preeminent services and products.
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