This Week in School and Campus Safety

Good morning,

This Weekly Update by the Illinois School and Campus Safety Program links to back to school safety information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, provides a final chance to register for the Threat Assessment Team Training class in Freeport on Aug. 29-30th, and promotes the upcoming classes on grooming and sexual assault awareness, Digital Threat Assessment®, and Advanced Digital Threat Assessment®.

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Respectfully,

Laura Black

le-black@wiu.edu

Program Coordinator

Illinois School and Campus Safety Program

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Back to School Safety

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) provides back to school safety information including school bus safety, bicycle safety, pedestrian safety, and child safety. For more information, visit the NHTSA's Back to School: Keeping Children Safe page.

Last Chance to Register!

Threat Assessment Team Training in Freeport, IL August 29-30th

This is the last chance to register for the Threat Assessment Team Training class in Freeport, IL August 29-30th.

This comprehensive 2-day training on multidisciplinary, community-based threat assessment teams provides a history and background of threat assessment, targeted violence, threat assessment research, risk factors, and behavioral indicators of those who are intending to commit targeted violence against others. It also provides training on the concept and advantages of a community-based, multidisciplinary threat assessment system, team dynamics, threat assessment process, and management principles.

For more information and to register, click here.

Upcoming Session of "It IS Your Business" in

Des Plaines September 23rd

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program is pleased to announce a session of the "It IS Your Business": Grooming and Sexual Assault Awareness for K-12 Schools and Institutions of Higher Education class will be held September 23, 2024, in Des Plaines, IL.

"It IS Your Business" engages participants in learning about grooming and sexual assault so they have the knowledge to recognize behaviors and intervene when a situation may be arising. At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

• identify grooming as it is outlined in Faith's and Erin’s Law that now mandates training for all schools on such behaviors
• understand the co-occurring nature of interpersonal violence crimes (i.e., sexual assault, stalking, domestic violence)
• understand the elements of Title IX as it pertains to both K-12 schools and higher education
• compare normal mentoring behaviors with classic predatory behaviors and recognize the difference between the two interactions
• apply the knowledge they now have on grooming to implement better and more clear policies and procedures on the boundaries of professional conduct
• evaluate situations where professional boundaries may have been crossed and feel more confident in their decisions to intervene with employees or students, as well as feel better prepared on how to support survivors

For more information and to register, click here.

Sessions of Digital Threat Assessment® and Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® Now Scheduled

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program, in partnership with Safer Schools Together, is pleased to announce 3 upcoming sessions of the Digital Threat Assessment® class and 1 upcoming session of the Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® class being held via Zoom.

The Digital Threat Assessment® training will enable participants to establish a framework to better assess all threats by constructing and considering the digital baseline of a threat maker by locating, documenting, and evaluating social media data through a threat assessment lens. A significant portion of the day will be spent engaging in hands-on exercises on the most prevalent social media platforms and associated search applications. For more information and to register, click the corresponding link for the session you would like to attend.

September 18, 2024 - Digital Threat Assessment®

October 22, 2024 - Digital Threat Assessment®

November 13, 2024 - Digital Threat Assessment®

Building upon the Digital Threat Assessment® class by Safer Schools Together, Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® advances participants' understanding of finding and curating relevant digital information consistent with real-life digital threat assessment data gathering scenarios. Significant engagement and hands-on practice will take place as participants are assembled into investigative teams and given a true-to-life mock scenario.

Dec. 5, 2024 - Advanced Digital Threat Assessment®

Upcoming Conferences

Illinois School Safety Conference - Niles, IL - October 2, 2024

Joint Annual Conference - Chicago, IL - November 22-24, 2024