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 ...

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 ...

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 U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) has released a new report titled “The State of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in K–12 Public Schools.“ This report ...

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 ...

Healthcare organizations today face a wide range of escalating threats, including workplace violence, cyber intrusions, social unrest, and increasingly targeted acts against healthcare professionals ...

Using research conducted by the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) and other sources, Part 1 of this three-part series discussed common deception strategies school shooters have used to evade ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has a strong interest in protecting faculty, students, staff, and visitors from harm to themselves or others., In support of that interest, CU Boulder has adopted a ...