No matter where it occurs, a school shooting can have a tremendous impact throughout the country, prompting questions about what schools are doing to keep their students safe and to prevent a school shooting in their community.  Planned school attacks have been prevented when schools have learned of threats and moved quickly to investigate the situation.  Through training, consultation, liaison, and research services, Threat Assessment Resources International helps schools and universities to respond to, investigate, and manage threatening situations before harm occurs.

Threat Assessment Resources International provides basic and advanced threat assessment training to help schools identify, assess, and manage individuals who make threats or engage in other concerning behavior. The training is based on research and best practices in the area of school threat assessment, including the model for school threat assessment that was developed by Dr. Marisa Randazzo and her colleagues , based upon research they led for the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education on school shootings in America.

• Basic Threat Assessment Training - Appropriate for all school or university staff, parents, and for those in the community who have contact with students after school hours, such as local law enforcement personnel, after-school employers, mental health counselors, and staff from extra-curricular programs and sports teams.  Training includes major research and case studies of school shootings, implications for school safety, basic principles of school threat assessment, and establishing a school threat assessment team.
• Advanced Threat Assessment Training – Appropriate for established threat assessment teams. The training leads the team through table-top exercises on fictitious threats, allowing the team to handle a specific threat case from start to finish.
• Online Training on Understanding School Shootings - This hour-long course provides participants with a basic understanding of the behaviors and communications that school shooters have shown prior to their attacks, and what can be done if similar behavior is seen a student they know. The course can be taken anytime, at your own computer. It is appropriate for all school and university faculty and staff, parents, school and local law enforcement, and for those in the community who have contact with students after school hours, including employers, coaches, mentors, and others. Please click on the links below to see demos of the course, or click on the box below to purchase the course.

• View an introduction to "Understanding School Shootings" (video)
• View an excerpt from "Understanding School Shootings" (video)

Threat Assessment Resources International provides consultation assistance in three major areas:

• Team Building – Providing assistance creating a threat assessment team, establishing its authority to conduct investigations, and helping to identify key systems relationships with law enforcement, mental health professionals, and others.
• Policy Review - Reviewing existing school policies and procedures and relevant FERPA restrictions on information-sharing, to enhance a school's ability to gather and share information about a student who may pose a threat.
• Threat Investigation - Providing help in investigating, assessing, and managing individual threat cases.

Studies have shown the importance of perceived safety in reducing violence and sabotage in schools.  Threat Assessment Resources International provides research services to universities, schools and school districts to assess and enhance school climates through anonymous surveys of students, faculty, staff, and parents.