TxSSC

The Texas School Safety Center is offering technical assistance sessions on how to operationalize your School Behavioral Threat Assessment programming.

The Operationalizing School Behavioral Threat Assessment technical assistance sessions will include:

• Answers to questions related to the implementation of SBTA processes and specific district team needs.
• An action plan, created by TxSSC, based on the outcomes of the technical assistance session. TxSSC will issue action plans to districts one to two weeks after their session. The action plan will support them in improving their threat assessment programming.

Selection Process and Requirements:

One district team will be selected per two-hour session and the session will be conducted as a round table discussion in a Zoom platform. All attendees will be required to be visible on camera and have their microphone enabled to actively participate in the session.

It is recommended that a combination of district and campus level representation be in attendance. We ask that you include as many members as possible for the session to be productive.

A district level representative responsible for overseeing the district’s School Behavioral Threat Assessment program should be the team member filling out the registration form and all future surveys.

When requesting your preferred date and time for a session, please be sure it accommodates your entire team. Please note, some dates/times on the webpage may no longer be available. You will see exact dates and times upon completing the registration form.

The district representative will be required to complete an Operationalizing School Behavioral Threat Assessment Technical Assistance Intake Survey and Pre-Assessment. The goal of the Intake Survey and Pre-Assessment is to best understand how your district and campuses are currently implementing SBTA processes. This will allow us to focus our meeting on meaningful and impactful topics.

These technical sessions are provided through a Department of Justice grant and the district representative will be asked to participate in 4 short surveys after the sessions over the course of 12 months to assist the Texas School Safety Center with technical session implementation and effectiveness.

Each completion of a survey will result in one entry toward a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Completion of all 4 post-surveys will allow the district with 4 opportunities to be awarded with a gift card.

Please Note: This technical assistance is open to public ISDs and open-enrollment charter schools.