The Intersection of School Suicide Risk Screening and Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management Trainings

Virtual Training

The Texas School Safety Center, in partnership with Safe and Sound Schools, is hosting The Intersection of School Suicide Risk Screening and Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management training.

The three-hour virtual training explores the shared and distinct aspects of assessing and responding to suicidal and homicidal ideation in students. While both can represent last resort coping behaviors that sometimes require a combined suicide risk and school behavioral threat assessment, the two processes are not interchangeable. The session clarifies when a dual assessment is appropriate, emphasizing that suicide risk screening is often included in school behavioral threat assessment (SBTA) protocols, but an SBTA may not automatically accompany every suicide concern.

Participants will learn how to determine when a combined approach is warranted, what it entails, and how to develop safety plans that address both suicidal and homicidal ideation, as well as:

  • Gain knowledge of the similarities and differences of behaviors for danger to self and danger to others
  • Identify the similarities and differences between suicide risk screening and a school behavior threat assessment
  • Recognize when both a school behavioral threat assessment and a suicide risk assessment need to be conducted
  • Learn how to develop a safety plan that addresses both harm to self and harm to others

Registration Requirements

  1. Take the “School Behavioral Threat Assessment Training”

    Participants will only be eligible to attend this training after completion of the 7-hour School Behavioral Threat Assessment training offered through the Texas School Safety Center, which introduces necessary key concepts and is a non-negotiable prerequisite for the advanced training.

    School Behavioral Threat Assessment Training (opens in a new tab)

Please Note: This training is open to public ISDs, open-enrollment charter schools, junior colleges, law enforcement, and state agencies that support Texas schools. Vendors and contractors are not permitted to register for this training.

Not eligible for TCOLE training credit.

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All virtual trainings will be provided through the Zoom platform. Once you are registered and confirmed, a direct Zoom link will be sent to you 1–2 business days prior to the training date. TxSSC prohibits the use of AI notetakers during live virtual trainings.

In order to receive a Certificate of Participation, participants must attend the entire training on their own individual device.

Special Accommodations

Please submit all special accommodations request(s) via email to txssc_riskscreen@txstate.edu no later than two weeks prior to the training.

To begin registration, select any date tile labeled OPEN.

All times are in the Central Time Zone.

Current Trainings

Training contact & certificate

For more information about The Intersection of School Suicide Risk Screening and Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management Trainings, please email txssc_riskscreen@txstate.edu.

If you’ve completed The Intersection of School Suicide Risk Screening and Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management Training and need to request your certificate, select the link below:

Training Certificate Request Form (opens in a new tab)