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Spotting & Stopping Threats
Enhanced Student Threat Assessment System

of those who use Assess & Progress would recommend it to their friends and coworkers.

Assess & Progress is an enhanced, student threat assessment system for individual schools or districts.

It retains what works with the current threat assessment procedures and expands them to be more effective, easier to use, and less traumatic for everyone involved—turning good threat assessments into great one.

Assess & Progress gives your team the skills, materials, and confidence to accurately assess threats, intervene appropriately, and manage dangerous students. With Assess & Progress, you also receive ready-made, situation-specific safety plans your school can immediately put into action.

Today, threat assessments are something done to students and families, not with them. Their role is often limited to just answering questions. Assess & Progress changes that by giving students and parents the ability to help assess risk, guide intervention, and manage their own safety.

Because nothing is more important than doing great threat assessments, Assess & Progress includes one-on-one coaching and ongoing, on-call support for urgent threat situations after the training—at no additional cost.

It doesn’t matter if you already have procedures. Assess & Progress is the answer. It can be used as a stand-alone system or integrated seamlessly into your existing approach.

Proven & Effective.

Success Story:

“Thank you! Because of you and what you taught us, we were able to stop a school shooting. The materials you provided as well as the right perspective and understanding of the path to violence were incredibly beneficial.

With it we were able to stop the student and win the case in the state Supreme Court.”

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Why Your Schools Need
Assess & Progress

Most schools are trained to identify a threat.
That satisfies the procedural requirement for a threat assessment, but it leaves a dangerous gap forcing schools to ask:

• What do we do now?
• How do we manage this student tomorrow, next week, or next year?
• How do we involve parents without escalating fear or conflict?
• How do we reduce risk without stigmatizing the student or damaging trust?

This is where current threat assessments fall short.

They are designed to identify danger, not to manage it over time.
They focus on classification, not intervention, growth, and follow-through. And they often create fear, confusion, and division instead of clarity and direction.

Assess & Progress closes this gap.

Current Threat Assessments	Assess & Progress
Current Threat Assessments Limited to immediate threats of violence	Assess & Progress Addresses immediate threats while building long-term safety and prevention
Current Threat Assessments Only punishment-focused	Assess & Progress Punishment, consequences, growth-focused, and relationship-centered
Current Threat Assessments Police model built for quick assessment and moving on to next call	Assess & Progress Retains the police assessment model but adds long-term intervention and management
Current Threat Assessments Little or no value to the student; done to them, not with them	Assess & Progress Invaluable to the student because they can fully participate, developing lifelong skills to resist using violence
Current Threat Assessments Prioritizes identifying problems	Assess & Progress Prioritizes identifying problems AND solutions
Current Threat Assessments Confusing for parents, increasing anxiety and limiting their ability to help	Assess & Progress Parent Guides and Worksheets reduce anxiety and enable parents to fully help
Current Threat Assessments Pits schools against students and parents against schools, damaging relationships	Assess & Progress Strengthens parent-school relationships by uniting families and schools around shared goals
Current Threat Assessments Inflexible — stops when threat is determined, leaving everyone unsure what to do next	Assess & Progress Highly flexible — provides rapid, ongoing guidance until the student is no longer a threat
Current Threat Assessments Conditions schools to see every behavior as a threat, raising fear and anxiety	Assess & Progress Conditions schools to think holistically about students and behavior, lowering fear
Current Threat Assessments Stigmatizes students and families — schools are not designed for this approach	Assess & Progress Stigmatizes no one — helping students grow (progress) is what schools do best so it feels more natural
Current Threat Assessments Provides threat assessment mechanisms and little else	Assess & Progress Provides threat, intervention, management, and growth mechanisms as well as readymade plans

Course Topics

This fast-paced, in-depth training combines instruction, discussion, and a comprehensive practical application.

Threat Pillar #1: Identify the Threat

Distinguishing normal behavior from actual threats
Noticing subtle shifts in student behavior before it's too late
Identifying signs of imminent or impending danger
Spotting the threat and what it really looks like
Identifying where a student is in the 4 Categories of Life

Every student is living in one of 4 categories and their success, happiness, or risk potential for harm is directly tied to that category.

We’ll show you how to quickly assess where a student is and give you the tools to help them progress to a safer, healthier category.

Threat Pillar #2: Assess the Threat

Conducting comprehensive student safety assessments with confidence
Utilizing Assess & Progress Student Safety Assessment worksheets
Making rapid and confident snapshot assessments
Assessing student behavior and determining risk level
Using the Path to Violence model to gauge risk and proximity to using violence
Building growth and intervention plans
Predicting future student behavior and calculating potential risk
Supporting families with guides and collaboration tools
Preventing stigmatizing students or alienating families

Threat Pillar #3: Respond to the Threat

Implementing immediate lifesaving actions (snapshot)
Responding to threats with clarity and speed
Acting appropriately when a student is escalating or violent
Using pre-planned thresholds and intervention levels
Implementing, assessing, and improving growth and intervention plans
Responding clearly to teachers, parents, and media after a threat
Making decisions rooted in the Safe & Loved strategic framework
Turning negative paths around before they escalate
Reintegrating suspended or expelled students safely
Using ACT FAST strategies to determine the next best course of action

Threat Pillar #4: Survive the Threat

Achieving a full lockdown in 7 seconds or less
Leading with love, clarity, connection, and inspiration
Maintaining staff energy, clarity, and momentum
Reshaping environments to remove opportunities for violence
Guarding your own emotional well-being when conducting threat assessments
Protecting your school and yourself from civil liability

Flex Scheduling

With flex scheduling you can train more staff, maintain coverage during the school day, and fully implement the program any time during the school year.

Split your staff into two training groups: Group A and Group B
While Group A trains, Group B remains on campus to provide coverage and vice versa
Schools stay open and fully supported throughout the entire process
Each group attends 2 training days, spread out across a 4-day window
Staff are welcome to join any session that best suits their schedule
If someone needs to leave mid-session, future offerings can serve as a makeup
Principals, counselors, SROs, and others serving multiple sites can alternate days to stay balanced

Fee:

$14,750

What's Included:

Two blocks of training (2 days each)
Back-to-back training sessions spread across 4 days.
Each trainng group is limited to 50 participants.

Travel expenses
Hotel, travel, expenses, and materials.

Personal coaching and consulting for a year
Via phone, text, and video support as needed or requested

On-call support for urgent threat or implementation assistance for one year
Via phone, text, and video support as needed or requested

Updates to handouts, worksheets, or forms as modified
Electronic copies

7-Second Lockdown program
All materials, training videos, and offsite assistance as needed

The complete Assess & Progress Threat Assessment System including:
- Electronic copies of classroom materials and permission to print worksheets
- Fillable PDF forms
- Substantial Step Worksheet
- Snapshot Assessment Worksheet
- Next Steps Worksheet
- Parent Guide (with helpful explanation video)
- Interview Worksheets (Student, Witness, Parent)
- Search Worksheets
- Stacking Behaviors Worksheet
- Path to Violence Worksheet
- Current Assessment Worksheet
- Intervention & Management Worksheet
- 5 Page Master Assessment Worksheet
4 Categories of Life Worksheet
- Student (Initial) Worksheet
- Student (Rapid) Worksheet
- Teacher (Initial) Worksheet
- Parent (Initial) Worksheet
Ready-to-Use Intervention Plans/Templates
By Situation
- Outside school hours — reported threat
- Outside school hours — online threat
- During the school day
- Early morning, prior to student arrival
- Student suspended and sent home
- Student returning after suspension or expulsion
By Risk Level
- Low-risk student threat
- Medium-risk student threat
- High-risk student threat

Available Services