Assess & Progress

Stopping Threats & Dangerous Students

2-Day Training Course

No skill is more important

than being able to quickly and accurately determine if a student who has made a threat truly poses a threat to himself and others.

Assess & Progress (Stopping Threats and Dangerous Students) gives you the skills, materials, and confidence to assess, intervene, and manage a dangerous student and to guide your school community to respond quickly, safely, and appropriately to shut down that threat.

You may be the last person who has a chance to prevent a school shooting...but only if you're ready.

Use Assess & Progress as stand alone or to enhance your current procedures.

Proven. Effective. Better.

Assess & Progress has helped to prevent school attacks and win a supreme court victory!

Success Story:
Keith, School Resource Officer

“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 Supreme Court.”

Course Details

Length: 2-days

Credit Hours: 14

Course Certificate: Yes

Who Should Attend:
- SROs/SRO Supervisors
- Superintendents
- Principals
- Counselors/Social Workers
- Deans of Students
- Directors of Safety
- Chief of Police/Sheriffs
- Threat Assessment Coordinators
- Security Officers
- Safety Team Leader/Members
- Teachers

Questions or to host a course call 540-577-7200

Course Topics

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

DAY ONE: 8:30-3:30

  1. Why kids kill and the psychology behind school attacks.
  2. Myths that hinder effective violence prevention.
  3. Commonalities among school attackers.
  4. Hard lessons learned from the worst school attacks
  5. Common danger signs indicating an impending attack.
  6. Assessing student behaviors and determining risk levels.
  7. Predicting future student behavior and calculate potential risk
  8. Distinguishing normal behavior from actual threats
  9. Making rapid and confident snapshot assessments
  10. Utilizing Assess & Progress Student Safety Assessment worksheets
  11. Using the Path to Violence model to gauge risk and proximity to using violence
  12. Building growth and intervention plans

DAY TWO: 8:30-3:30

  1. The 4 Categories of Life: Quickly identifying whether a student is Unsafe, Struggling,
    Satisfactory, or Strong
  2. Help students evaluate themselves using Assess & Progress Student Worksheets.
  3. Support parents with the Parent Guide and growth worksheets.
  4. Define thresholds and actions for setbacks in behavior or growth.
  5. Communicate clearly with staff, parents, and media about assessments and progress.
  6. Reintegrating suspended or expelled students safely
  7. Supporting families with guides and collaboration tools
  8. Preventing stigmatizing students or alienating families
  9. Guarding your own emotional well-being when conducting threat assessments
  10. Protecting your school and yourself from civil liability

What's Included

  1. On-call support for urgent threat assistance
  2. Electronic copies of classroom materials and permission to print worksheets
  3. Assess & Progress Student Safety Procedures
  4. Snapshot Assessment Worksheet
  5. Student 4 Categories of Life Worksheet
  6. Teacher 4 Categories of Life Worksheet
  7. Parent 4 Categories of Life Worksheet
  8. Interview Worksheets (Student, Witness, Parent)
  9. Search Worksheets
  10. Parent Guide
  11. Path to Violence Worksheet
  12. Current Assessment Worksheet
  13. Intervention & Management Worksheet
  14. 5 Page Master Assessment Worksheet
Worksheet 1 Worksheet 2 Worksheets

3 free seats

Bring Assess & Progress
to your area and receive 3 free seats.

All you have to do is provide a trainings space, advertise via your established network, and we'll do the rest.

We create the flyer, registration page, help advertise, and we process those who sign up.

There’s no cost to host unless you choose to send more than your 3 free seats.

Start the process →

What's the secret of Assess & Progress?

After 30 years of witnessing violence, redemption, failure, and success in the lives of young people, one truth stands out...

Every student is living in one of 4 Categories of Life and their risk, happiness, or potential for harm is directly tied to which one.

Unsafe Category Struggling Category Satisfactory Category Strong Category

Strong students don’t use violence.
Unsafe students don’t have to stay that way.

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.

Fee

$495
Per Person
Register 3 and receive 1 Free Seat

Included:

  1. 2-days of instruction
  2. Ready Made Materials
  3. Complete Assess & Progress Program
  4. Course certificate
  5. Travel Expenses
  6. One Year of Ongoing Support
  7. On-call support for urgent threat assistance
  8. Prompted reminders to maintain focus and follow-through
  9. Staff Development Opportunities (video or phone)
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