Safety Division Courses and Workshops
Law Enforcement

Law enforcement professionals, in collaboration with community partners such as school counselors and administrators, are tasked with the job of keeping our schools, colleges, and workplaces free of violence and acts of targeted aggression, commonly known as mass shootings. This course offers a practical approach to recognizing and preventing violence in schools, colleges, workplaces, and communities. This course is designed to provide the terminology, assessment, and intervention skills needed to identify threats and develop a community-based, collaborative mitigation plan.

Designed for law enforcement professionals, but inclusive of all community partners, participants will learn how to develop a violence risk mitigation plan tied to a multi-disciplinary team assessment. They will review concepts related to targeted vs. affective violence, transient and substantive threats, risk and protective/anchor factors for targeted violence, and how BIT/CARE and threat teams operate in law enforcement agencies, schools, colleges, workplaces, and communities.

DPrep Safety brings together a diverse, experienced team of faculty to tackle this course from the perspectives of counseling, law enforcement, conduct, DEI, Title IX, and human resources. We provide an intersectional perspective that draws from the best research and practice in each of these fields. The multidisciplinary approach to threat assessment is a best practice supported by leading governmental organizations and subject-matter experts in the field.

More details on our Preparedness Page.

School resource officers (SROs), campus safety officers, and law enforcement respond to both complaints and concerns with criminal implications and those limited to school or college conduct and discipline policy violations (non-criminal). SROs and campus police should have a clear understanding and accompanying procedures for responding to both criminal and non-criminal matters that impact the school climate. Successful SRO and campus safety programs adopt a continuous education process for the school community to reduce conflict and avoid surprises. This understanding and education within the school is essential to the development of formal and informal memoranda of understanding (MOUs) and agreements with external agencies and departments.

Law enforcement professionals working outside the school environment need to develop a detailed understanding of conflicts and miscommunication that arise when interacting with K-12 schools, colleges, and universities. The program provides law enforcement professionals the opportunity to improve their understanding and communication with schools and colleges within their area of responsibility.

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Gathering information from another party is an important skill set that crosses over a number of fields, including threat assessment, Title IX, case management, conduct/discipline, and law enforcement/campus safety. This course is meant as an advanced track, moving the conversation beyond the interviewing and intake skills outlined in our BIT/CARE trainings. Our team teaches from decades of experience with an intersectional focus on counseling, law enforcement, campus safety, student conduct, and legal techniques.

More details at Threat Page. 

This course is designed for those who have completed previous threat assessment courses and have a working knowledge of the modes of violence, types of threats, and have a rubric or system they are able to use when assessing risk and threat. We will share advanced concepts related to social media threat assessments, involuntarily celibates (incel), the growing risk of white supremacist violence, report writing, and threat mitigation planning. 

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Large-scale emergency incidents and disasters can occur anywhere. When they do, being prepared in advance is one of the most important factors in a successful response. This workshop will provide the tools to enable administrators, students, faculty, and staff to manage a wide variety of emergency situations.

Drawing on Dr. Brian Van Brunt’s work in his books A Faculty Guide to Disruptive and Dangerous Behavior and A Staff Guide to Addressing Disruptive and Dangerous Behavior on Campus, this training will explore the difference between disruptive and dangerous behavior in and outside the classroom. The training will cover how to de-escalate a crisis when it occurs and the importance of sharing this information forward with your BIT/CARE team.

The central outcome of BIT/CARE and threat work is mitigating the risk through interventions, referrals, and connections to community-based support services. These interventions are the responsibility of everyone on the team, although some members may work more directly with students and/or community members. There have also been increasing numbers of schools, colleges/universities, housing agencies, and workplaces investing in case management and social workers to coordinate intervention services.

The skills needed to carry out this work include conducting an intake meeting, creating timely documentation,  and developing a risk mitigation plan that considers the individual’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, mental illness, physical disability, and religious and political beliefs. While many staff and team members provide these support services informally, based on their history of positive interactions with individuals, a formalized structure with defensible documentation is important for all interventions. By coordinating these services through the BIT/CARE team, we can better ensure that the support offered is aligned with the level of risk, equitable and inclusive, capable of driving change, and grounded in research and literature.

This course is ideal for BIT/CARE team members, law enforcement, resident directors, academic and career counselors, case managers, and orientation leaders to review the key factors in developing effective interventions.

More details on our BIT/CARE Page.

We all have biases. Bias affects how we see the world and how we choose to interact with others. The goal of this workshop is to better understand and mitigate bias in our processes, not to remove it. This training provides an opportunity to explore how each of us sees the world and to broaden our awareness when working with others through assessment, crisis de-escalation, and interventions. This workshop emphasizes the importance of improving the accuracy and validity of our processes across three critical areas: gathering information, making decisions, and developing interventions.

More details on our Preparedness Page.

This course training helps participants navigate the challenges presented by faculty and other community members and learn how to talk with faculty, staff, parents, students, and the general community about threats (while staying within the limits of information privacy).

This workshop focuses on learning terminology related to gender identity and exploring other perspectives and worldviews on gender. Whether you are new to these ideas or want to learn more, we have a place for you in our classes. This training is not about shame, blame, forced change, demanded acceptance, or agreement. Our workshops have been designed to foster engagement and promote connection, belonging, and safety for all groups of people.

Learn more at genderexpression.info

This workshop will review a wide range of challenging topics that are being addressed in our society, including political divides, mask and vaccine mandates, social justice movements, defund the police, abortion, antisemitism, and LGBTQI+ rights.

We will offer a structured approach to engaging with these topics, with an eye toward civility, respect, and principled debate. The conversational approach identifies hotspots for escalation, prioritizes interactive exercises and learning activities, and avoids name-calling and other objectification.

There is a very long path between identifying a suicidal risk with an individual and making sure they become connected to counseling services. This workshop will review the importance of looking for signs and symptoms of suicidal behavior and understanding how best to help them access services. Particular attention will be given to treatment-resistant individuals (e.g., those who do not wish to attend counseling) and groups that historically have underutilized services (e.g., LGBTQ+, African Americans). Practical case examples and role-playing will be incorporated.

This workshop will provide an opportunity to better understand microaggressions, the unconscious manifestations of privilege that contain the potential to impact marginalized groups further negatively, using examples related to gender, culture, race/ethnicity, mental health, generational differences, physical disability, and sexual orientation. We will provide a process for addressing microaggressions, along with a discussion of good/bad apologies, how to avoid the perfection problem, intent vs. impact, bias, and cultural humility.

This workshop will offer practical guidance on the topics of managing mental illness concerns related to suicide and trauma in the community and/or schools. We will address common challenges when working with students and community members who experience severe, pervasive, and persistent mental illness and understanding the range of referral and treatment from outpatient therapy to inpatient treatment.

DPrep Safety’s Mindset Active Assailant Training blends leading research from psychology, law enforcement, and military theory with our instructors’ practice and experience to emphasize early preparation before an attack. Through a trauma-informed approach to instructional design, we train teachers, administrators, and other employees to enhance their awareness of their surroundings. This awareness improves response time and empowers community members to act rather than freeze in fear or indecision. The Mindset program helps participants choose the best course of action, increasing the likelihood of survival.

More details on our Preparedness Page.

We all have biases. Bias shapes how we see the world and how we choose to interact with others. The goal of this workshop is to better understand and mitigate bias in our processes, not to remove it. This training provides an opportunity to explore how each of us sees the world and widens the aperture of awareness when working with others through assessment, crisis de-escalation, and interventions. This workshop emphasizes the importance of improving the accuracy and validity of our processes across the three critical areas of gathering information, making decisions, and developing interventions.

More details on our Preparedness Page.

In this workshop, we will address the specific challenges faced by underserved populations related to mental health treatment and suicide prevention. Our speakers will address challenges faced by underserved populations such as Latino, Black, Asian, and non-traditional students, with special attention to the LGBTQI+ community. The speakers will offer an engaging and lively discussion on the topics, with clear advice on how to move forward to better address the problem.

DPrep Safety works with schools, workplaces, colleges, and universities that want to put their teams through a tailored experience involving a number of cases to earn a threat assessment certification. Cases are developed within a general topic (e.g., mental illness, low-level threat, outsider threat, relationship violence) and are tailored for the specific team working the case. For example, if the community is a workplace, the threat will demonstrate a workplace scenario. If the location is a middle school or a community, non-residential college, then that will be included in the case details.

Certification is offered through a process wherein the team is given a case with two weeks' lead time to create a triage assessment of risk, score the case with a VRA process (e.g., HCR-20, Darkfox, SIVRA-35, WAVR-21, MOSAIC, etc.), and generate a final threat report including mitigation planning that will be submitted to our subject matter experts. The case will be scored on a rubric and discussed during the 90-minute Zoom discussion.

More details at Threat Page. 

This training includes an overview of key terms and definitions related to bias, unconscious preconceptions, microaggressions, and the trauma-informed perspective. 

We will review the challenges facing those working in the community and schools, and will demonstrate how to mitigate bias and help bring our unconscious preconceptions into the open. 

Instructors will stress the importance of moving forward in a positive direction while avoiding the pitfalls of perfectionism and political correctness. We will define implicit and explicit bias and explore how our beliefs are shaped by experience, upbringing, school, geography, religion, and peers. 

Brief scenarios will be used to encourage discussion and reflection, describing negative experiences related to poverty, learning disabilities, mental illness, physical disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and ethnicity.

Required by California’s SB553 and recommended for all workplaces, these plans identify and mitigate potential risk factors for violence and include procedures for responding to violence and potential violence. DPrep Safety offers templates and can work with you to tailor them to your site’s needs. We also offer comprehensive site walkthroughs and can train your staff on how to prepare for and respond to potential violence.