Threat Assessment in Practice
October 20 & 21 | New Orleans, LA
This immersive two-day certification course in New Orleans is designed to move threat assessment professionals from theory to practice. Led by Dr. Brian Van Brunt and the DPrep Safety team, participants will gain direct, practical guidance on the real-world challenges that threat assessment teams face every day, including interviewing subjects, analyzing social media, and creating accurate and defensible reports.
The agenda repeats each day with a different case.
Virtual Option Available!
Can't travel to Nola? You can still join us! Virtual participants will be formed into teams. Each virtual team will be assigned a facilitator who will guide them through case development, answer questions, and ensure access to resources.
Live Actor Interviews
Work with professional actors portraying subjects in two complex threat cases with intersections in student conduct, disability services, Title IX, Title VI/VII, HR, law enforcement, and campus safety.
Applied Teamwork
Collaborate with your cohort to analyze the threat, assess risk, and create a tailored mitigation plan using strategies relevant to your own institution or workplace.
Case-Based Learning
You’ll review case details, form a team, gather intelligence, and conduct structured interviews. From there, your team will develop an assessment report and risk mitigation plan.
Rotating Experiences
Across two days, participants rotate through different interview roles and scenarios, developing agility in handling personalities, defensiveness, and complex case dynamics.
The training will take place in the 7th Ward – an easy walk from the French Quarter.
Topics Include:
Interview Recording & Transcription: When should you record an interview? When is transcription more effective? We’ll explore best practices, weighing legal, ethical, and practical considerations.
Assessing Social Media Threats: Learn structured approaches to gathering, interpreting, and weighing online content in your threat assessments.
Interview Accuracy & Deception: Practice strategies to gain information from subjects who may minimize, distort, or attempt to manage impressions. Learn how to spot inconsistencies, build rapport, and verify information.
Managing Bias: Instructors will highlight common biases that affect casework and demonstrate ways to maintain objectivity, improve decision-making, and avoid pitfalls.
Meet Ella Moreau...
This tough-as-nails student can take care of herself. She is insightful and challenging in the classroom as she studies mortuary science and dreams of opening a funeral business, building on the idea of renewable and sustainable burial processes that involve placing the body into the ground to nourish a tree. There have been concerns in the classroom and on social media regarding some frequent and slightly gruesome posts related to her criticism of the existing funeral business model. This recently escalated into a threat against her professor, which came to the attention of the CARE/BIT team and local police.
Meet Professor Dusty Harrington...
This middle-aged professor has become increasingly disorganized and unclear in his lectures. He mentions topics of suicide and death in relation to the current political climate. Students find his lectures increasingly hard to follow and off topic. Staff and colleagues give Professor Harrington a wide berth due to his eccentricities. However, recent discussions related to his extremist views on the Middle Eastern conflict in Gaza and his warnings about an approaching apocalypse have caused Human Resources and the University Threat team to put the professor on temporary leave to be assessed for safety. There are requests for a threat assessment, a psychological assessment, a level of care determination (involuntary hold), and a determination of fitness to return to campus.
Join us in historic New Orleans, LA this October!
