Behavioral Threat Assessments BTAs

BEHAVIORAL THREAT ASSESSMENTS

Taking a Proactive
Approach to Preventing
School Violence

Get a Head Start

Patented StudentSafe™ technology gives your Behavioral Threat Assessment (BTA) teams a head start with access to a student’s full chronology already in the system.

Whether an assessment is escalated from a concern or initiated outright within StudentSafe, authorized team members can access a student’s chronology to understand prior concerns, threat assessments, interventions, progress and more. This can help teams identify root causes for threatening behavior more quickly.

FEATURED TRAINING

Empower Your Team with Essential BTA Training

SIGMA’s BTA Open Training Sessions provide educators with practical tools and expert-led strategies to identify, prevent, and manage potential threats effectively. Discover how this one day virtual training can help you take the first step toward creating a safer path for learning.

What Our Customers Say

“Raptor has made a significant impact in our school by providing a streamlined and efficient way to document incidents and maintain accountability when unexpected situations arise. We rely heavily on Raptor’s StudentSafe product, particularly for full threat assessments and RMS plans, to help us take a proactive approach to school safety, ensuring a secure environment for both staff and students."

"StudentSafe is a tremendous asset. I’ve been doing threat assessment for about seven years. For me, three key benefits of Raptor StudentSafe is that the organization of the app itself completely walks you through the process, it gives you the ability to collect all that data and analyze it easily, and the ability to collaborate with each other is built in really well. If you want a great organizational tool to keep all your threat assessment information, StudentSafe is pretty complete. "

“Adopting Raptor StudentSafe for our CSTAG platform was a big game changer for us. We’d used different threat assessment tools in the past—including hard copies—but it wasn't consistent across all of our district. Adopting StudentSafe means BTAs are completed consistently in one platform across the schools.”

Choose Your Methodology

StudentSafe includes the three (3) primary BTA methodologies, an ever-growing list of state methodologies and the ability to create your own or modify an existing one:

Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG)

Created by Dewey G. Cornell, Ph.D.
Uses a 5-step decision tree to distinguish serious, substantive threats from transient threats that are not serious
Supported by extensive research and controlled studies
Raptor is a certified partner of Dr. Cornell and is authorized to include his methodology in StudentSafe
In-person CSTAG training is available

National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) or SIGMA Model

Created by the US Secret Service and the National Threat Assessment Center
Uses 11 open-ended questions
Based on empirical research

Salem-Keizer Cascade

Created by John Van Dreal
Combination of structured and open-ended questions
Focuses on collaboration throughout the school community
Derived from practice within a school setting

State-Based Methodologies

Florida
South Carolina

Customize Your Approach

Easily modify any existing methodology or start from scratch and create your own
Do-it-yourself technology puts the power in your hands to edit existing forms, workflows, terminology and more!
Add custom guidance and tips to help ensure consistency
Build in checks for notifications such as outside agencies and parents

Help Teams be Successful

The key to a successful BTA program is a focused multi-disciplinary team approach to helping students move off a path toward violence. StudentSafe provides a systematic workflow and a host of tools to help teams create a collaborative, student-centered program.

Assign tasks

Distribute work across the team so everyone knows their assignments, deadlines and next steps.

Set reminders

Keep focused on the details and prepare for progress checks and follow-ups.

Document progress

Keep track of which interventions are most successful for a student and make sure nobody falls off the radar

Share information

Four-dimensional provisioning provides security and flexibility. Removing information silos is a primary goal for successful BTA teams.

Collaborate with team members

From task support to safety planning, the ability for teams to collaborate cannot be understated. StudentSafe provides a centralized, secure way for teams to do their best work.

Track Progress, Impact and Resources

From the individual student level to the entire district, StudentSafe provides the data you need for important decision-making.

Dashboards provide key metrics at-a-glance
Reporting across every data point helps inform counselors, team member and administrators
Quickly determine trends, gaps, resource requirements and more

Reduce Liabilities on Multiple Levels

BTA TRAINING & GUIDANCE

Build Knowledge and Confidence Within Your BTA Teams

Set your behavioral threat assessment teams up for success with expert-led team training, guidance and support.

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