RAPTOR StudentSafe™

2023 Campus Safety BEST Award

For Empowering Schools with Early Intervention Software

OVERVIEW AND BENEFITS

Supporting the Individual, Holistic Safety of Your Students

The patented StudentSafe technology from Raptor brings together the systems that help schools recognize, document, support and manage the wellbeing of individual students. The intuitive and robust platform includes the ability to capture low-level concerns, conduct behavioral threat assessments and suicide risk assessments and manage such cases, ensuring positive student outcomes.

Empower all staff to submit early concerns about student behavior
Establish a secure, central repository for student chronologies
Identify opportunities to intervene much sooner
Leverage school counselors to address problems when they’re more manageable
When necessary, escalate a concern into an assessment of harm to self or others
Provide all relevant information to assessment teams from within the same system

Use the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale and the SAFE-T tool to assess students who may harm themselves
Use any of the three (3) primary behavioral threat assessment models to assess students who may harm others
Assign tasks, schedule follow-ups and keep students on a positive path
Easily share data with approved team members and local agencies
Reduce risk and liability with a secure system based on proven strategies

What Our Customers Say

“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.”

“Raptor recently released its StudentSafe platform that helps schools recognize, document, and support the well-being of students. By empowering all staff to document and route information to key stakeholders, StudentSafe now gives schools the ability to track, analyze, and document early concerns, and escalate critical items for further assessment. Additionally, StudentSafe helps multidisciplinary teams at schools conduct threat assessments and electronically store the information.”

Help Students Sooner for
Better Outcomes

Connecting the smallest dots for the earliest interventions.

This happens at every school, every day – a bus driver, teacher or janitor notices something a bit odd about a student’s behavior. Often, we rationalize it away hoping it’s an isolated incident or that someone else will handle it. But what if we’re already the third person this week who’s noticed and nothing has yet to be done?

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Empower Staff

Give staff the opportunity to direct their concerns in a way that will receive the appropriate attention.

Create a Chronology

When small pieces of information come together in one central, secure system, patterns emerge for individual students as well as trends across cohorts.

See a Need

School counselors and trained professionals can readily identify a student in need of support. With such early indications, problems may often be managed more simply with existing resources.

Document & Monitor

With concerns, tasks, notes and actions in one system, it requires less effort to monitor student progress and achieve positive outcomes.

BEHAVIORAL THREAT ASSESSMENTS

Leverage Technology in Support of School Violence Prevention

Focus on the students, not the paperwork. Behavioral threat assessments (BTAs) are crucial tools for identifying and preventing violent incidents in schools. Increasingly states are requiring BTA teams, reporting and in some cases, specific methodologies. Raptor’s StudentSafe software is carefully designed to help support these initiatives so teams can focus more on the students and less on the administrative tasks.

Data Collection & Analysis

A central repository gives teams a secure place to gather and share data. This makes it easier to analyze the data to identify patterns and potential warning signs so teams can make informed decisions.

Case
Management

StudentSafe case management enables teams to manage and organize cases and track the progress of interventions over time. This can help teams to stay organized and ensure that individuals are receiving the appropriate level of support and follow-up.

Communication & Collaboration

Throughout assessment and case management teams to quickly share information and coordinate their efforts to ensure a coordinated response. StudentSafe facilitates communication and collaboration among team members, even if they are in different locations.

Data Privacy & Security

Raptor is SOC 2, type 2 certified examinations for Privacy and Security meaning Districts can be confident that sensitive information is well protected within StudentSafe.

BTA TEAM TRAINING

Build Knowledge and Confidence in Your BTA Teams

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

SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENTS

Prevent One of the Leading Causes of Death in Students

The alarming rate of death by suicide among students requires all our attention. StudentSafe provides a secure platform for school counselors to assess, document and manage cases where students may be at risk of self-harm.

Using the tools, deemed industry best practice, including the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) and SAFE-T, school counselors can analyze data about a student’s behaviors, attitudes, and mental wellbeing, providing a more comprehensive picture of their risk for suicide. Additionally, counselors can create personalized risk management plans, provide resources for students and guardians, and monitor their progress over time.

What Is StudentSafe? How Does It Work? Is It Secure?

We know you have a lot of questions. That’s why we’ve collected the most frequently asked and answered them for you below.

What is StudentSafe?

StudentSafe is the first-of-its-kind platform to help schools recognize, document, support and manage the wellbeing of individual students. The hallmark of Raptor’s patented technology is the emphasis on cataloging low-level concerns so your teams can see a student in need of support at the very earliest signs of distress. Now all the small pauses and quick mental notes your staff makes in concern for a student can be easily entered into a single secure platform where your trained teams are able to see a picture forming of a student who may need help.

Additionally, StudentSafe includes assessment workflows and case management for threats of harm to self and others. The primary behavioral threat assessment models are available: Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG), the Federal or National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) model and Salem-Keizer Cascade. For suicide risk assessment the Columbia-Suicide Risk Severity Scale and the SAFE-T tool are included.

How does StudentSafe work?

Any school staff member or administrator can log in to StudentSafe and enter a low-level concern by providing some basic information. Schools establish categories of concerns at the district level. When a staff member logs in, they select the student, a category and write a few notes. Additionally, the StudentSafe dashboard will provide a quick view for authorized staff to easily identify students that may need early help and support.

If the concern for the student’s safety warrants a suicide risk assessment or behavioral threat assessment, the situation is escalated within StudentSafe and your team follows the designated workflow and case management process. The student’s chronology is accessible to school counselors and the BTA team to help inform and streamline the process. All tasks, interviews and follow-ups are documented within StudentSafe helping to keep staff focused on the needs of the student and ensuring a secure, central repository of information.

What is meant by low-level concerns?

Low-level concerns are minor concerns a staff member may have about a student’s behavior or observance of the student. These can include irregular attendance, outbursts or meltdowns, unexplained bruising, new slang, appearing unkempt/disheveled, food insecurity, withdrawal, etc. 

Why should low-level concerns be addressed early?

Oftentimes, such behaviors or observances may not seem concerning as a single instance, however when others have similar encounters with the student and they are all documented in a central, secure place, we can easily see patterns and a need for early help and support for the student. The sooner we can help the student, the better the outcomes.

What is the basis for Safeguarding?

The software is based on a longstanding practice in the UK called safeguarding, where it is the law that schools (and other institutions) must document all forms of concerns related to the health and wellbeing of students. The goal is to safeguard students/children from harm such as any form of abuse, neglect, and mistreatment, as well as peer-on-peer abuse, grooming for gangs or other illicit activities, trafficking, self-harm and more. In 2021, Raptor Technologies purchased CPOMS, the leading provider of Safeguarding software in the UK with over 15,000 schools and more than a decade of history in improving the safety and wellbeing of UK students.

How does StudentSafe track these concerns?

Any school staff member or administrator can log in to StudentSafe and enter a low-level concern by providing some basic information. Schools establish categories of concerns such as mental wellbeing, home/family, relationships, etc. at the district level. When a staff member logs in, they select the student, a category and write a few notes. Districts can set alerts to notify counselors or other designated staff when a specific category is used (e.g., bullying). Additionally, the StudentSafe dashboard will provide a quick view for designated staff to easily identify students that may need early help and support. 

Are there privacy concerns with multiple staff having access to StudentSafe?

Most staff members will only be able to enter data, not view data. StudentSafe includes four-dimensional provisioning enabling your district to configure permissions in a highly detailed and precise manner. Additionally, Raptor is SOC2-certified providing the highest level of security on the market.

Raptor Technologies has been added to the list of signatories of the Student Privacy Pledge. We are committed to the Student Privacy Pledge and take great care and responsibility to both support the effective use of student information and safeguard student privacy and information security. More information about the pledge can be found here.

What is included with the StudentSafe Software?

Raptor StudentSafe™ software includes the ability to document and manage low-level concerns, create student chronologies, run BTA behavioral threat assessment and suicide risk assessment workflows, manage BTA cases, gain immediate insight through alerts and robust dashboards, determine trends and gaps with full-scale reporting and more. Also available at additional cost, BTA Team Training on the development and implementation of your chosen process.

Why do schools need StudentSafe?

To help manage the large volume of students needing support. StudentSafe empowers your staff with the ability to catalog low-level concerns so you can help students earlier when problems are more manageable. With your entire staff (custodians, bus drivers, food service personnel, etc.) able to enter their concerns you spread the responsibility and provide your counselor and support teams with more valuable information.
To help improve student outcomes. StudentSafe offers a highly intuitive platform where you can obtain a holistic view of individual students’ wellbeing. When school staff has a full picture, they are in a better position to collaborate with the student and caregivers and make decisions in the student’s best interest. Helping each student thrive drastically reduces threats of harm to self and others while also keeping your transfer rates low, and your completion rates high.
To help ensure your processes are conducted with fidelity and documented securely. StudentSafe helps reduce your liability when it comes to meeting compliance, requirements, and demonstrating that proven processes are followed with fidelity. The secure, cloud-based platform includes proven methodologies and thorough case management features for full documentation of findings, actions, and follow-through.

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