The Texas School Safety Center at Texas State University has been awarded a grant from the Department of Justice’s STOP School Violence Prevention Program in support of school behavioral threat assessment programs to provide a proactive, evidence-based approach for identifying individuals who may pose a threat and for providing interventions before a violent incident occurs.
The three-year, $1.5 million grant will fund “Operationalizing School Behavioral Threat Assessment: Enhancing a Statewide Violence Prevention Model through Targeted Technical Assistance.” This project will expand Operationalizing School Behavioral Threat Assessment technical assistance sessions, prioritizing those with heightened needs, such as rural districts and districts that have had a functioning school behavioral threat assessment team for fewer than three years.
Since 2019, Texas public school districts have been required by the Texas Education Code to establish trained, multi-disciplinary, school behavioral threat assessment teams to serve each school campus. The TxSSC provides state-mandated basic training as well as advanced training and resources to assist districts as they implement the school behavioral threat assessment process.
