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Description:
The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), in conjunction with Safer Schools Together (SST), is pleased to announce the following training opportunity to help behavioral threat assessment team members better recognize and respond to today’s challenges from worrisome digital content contained on varied social media platforms.
Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) teaches participants to establish a Digital Behavioral Baseline through a School Safety/Threat Assessment lens. By engaging with popular social media applications, you will learn how to find and document worrisome digital media content originating from your school community. This training solidifies your understanding of how to effectively use DTA® as a critical part of any modern-day threat assessment.
Participants will be able:
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To apply the principals of Behavioral Threat Assessment to DTA
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To identify the digital behavioral baseline of individuals on the pathway to violence
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To assess the language of online threat-related behavior
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Search within commonly used platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat
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To utilize Boolean operators, people search engines, and access cached data
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To validate the source of images and video
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To identify best practice navigation and ensuring privacy safeguards
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To use law enforcement guides to request user-identifying information (preservation and production orders)
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To crowdsource localized and time-relevant social media posts from your community and area
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To identify updates to stories, reels, hashtags, and IGTV
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To identify concerning trends and create awareness to ensure safety and mental wellbeing
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To gather public social media data with geolocation relevance – what are the most effective ways to identify potential witnesses in a public act of violence
Who should attend?
This training is offered to individuals serving on a K-12 school or Institute of Higher Education (IHE) threat assessment team and crisis team or the school division oversight committees as well as school security, campus security, and law enforcement.
Partial In-Service Credit:
Partial In-Service Credit (PIC) for law enforcement officers will not be available.
Training Time and Details:
Training begins at 8:30 am and ends at 12:30 pm. SST will host the sessions via Zoom. Participants will log-in to Benchmark to access the Zoom link.
The training will be offered virtually, and attendance is limited to 100 attendees
Cost and Registration:
There is no registration fee to attend this training. Pre-registration is required. Please use a valid work email address (not a personal email address) to register for this training.
Please note that the DCJS registration system does not have the capacity to sort eligible from ineligible registrants. Therefore, anyone who registers will receive a confirmation. It is the responsibility of the DCJS-assigned course coordinator to review the roster and make a final determination on acceptance into the course. Denied registrants will be notified via the email address provided during registration.