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The greater and healthier the connection with teachers, coaches, parents, administrators, church leaders, etc., the less chance of wanting to disappoint or hurt them and the greater opportunity for fostering positive values, community connections, and prosocial choices. A situation that lacks connection to adults increases risk since there is less to lose by acting out. If a student (or group of students) lacks connection to prosocial adults and are also marginalized within the student population, then intervention and connection is strongly indicated.
REMEMBER: It's important to provide a learning opportunity for the student to learn, then observe, and then practice (with feedback) any lagging skills that the team has found during the Behavioral Safety Assessment. The student can also be assigned a learning task to help them facilitate the new skill.
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Level 1 Behavioral Safety Assessment
Level 1 Behavioral Safety Assessment
Consider a Level 1 Behavioral Safety Assessment when:
Threat, aggression, or violence is specific to identified target with motive and plan
Threat, aggression, or violence is causing considerable fear or disruption to activity
There is continued intent to carry out threat
There is a history of threats, aggression, or violence
Staff, parent or student intuition suggests a need to investigate threatening circumstances
Administrator is unable to determine if a situation poses a risk to school personnel or the community
STEP 1:
Communicate with your Level 1 Behavioral Safety Assessment Team (Principal, AP, Counselor, Psychologist) to share known information.
Inform parents that their child is going through a Behavioral Safety Assessment to properly gather all information and use best practices to help all students. Invite them to be part of the Level 1 Behavioral Safety Assessment unless there is a reason not to.
Practice strategic interviewing to complete Level 1 forms (interviews are assigned to the team member with the best relationship with the interviewee). If a teacher or parent participates in the Level 1 meeting, you do not have to fill out the interview form as they will share the information they have.
STEP 2:
Once you have all the relevant interview forms filled out, assemble your Level 1 Behavioral Safety Assessment team. Everyone shares their knowledge of the student and the information they have gathered. Then one team member fills out the 4J Student Behavioral Safety Assessment System online.
Remember you cannot save this document, therefore you should have all pieces assembled prior to, and be able to answer all the questions as a team to completion.
Submit the Level 0 and 1 BSA Documentation Form below.
Level 0 and Level 1 BSA Documentation
Level 0 will be prompted to submit at the end of Section 4
Level 1 will submit at the end of Section 15
STEP 3:
If you have an identified target you have 12 hours to call that family and 24 hours to send a written letter home. THIS IS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT. This is to be done by the Principal or the person a Principal designates. *Please note! If the identified target is a student outside your school/student in another district/community member the Principal must call the Behavioral Safety Assessment Coordinator to liaise with Law Enforcement for notification.
Below you will find a Notification Log and Notification Letter that you can use as a template. PLEASE NOTE: remove the law enforcement portion of the letter if it is not applicable to your Behavioral Safety Assessment. If you are not sure please ask the Director of School Safety - 541-780-4000.
STEP 4:
If a Level 1 Behavioral Safety Assessment was completed, your Behavioral Safety Assessment team will follow up 14 days after incident and 30 days post incident at minimum. You will go into your google folder labeled Behavioral Safety Assessment Summaries and fill in a brief update under the Follow Up section. Print the summary form found in that folder and place it in a seal envelope marked Confidential in the student's cumulative file.
If a Level 2 Behavioral Safety Assessment was completed, the Behavioral Safety Assessment Coordinator will share information and Safety Plan recommendations from the Lane County Level 2 Behavioral Safety Assessment Team with the school Level 1 team. Follow up will still be completed by the school team at 14 days post incident and 30 days post incident, however this information will be shared with the Behavioral Safety Assessment Coordinator as well as being stored in the google folder labeled Behavioral Safety Assessment Summaries.
Level 2 Behavioral Safety Assessment
Level 2 Behavioral Safety Assessment
Consider a Level 2 Behavioral Safety Assessment when:
Weapon at school or attempt to bring a weapon
You have concerns regarding extreme aggression but are unable to confidently answer questions on the protocol
You have confidently answered the questions on the protocol and have safety concerns regarding impulsive or reactive behavior that will likely result in serious or lethal injury to another
You have confidently answered the questions on the protocol and have concerns regarding threats of targeted aggression that indicate motive, plan, preparation, scheduling and/or other behavior that suggests the serious consideration of an act of targeted aggression
You have exhausted your building resources and would like to explore community support to assist you with supervision
If a Level 2 is needed, contact Stephanie Herro, Behavioral Threat Assessment Manager: 541-221-0577
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