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Threat assessment is a preventative, structured and multidisciplinary process used to evaluate the risk posed by a student or another person.
The primary purpose is to prevent targeted violence and is centered on an analysis of the facts and evidence of behavior in each situation.
Threat assessment protocols are designed with recommendations of experts and focus on situational variables, not demographic characteristics.
RCW 28A.320.123 identifies School-based Threat Assessment as:
"the formal process, established by a school district, of evaluating the threatening, or potentially threatening, behavior of a student, and the circumstances surrounding the threat, to uncover any facts or evidence that the threat is likely to be carried out."
Washington State Law
Washington State Law
School Districts are required by law to have a School Based Threat Assessment Program that provides for a timely and methodical assessment based on student behavior rather than some combination of a student's demographic and personal characteristics.
School threat assessment teams must be multi-disciplinary and multiagency, convened to assess behavior that is threatening, or potentially threatening, to self, other students, staff, school visitors, or school property.
Salem-Keizer Cascade Threat Assessment Model
Salem-Keizer Cascade Threat Assessment Model
The Salem-Keizer Cascade model of student threat assessment was developed and implemented in 1999 by the Salem-Keizer School District, led by school psychologist John Van Dreal. This threat assessment model was designed by educators for the application and use in educational settings through collaboration by multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team members.
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