{"id":10851,"date":"2018-06-29T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebw.tv\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2018-07-10T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:36:31","slug":"school-threat-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/school-threat-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools Districts Gather for School Threat Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sc4.edu\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Sponsored by: St. Clair County Community College<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Written by Audrey Sochor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0Superintendents, social workers, school resource officers and mental health professionals gathered on June 27 to discuss an unfortunate issue facing the nation: how to prevent school shootings and other acts of violence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0Courtenay McCarthy, school psychologist for Salem-Keizer Public Schools in Oregon, shared expertise on her school\u2019s student threat assessment, which has been in use for 19 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cStudent threat assessment is a process designed to prevent actions of targeted violence in schools,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cSo that is a kind of violence when someone pre-selects the people that they want to harm, plans and prepares to carry that out. So we\u2019re talking about how to design a system to identify those threats and manage them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0The school administers and their community partners teamed up for a two-day presentation with McCarthy, but training will be ongoing. \u201cI\u2019m helping those teams determine how to work together, to function as a team, to identify, assess and manage concerning situations,\u201d McCarthy said. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0One of those team members is Jeff Friedland, director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for St. Clair County. He said while the county knows what to do in the aftermath of a violent school event, it\u2019s time to get a better preventative process in place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve been very active in the response side, at getting emergency services trained and getting equipment, so if an event does occur they can minimize the damage,\u201d Friedland said. \u201cBut in most cases the damage is done prior to emergency services getting there.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0For him, student threat assessments were the next step to keeping kids on the right track. It also gave his office and the schools a chance to create a cohesive system for all the county districts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAt the end of the day if there\u2019s an event we\u2019re all in it together, so preventing it keeps us from all being in it together,\u201d Friedland. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0Kenneth Nicholl, superintendent of Yale Public Schools, said the county already has a close knit group of superintendents and that this training allows them to reflect on their current system and the improvements that can be made. His fellow superintendents agree. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs superintendents we meet monthly, so we have a pretty good idea who we are, we communicate very well,\u201d said Jeff Terpenning, superintendent of Capac Community Schools. \u201cBut it\u2019s nice to see everybody else and get their input.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs you know we have issues around the country that produce threats,\u201d Terpenning added. \u201cHow we handle those and what we do with those is very important. Our communities need to know that we have a plan in place \u2013 which we really have a plan in place &#8211; but this is probably a more enhanced plan.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsored by: St. Clair County Community College Written by Audrey Sochor \u00a0 \u00a0Superintendents, social workers, school resource officers and mental health professionals gathered on June 27 to discuss an unfortunate issue facing the nation: how to prevent school shootings and other acts of violence. \u00a0 \u00a0Courtenay McCarthy, school psychologist for Salem-Keizer Public Schools in Oregon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feature","et_post_format-et-post-format-video","et-has-post-format-content"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Schools Districts Gather for School Threat Assessment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Superintendents, social workers, school resource officers and mental health professionals gathered on June 27 to discuss an unfortunate issue facing the nation: how to prevent school shootings and other acts of violence.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/school-threat-assessment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Schools Districts Gather for School Threat Assessment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by Audrey Sochor \u00a0 \u00a0Superintendents, social workers, school resource officers and mental health professionals gathered on June 27 to discuss an unfortunate issue facing the nation: how to prevent school shootings and other acts of violence. \u00a0 \u00a0Courtenay McCarthy, school psychologist for Salem-Keizer Public Schools in Oregon, shared expertise on her school\u2019s student threat assessment, which has been in use for 19 years. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cStudent threat assessment is a process designed to prevent actions of targeted violence in schools,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cSo that is a kind of violence when someone pre-selects the people that they want to harm, plans and prepares to carry that out. So we\u2019re talking about how to design a system to identify those threats and manage them.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0The school administers and their community partners teamed up for a two-day presentation with McCarthy, but training will be ongoing. \u201cI\u2019m helping those teams determine how to work together, to function as a team, to identify, assess and manage concerning situations,\u201d McCarthy said. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of those team members is Jeff Friedland, director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for St. Clair County. He said while the county knows what to do in the aftermath of a violent school event, it\u2019s time to get a better preventative process in place. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve been very active in the response side, at getting emergency services trained and getting equipment, so if an event does occur they can minimize the damage,\u201d Friedland said. \u201cBut in most cases the damage is done prior to emergency services getting there.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0For him, student threat assessments were the next step to keeping kids on the right track. It also gave his office and the schools a chance to create a cohesive system for all the county districts. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAt the end of the day if there\u2019s an event we\u2019re all in it together, so preventing it keeps us from all being in it together,\u201d Friedland. \u00a0 \u00a0Kenneth Nicholl, superintendent of Yale Public Schools, said the county already has a close knit group of superintendents and that this training allows them to reflect on their current system and the improvements that can be made. His fellow superintendents agree. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs superintendents we meet monthly, so we have a pretty good idea who we are, we communicate very well,\u201d said Jeff Terpenning, superintendent of Capac Community Schools. \u201cBut it\u2019s nice to see everybody else and get their input. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs you know we have issues around the country that produce threats,\u201d Terpenning added. \u201cHow we handle those and what we do with those is very important. 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So we\u2019re talking about how to design a system to identify those threats and manage them.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0The school administers and their community partners teamed up for a two-day presentation with McCarthy, but training will be ongoing. \u201cI\u2019m helping those teams determine how to work together, to function as a team, to identify, assess and manage concerning situations,\u201d McCarthy said. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0One of those team members is Jeff Friedland, director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for St. Clair County. 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It also gave his office and the schools a chance to create a cohesive system for all the county districts. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAt the end of the day if there\u2019s an event we\u2019re all in it together, so preventing it keeps us from all being in it together,\u201d Friedland. \u00a0 \u00a0Kenneth Nicholl, superintendent of Yale Public Schools, said the county already has a close knit group of superintendents and that this training allows them to reflect on their current system and the improvements that can be made. His fellow superintendents agree. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs superintendents we meet monthly, so we have a pretty good idea who we are, we communicate very well,\u201d said Jeff Terpenning, superintendent of Capac Community Schools. \u201cBut it\u2019s nice to see everybody else and get their input. \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAs you know we have issues around the country that produce threats,\u201d Terpenning added. \u201cHow we handle those and what we do with those is very important. 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