The New Jersey Department of Education’s Office of School Preparedness and Emergency Planning, in partnership with the Jersey City/Newark Urban Area Security Initiative, is offering basic and advanced behavioral threat assessment and management training.

Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:17-43.4, school districts, charter schools and renaissance school projects are required to establish threat assessment teams, which are meant to provide school teachers, administrators, and other staff with assistance in identifying students with behaviors of concern, assessing students’ risk for engaging in violence or other harmful activities, and delivering intervention strategies to manage the risk of harm for a student who poses a potential safety risk.

Accordingly, boards of education and boards of trustees must develop and adopt a policy for the establishment of a multidisciplinary threat assessment team at each school. These policies must align with the Guidance on the Establishment of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Teams developed by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE).

Participants can register for training sessions using the links below:

Basic Training (Virtual)

Advanced Training (In-Person)

Please note: To attend the advanced training, you must first complete the basic training. School safety specialists who have not yet completed this training will receive appropriate hours toward certification renewal. If you have any questions or concerns, please email OSPEP.