Professional Training Services- Advanced Threat Assessment K-12 School Safety

General work description:

Sacramento County is requesting proposals from qualified presenters with demonstrated experience in providing instruction on the topic of school threat assessment and school safety in the K-12 school setting.

ADVANCED THREAT ASSESSMENT: K-12 SCHOOL SAFETY

Sacramento County is requesting proposals from qualified presenters with demonstrated experience in providing instruction on the topic of school threat assessment and school safety in the K-12 school setting.

Instruction will incorporate adult learning techniques including problem-based facilitated discussions, real-world case studies and learning activities for a multi-disciplinary, collaborative and diverse team approach in threat assessment, prevention and management strategies.

The 8-hour course must be designed to actively engage participants in practical approaches in the recognition and prevention of targeted violence on school campuses. Subjects must focus on training law enforcement personnel to conduct threat assessments when there is an identified homicidal threat to school safety. Course must be designed at an advanced level to enhance participants’ knowledge, skills and abilities in a practical, research and evidence-based behavioral threat assessment methodology, investigative techniques and development of management strategies to address school-based threats.

The target audience for this course is K-12 school safety professionals and stakeholders, including law enforcement, school resource officers (SROs), teachers, principals, counselors, school psychologists, administrators, mental health professionals, and other school district personnel with security responsibilities.

I.          MINIMUM COURSE CONTENT WILL INCLUDE:

1. Threat assessment definitions and concepts
2. Distinguish threat assessment from a vulnerability assessment.
3. Identification of individuals who may pose a threat, including pre-incident warning behaviors.
4. Threat assessment methodology, including threat enhancers, threat mitigators, threat imminence and indicators of homicidal ideation.
5. Practical learning activity based on actual case studies, using a problem-based, student-centered approach in which participants learn to identify pre-incident behavioral indicators of a subject who may be preparing to carry out an act of violence.
6. Discussion of reporting threats or perceived threats including social media threats.
7. Discussion of motivations for carrying out school violence, including extremist ideologies that may be a nexus to Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE).
8. Discussion of Domestic Violent Extremists (DVE) by youths using Generative Artificial Intelligence and its impact on radicalized violent threats.
9. Threat assessment process, including recognition of biases, fact-gathering investigative techniques, interrogatory assessment questions, and evaluation of level of concern/risk of attack.
10. Threat management strategies, including mental health, administrative, civil and criminal strategies.
11. Potential obstacles and challenges to utilizing threat management strategies.
12. Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVRO), including execution of a lawful search warrant.
13. State of California Education Codes relating to Threats of Homicide at School and School Safety.
14. Essential elements of State of California Welfare and Institutions Code, Tarasoff Duty, and Penal Code relating to mental health, weapons seizure, potential criminal conduct.
15. Practical applications of threat monitoring.
16. A second student-centered activity to engage participants in a cohort learning model to apply acquired knowledge, skills and abilities to a realistic, school-based threat. Outcomes to include use of the threat assessment process, investigative techniques, threat management strategies and threat monitoring.
17. Discussion of the process to develop a potential school safety prevention plan.
18. Exploration of essential documentation for prosecution and liability.
19. Discussion of appropriate interviewing techniques.
20. Discussion of child access prevention laws and laws relating to the safe storage of firearms

II.        COURSE CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

The eight (8)-hour course must be certified by California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). This class must be approved for our use by California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) by the time of delivery. 

III.       COUNTY CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS

Upon selection, training provider will sign a one (1)-year contract to provide up to eight (8) in-person presentations of the above stated training content in Section I. This County contract will be written with the option, upon mutual agreement, to sign two (2) additional one (1)-year renewals, for a total of three (3) years.

IV.       AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY

Central California Intelligence Center has an area of responsibility spanning thirty-four counties, from the Oregon border to Bakersfield. Because of this area, training classes will often be held outside the Sacramento region, making travel necessary. The following are the counties covered by the Central California Intelligence Center:

Northern Region

Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Colusa, Yuba, Sutter

Central Region

Yolo, Solano, Sacramento, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, San Joaquin, Calaveras, Stanislaus, Alpine, Mono, Inyo, Amador

Southern Region

Tuolumne, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Mariposa

By submitting a proposal, it is with the understanding that a course could be presented in any of these locations at any time.

V.         FINANCIAL EXPECTATIONS

When determining course costs, consider the following: mileage; airline costs; rental car costs; travel time; cost of meals, lodging, and fuel; cost of any published course materials needed to present the training curriculum. Each of these should be taken into consideration when drafting proposal. Cost proposal must be itemized to include these items that apply to the course. Neither the Central California Intelligence Center nor the County of Sacramento will be responsible for any additional costs outside of the agreed upon contract price.