Training written by people who have sat on the team

Our mission

To equip psychologists, school psychologists and educators with the practical judgment to assess and respond to concerning behavior in adolescents and young adults — accurately, proportionately, and in a way that holds up when someone reviews the file a year later.

That last part matters more than it sounds. Most of the harm we see in this field is not from teams that missed something. It is from teams that over-reacted to a student who was never on a pathway to violence, or documented their reasoning so poorly that nobody could tell the difference afterward.

What we believe

Profiles do not work. There is no useful profile of a student who commits targeted violence. Training that implies otherwise is worse than no training.

Development is not pathology. A great deal of adolescent behavior that alarms adults is developmentally ordinary. Knowing the difference is a skill, and it is teachable.

The goal is the right response, not the safest-looking one. Removing every student who worries someone is not risk management. It is risk transfer, and it usually makes the eventual outcome worse.

Documentation is clinical work. If your reasoning is not on the page, you did not do the assessment — you had a feeling about it.

How our courses are built

Every course begins with a review of the current empirical literature and the published federal and state guidance. Content is drafted by a subject matter expert, reviewed by a second practitioner who was not involved in drafting, and piloted with a small group before release. Post-test items are analysed after release and revised when the data show an item is not discriminating.

Courses are reviewed at least every three years, or sooner when the evidence base or the guidance changes materially.

Who we are not

We are not a security vendor. We do not sell hardware, monitoring software, or anonymous tip lines, and we do not receive commission from anyone who does. We have no commercial relationships that would be improper to disclose. See disclosures.