What practitioners say
Unedited comments from course evaluations, published with permission. Names are shortened at participants' request.
The distinction between making a threat and posing a threat finally clicked for me. I have used the framework three times since finishing the course, and in two of those cases it changed what we did.
Dana R.
School Psychologist · Ohio
Advanced Threat Assessment
Practical rather than theoretical. The documentation templates alone justified the cost for our team of six.
Marcus T.
Director of Student Services · Texas
Building a School-Based Response Team
I have taken a lot of mandatory training. This is the first one where I took notes because I wanted to, not because I had to.
Priya S.
Licensed Psychologist · California
Clinical Decision-Making
What I appreciated most was the honesty about uncertainty. Other trainings imply that if you follow the checklist you will always get it right. This one does not pretend that.
Ellen K.
School Counselor · Michigan
Advanced Threat Assessment
Our whole team took it in the same month and the difference in our case meetings was immediate. We stopped arguing about vocabulary and started arguing about the actual case.
Robert A.
Assistant Principal · Georgia
Building a School-Based Response Team
The section on normative adolescent behavior should be required for every administrator in the building. Half of what gets referred to us is not a threat assessment question at all.
Nadia H.
Lead School Psychologist · New York
Adolescent Development
I finished it across three evenings. Being able to stop mid-module and pick up on my laptop at work mattered more than I expected.
Tom W.
School Social Worker · Oregon
Interviewing Youth About Violent Ideation
The family engagement content was the part I was most skeptical about and the part I have used most. Those conversations go differently now.
Grace L.
Licensed Psychologist · Illinois
Working With Families
Certificate came through immediately and my board accepted it without a question. That is not always the case with online CE.
Devon P.
School Psychologist · Florida
Advanced Threat Assessment
Ratings are drawn from the required post-course evaluation, which every participant completes before their certificate is released. We publish the aggregate whether or not it flatters us.