National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) A history and overview of NTAC’s previous research and guidance
Analysis and Key Findings from Protecting America’s Schools and Averting Targeted School Violence Key findings from NTAC’s most recent reports, examining findings and recommendations on incidents of targeted school violence and averted school attack plots at K-12 schools in the United States. The report examines school attackers and plotter behaviors, motivations and is intended to inform our violence prevention efforts to our public safety partners. Targeted School Violence and averting targeted school violence case studies.
Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model NTAC’s Enhancing School Safety guide outlines 8 steps school can use to developa multidisciplinary targeted violence prevention program. This model is intended to proactively identify students displaying concerning or threatening behavior, then gather information to assess and manage risk toreduce the risk of an unwanted outcome. Provide K-12 schools with actionable, practical, and cost-efficient steps to increase steps to prevent harm and acts of violence through strengthening bystander reporting.
Founded upon more than two decades of comprehensive research, BDTA® represents the first-of-its-kind blended multidisciplinary model that seamlessly integrates SST's Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) training with best practices from the National Threat Assessment Center's (NTAC) Behavioral Threat Assessment model. Join us to uncover a new and revolutionary lens applied to threat assessment, where BDTA® merges behavioral and digital components to achieve more comprehensive and effective threat assessments.
Steven joined Safer Schools Together (SST) as a Threat Analyst in 2019 after earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. As an Executive Director, he collaborates closely with SST’s CEO, Theresa Campbell, to design and implement training programs such as Behavioral and Digital... Read More →
Tuesday July 28, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT Fuji 1/2/3