Thursday, January 8, 2026
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Address Underlying Mental Health & Social Concerns with Confidence, Consistency & Compliance

A well-trained and engaged threat assessment team is uniquely positioned to engage in early intervention, prevention, and management of threatening and hostile campus situations.  

Intervene Early and Effectively To Protect Your Students and Campus

Gather your key campus stakeholders and join us on January 8, 2026, as our engaging experts will conduct a fast-paced review of best practices in BAIT/BIT development and operation, share the latest data on the increased needs and issues associated with mental health conditions, and explore strategies to best train and utilize your BAIT/BIT members. 

Adopt evidence-based frameworks; develop secure, clear communication protocols for reporting and sharing threat information within the institution and with external partners; and pair threat assessment with behavioral intervention teams to address underlying mental health or social concerns with confidence and compliance. 

Topics Covered

Gain crucial and actionable takeaways that will help you to: 

• Integrate threat assessment into a larger behavioral intervention approach for early identification and encouraging communities to refer concerns with a wide net and low threshold.
• Review best practices for forming, operating, and improving an effective threat assessment team on your campus.
• Utilize proven tools and response protocols to engage key campus stakeholders in fostering a collaborative approach to assisting students in crisis or at risk.
• Create timely response protocols to systematically address reports of unusual behavior, risk taking behavior, self-harm ideation, and threats to the community to ensure concerns are expressed effectively and consistently.
• Initiate a campus-wide dialogue with faculty, staff, administration, and students on the current mental health crisis and campus policies that address “students of concern” and utilization of your BIT/BAIT team.
• Integrate health and mental health awareness into everyday interactions and campus culture, so you can proactively engage students early and connect them with resources before crises develop. 

Presenters

Dr. Grant L. Azdell currently serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, and is a Professor at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.
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Jennifer Tabacco is the Director of Threat Assessment at Old Dominion University.
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