Wednesday, January 14, 2026
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

Develop & Refine Your Institution’s Threat Assessment and Management Strategy to Instill Confidence and Minimize Fear

Across colleges and universities nationwide, concerns about potential acts of violence remain a pressing reality. Whether an implied or direct threat comes from a student, former student, employee, or outside individual, it’s essential that every institution have a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and proactive process to assess and manage threats before harm occurs.

Join us on January 14, 2026 when Tony Callisto, recently retired Senior Vice President for Safety & Chief Law Enforcement Officer at Syracuse University and Principal Consultant at Callisto Consulting, will share expert insights on developing and refining your institution’s threat assessment and management strategy.

Explore how to:

• Educate and train your campus community to remain aware of potential threats and respond appropriately.
• Identify and define behaviors of concern that may indicate risk to individuals or the broader community.
• Establish or strengthen a multidisciplinary threat assessment team and clear response procedures.
• Promote transparency and communication, ensuring the community knows how and when to report alarming behaviors.

Maintaining campus safety requires continuous vigilance, communication, and collaboration. Learn how to foster a culture that minimizes fear, builds trust, and enhances confidence across your campus community.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Design or enhance your campus threat assessment and management program by creating a comprehensive “potential threat” triage process and a structured, step-by-step threat assessment system tailored to your institution.
• Build and refine your multidisciplinary threat assessment team by establishing effective procedures for managing behavioral concerns and implementing proactive engagement strategies with campus stakeholders.
• Develop targeted safety planning measures that clearly define and categorize behaviors and threats that pose potential risks to your campus community.
• Clarify law enforcement roles and response protocols that outline clear expectations and coordination procedures between campus units and law enforcement partners.
• Promote proactive community awareness and involvement by designing and delivering presentations that encourage reporting of suspicious activity, unusual behavior, and potential threats, while fostering trust and communication around threat management processes.
• Instill confidence that your campus can assess and manage threats before violence occurs.

Presenter

Tony Callisto recently retired as the Senior Vice President for Safety & Chief Law Enforcement Officer for Syracuse University.
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