Threat Assessment Team Training

Register by March 16, 2025. Must attend both days.

This comprehensive 2-day training on multidisciplinary, community-based threat assessment teams provides a history and background of threat assessment, targeted violence, threat assessment research, risk factors, and behavioral indicators of those who are intending to commit targeted violence against others. It also provides training on the concept and advantages of a community-based, multidisciplinary threat assessment system, team dynamics, threat assessment process, and management principles.

Learning Objectives:
- Understand what threat assessment is, its purpose, and when to initiate the process.
- Understand the research in the area of targeted violence.
- Understand the value of utilizing a multidisciplinary process for threat assessment and management.
- Understand the threat assessment process.
- Understand the process involved in conducting a multidisciplinary threat assessment team meeting.

About the instructor:
David Okada, Lt. (ret.) is the Principal at Safety and Threat Solutions Consulting, LLC and is an internationally recognized subject matter expert on community-based multidisciplinary threat assessment and management. He has been a practitioner in threat assessment since 1999 and has worked on thousands of threat assessment cases throughout his career, Chairing the Willamette Valley Adult Threat Advisory Team, being a member of the Mid-Valley Student Threat Assessment Team, and coordinating the threat assessment program for the Salem Police Department. He co-authored several threat assessment articles and threat assessment investigative guides for adult, higher ed, and student models that are currently in use by threat assessment teams and programs throughout the nation. He is currently the President of the National Board of Directors of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP).