Stress and Management Team Threat Assessment Team

Stress and Management Team

Threat Assessment Team

Charlotte Johnson

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Establishing, training and managing Threat Assessment Team helps in monitoring and evaluating a situation, purposed to come up with the best preventative measures against violent events within college campus. Of course if a proper threat assessment is done then violent act within institution can be reduced and even stopped.

Even though managers, supervisors, deans, chairpersons, and department tend to be the appropriate counsel for the concern of the students, they do not form the correct experts that can respond to threat or any alarming situations. This means that the responsibility lies with the students, staff, and faculty in terms of reporting to any situation that might result in harm to any person within the college or university. In case a member of the campus community happens to be aware of any situation or troubling person that might be of risk or is resulting to an extreme stress, fear, or anxiety; this should be reported with immediate effect to the Campus Security.

The established Threat and Management Team for the campus will consist of University personnel with expertise within departments such as law enforcement/tactical application/threat assessment, human resource/employee assistance, communications, university operations, safety, risk management, forensic psychiatry, and legal. There will be use of collaborative process that assess threat as per the situation; also there could be an invitation to personnel with areas of specialization in assisting the Team. The UNMC Incident Commander on-call will have the responsibility of keeping the senior officials advised in terms of any arising situations and more specifically is to communicate with the appropriate UNMC Chancellor and UNMC Vice Chancellor. There is need for president office. The rest of the people may be consulted whenever there is need for example the faculty member who wants to raise an issue regarding a student, manager who possess information pertaining other students, and a counseling psychologist who is to share expertise.

The Threat Assessment and Management Team will be evaluating threats, explicit and implicit, to determine credibility and to protect the student and University as a community. This Team will adopt a cautious standard of action that reflects that of a reasonably prudent individual, (Charlotte Johnson, 2012). This Team has been established to respond to circumstances of threatened violence or threatening behavior against, students, UNMC faculty.

Procedure

Any threat related information is supposed to be forwarded to the security. Either the Incident Commander on call or the UNMC Associate Vice Chancellor for business and Finance are to first carry out an evaluation of the report, in case it is declared appropriate, they are supposed to convene the Threat Assessment and Management Team. More personnel may be added within the team according to the need.

The Team will have the task of assessing the existing preliminary information or the ones that are to be collected, for instance, interviews that are to determine the possibility of having corroborating evidence examining credible and verifiable threat; Disciplinary/judicial history which deals with admission records that are relevant and are within the possession of the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources; as well any other relevant information that are considered appropriate in assuring the safety of the campus as a whole, (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).