NaBITA Vision

The vision of the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA) is to make our campuses and workplaces safer environments where development, education, and caring intervention are fostered and encouraged.

NaBITA brings together professionals from multiple disciplines who are engaged in the essential function of behavioral intervention in schools, on college campuses, and in corporations and organizations for mutual support and shared learning.

Whether it is to combat bullying, prevent violence, support individuals with disabilities, empower the success of those suffering from mental health challenges, or assist those who are in crisis, our members are joined in common purpose and exploration of best practices.

NaBITA Mission

The National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA) is committed to providing education, development and support to school and workplace professionals who endeavor every day to make their campuses and workplaces safer through caring prevention and intervention.

NaBITA Values

• Collaboration
• Diversity
• Education
• Empowerment
• Inclusion
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Respect

About NaBITA

The National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM) has helped to form teams on over 200 college and university campuses since the Virginia Tech massacre. NCHERM has expanded dramatically as the result of its work on behavioral intervention, threat assessment and the elaboration of its College and University Behavioral Intervention Team (CUBIT) model. NCHERM decided to fund and staff the National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA) until it is self-sustaining as a way to give back to a community that has provided it great success.

Brett Sokolow, President of NCHERM, was quite frank in his statement to the press at the launch of NaBITA:

The partners at NCHERM had a meeting to discuss how we feel about profiting from school violence. We are reflective about our organizational and professional ethics, and none of us feels comfortable about the fact that when people die on college campuses, we prosper as a direct result.

However, we don’t feel that we are somehow chasing that business opportunistically. Our CUBIT model is free. Anyone can download it from our website. You don’t need to hire us to gain access to our expertise. We don’t put a pricetag on safety, because you can’t. At least, we can’t.

We happened to be in the field of anti-violence and prevention before violence on a mass scale came to college campuses. We shouldn’t stop serving our clients at a time when they need us most just because it will look bad for our image. We didn’t just go into the field after Virginia Tech. We have served higher education since long before Virginia Tech and will still be serving higher education when the events there are for most a distant memory and no longer a raw wound.

Yet, even giving the CUBIT model away, the impact cannot be ignored. Before 2007, we were an ambitious little mom and pop shop with one other employee. Now, we have seven consultants and three support staff. We can do things now that we could not before. So, when my wife Cori remarked that the BIT movement had grown so quickly that it needed a membership association, I realized this was our way to do something for our field. We’ve been working diligently to create NaBITA ever since. I am thrilled it is finally here. I wish I’d had the wherewithal nine years ago to launch NCHERM in the way we are able to launch NaBITA today.

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