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February 12-16, 2024
NABITA’s Risk Assessment Tools Focus Week

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  • Date
    February 12-16, 2024
  • Location
    Virtual

Register today for NABITA’s virtual Risk Assessment Tools Focus Week. This series provides comprehensive training on objective risk assessment tools to address critical concerns in your college or university.

Throughout this focus week, you’ll be able to participate in dynamic and engaging certification courses led by expert faculty members. These sessions provide practical solutions for non-clinical BIT and case management staff, empowering your team to identify risk levels and potential for violence, assess protective factors, and triage risks related to suicide and harm to others.

Don’t miss out on this winter’s virtual courses. Take advantage of this opportunity to gain certification and boost your confidence in managing risk at your institution.

Risk Assessment Tools Focus Week Courses:

  • NABITA Risk Rubric
  • Violence Risk Assessment of the Written Word (VRAWW)
  • Structured Interview for Violence Risk Assessment (SIVRA-35)
  • Non-Clinical Assessment of Suicide (NAS)

Learn About Multi-Registration Discounts

Registering for multiple courses or multiple participants is a great way to save.

Register yourself or your team for two to four courses and receive a 15% discount; register for five or more and receive a 25% discount. Contact events@nabita.org ​to learn more about multi-registration discounts.

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Schedule

NABITA Risk Rubric

Monday, February 12 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

The NABITA Risk Rubric Certification Course is a one-day interactive and in-depth look at the NABITA Risk Rubric. The training will include an exploration of the importance of objective risk assessment, a detailed teaching of the NABITA Risk Rubric tool, and the opportunity to practice assessing risk and developing interventions across several case studies. Whether you or your team are new to the NABITA Risk Rubric or are seasoned with a few years of risk assessment experience under your belt, this course can help you and your team calibrate and ensure effective use of NABITA’s objective risk rubric for each and every report received.

Please note that this course is focused on Higher Education and will not include K-12-specific content. To attend NABITA’s K-12 Risk Rubric course, click here.

In this course, participants will:

  • Use an objective risk rubric to standardize the assessment of risk and development of interventions
  • Apply an objective risk rubric to specific cases and presenting issues
  • Develop appropriate interventions for specific cases and presenting issues

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Violence Risk Assessment of the Written Word (VRAWW)

Tuesday, February 13 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

The Violence Risk Assessment of the Written Word (VRAWW) is an expert system designed to assess the risk level and potential for violence present in written content. Relying on research of past violent attacks and the written narratives accompanying them, VRAWW presents an objective approach to assessing risk and threat present in written content (e.g., social media posts, journals, blog posts, narratives) by weighing the risk and protective factors for the author. This course will provide an in-depth teaching of the VRAWW tool and use case studies to demonstrate the application of VRAWW.

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Apply the VRAWW to written content to conduct a more standardized, research-based assessment of the written word.
  • Identify the key escalating and mitigating factors used in a violence risk assessment of emails, social media posts and written narratives.
  • Develop appropriate interventions based on the scoring of VRAWW and the accompanying Risk Rubric rating.

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Structured Interview for Violence Risk Assessment (SIVRA-35)

Wednesday-Thursday, February 14-15 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

The Structured Interview for Violence Risk Assessment (SIVRA-35) is a 35-item inventory that is used to assist behavioral intervention team members and clinical staff in conducting a more thorough and research-based violence risk assessment. The SIVRA-35 is designed to assess the risk and protective factors related to an individual’s willingness to engage in violence.

This two-day course will provide an in-depth teaching on how to conduct an effective interview and gather information to score an individual using the SIVRA-35. This will include strategies for increasing likelihood of truthfulness, a discussion on how to phrase questions to probe for specific risk and protective factors, and the opportunity to watch demonstration videos and practice scoring them.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Administer the SIVRA-35 tool in an interview through narrative, structured questions with individuals exhibiting a range of concerning behaviors.
  • Conduct a more standardized, research-based violence risk assessment with individuals determined to be at an increased risk.
  • Use a quantitative, numeric scoring key to assist in decision-making

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Non-Clinical Assessment of Suicide (NAS)

Friday, February 16 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

Participants in this course will learn how to triage risk related to suicide using the Non-Clinical Assessment of Suicide tool (NAS). The NAS relies on research-based risk and protective factors to help non-clinical professionals triage the overall risk for suicide an individual poses. The instructors in this course will provide an overview of how to identify an individual who may be experiencing suicidal ideation, strategies for asking about suicide in a one-on-one appointment, and in-depth teaching of the NAS as a suicide assessment tool. Additionally, participants will learn how to make an effective referral to clinical mental health services and deploy appropriate interventions based on the level of risk assessed using the NAS.

After completing this training, participants will be able to:

  • Identify an individual who may be experiencing suicidal ideation
  • Recognize common risk and protective factors for suicide
  • Administer the NAS in an interview through narrative, structured questions with individuals exhibiting a range of concerning behaviors related to suicide
  • Make an effective referral to clinical mental health services
  • Deploy appropriate interventions based on the level of risk assessed using the NAS

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Multi-registration discounts are provided on a sliding scale based on the applicable registrations in the same order.

Learn About Multi-Registration Discounts

Multiple courses or multiple participant discounts are as follows:

  • 1st registration – full price of registration
  • 2-4 registrations – 15% discount per line item
  • 5+ registrations – 25% discount per line item

Please create your order, click the ‘Pay Later’ option upon checkout, and reach out to events@nabita.org for the discounts to be applied.

There are scholarships available for NABITA’s Risk Assessment Tools Focus Week. Scholarships must be submitted by January 12th, 2024.

If your application is approved, you will be notified via email 2 weeks prior to your course start date. To apply, click here.

Those attending a certification course will receive a certification for the course as well as recertifying credits (CCCs) for any current certification for a 2-year time period.

All attending our courses will receive a digital badge denoting completion.

Once you register, you will have access to the NABITA Event Lobby. The lobby contains all materials for your course.

The Zoom link and course slides will be accessible 3 days prior to the start of your course. Please note you have access to the NABITA Event Lobby from the point of registration through 3-months post-course.

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