February is Earthquake Awareness Month. The Ready Illinois website has included information on earthquake preparedness on the Monthly Preparedness page for February 2023.

Additionally the Illinois School and Campus Safety Resource Center website includes information on earthquake preparedness on its Severe Weather page.

This Leadership Dialogue discusses the book Walk The Blue Line, which is a collection of dramatic true stories about the challenges ingrained in the policing profession told by police officers in their own unforgettable words. The authors will guide participants through a journey of the book, showcasing stories about the courage, the hurt, the anger, and the joy of these officers as they open up about the most difficult days of their policing careers. To register, click here.

The online registration for the 2023 ILSROA School Safety Conference is open. The conference, which is open to SROs, principals, superintendents, safety directors, and any other school safety personnel, will be held June 21-23 in Normal, Illinois. For more information and to register, click here.

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program is pleased to announce the class Preparing for the Unimaginable: An In-Depth Look at Wellness, Trauma Recovery, and Resilience will be held on February 23rd, from 8:30 am - 12:30 pm via Zoom. This class is for K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, law enforcement, and other school and campus safety stakeholders. For more information and to register, click here.

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program, in partnership with Safer Schools Together, is pleased to announce 2 upcoming sessions of the Digital Threat Assessment class are being held via Zoom in February and March. Digital Threat Assessment training will enable participants to establish a framework to better assess all threats by constructing and considering the digital baseline of a threat maker by locating, documenting, and evaluating social media data through a threat assessment lens. A significant portion of the day will be spent engaging in hands-on exercises on the most prevalent social media platforms and associated search applications. For more information and to register, click the corresponding link for the session you would like to attend.

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program is pleased to announce the class Advanced Digital Threat Assessment will be held on April 19th from 9:30 am-4:00 pm via Zoom. Building upon the Digital Threat Assessment class by Safer Schools Together, Advanced Digital Threat Assessment advances participants' understanding of finding and curating relevant digital information consistent with real-life digital threat assessment data gathering scenarios. Significant engagement and hands-on practice will take place as participants are assembled into investigative teams and given a true-to-life mock scenario. For more information and to register, click here.