This Week in School and Campus Safety

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This Weekly Update by the Illinois School and Campus Safety Program links to information on improving school employee wellness, shares resources for National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and promotes the upcoming classes on Preventing Targeted Violence Through Leakage and Cyber Investigations, Digital Threat Assessment®, and Advanced Digital Threat Assessment®.

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Laura Black
Program Coordinator
Illinois School and Campus Safety Program
Improving School Employee Wellness

The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors' Healthy School, Healthy Staff, Healthy Students: A Guide to Improving School Employee Wellness "provides a suggested process and resources for building or expanding an effective employee wellness initiative." The guide includes steps to developing an employee wellness initiative, discusses why employee wellness matters, provides information on building support for the initiative, and more.
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, "racial and ethnic minorities often suffer from poor mental health outcomes due to multiple factors, including lack of access to quality mental health care services, cultural stigma surrounding mental health care, discrimination, and overall lack of awareness about mental health." The webpage links to resources including an e-learning program, a guide, webinars, and the National Minority Health Month page.
There's Still Time to Register!
Preventing Targeted Violence Through Leakage and Cyber Investigations
July 17-18th in Norridge

There's still time to register for the Preventing Targeted Violence Through Leakage and Cyber Investigations class July 17-18th in Norridge, IL. Class objectives include:

• Why it is important NOT to disregard information given to LEO or school officials.
• What the term "Leakage" means and how we can interpret the information.
• Learn free and open source online investigative tools into social networks and App generated phone numbers.
• Learn to identify and collect cyber evidence to identify suspects.
• Learn the three-step process in investigating internet crimes.
• Learn the importance of Preservation, Exigent Circumstances, and Search Warrants.
• Learn how to obtain IP's, screen names, screen captures, and email headers.
• State laws: Terrorist Threat, Falsely Making a Terrorist Threat, Swatting, and Causing a Catastrophe.
• Suspect search warrant, arrest, interrogation, and mental health evaluation.
• Examine a successful cyber-crime case study investigation from start to finish.
 
For more information and to register, click here.
Upcoming Sessions of Digital Threat Assessment® and Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® via Zoom

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program, in partnership with Safer Schools Together, is pleased to announce 3 upcoming sessions of the Digital Threat Assessment® class and 1 upcoming session of the Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® class being held via Zoom.

The 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.


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.
Illinois School and Campus Safety Program www.ilschoolsafety.org