This Week in School and Campus Safety

Good morning,

This Weekly Update by the Illinois School and Campus Safety Program links to a Trauma Sensitive Schools Training Package from the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, shares the U.S. Surgeon General's advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, 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
Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package

The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments' Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package includes information on implementation, understanding trauma and its impact, building trauma-sensitive schools, and leading trauma-sensitive schools. According to the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, "the Trauma-Sensitive Schools Training Package offers school and district administrators and staff a framework and roadmap for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach school- or district wide."
Social Media and Youth Mental Health

The U.S. Surgeon General recently released an advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health. According to the advisory, "Up to 95% of youth ages 13–17 report using a social media platform, with more than a third saying they use social media 'almost constantly,'" and "although age 13 is commonly the required
minimum age used by social media platforms in the U.S., nearly 40% of children ages 8–12 use social media." The advisory includes information on the positive and negative impacts on youth, scientific evidence driving mental health concerns, evidence gaps, and even potential actions to take.
Upcoming Session of Preventing Targeted Violence Through Leakage and Cyber Investigations
July 17-18th in Norridge

The Illinois School and Campus Safety Program is pleased to announce the class Preventing Targeted Violence Through Leakage and Cyber Investigations will be held 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