Violence Risk and Threat Assessment Regional Event

Join us at the University of Indianapolis for a deep dive into assessing violence risks and threats, and gain the certification you need to make a difference. Dr. Brian Van Brunt will address all aspects of threat assessment, including intake and interviewing skills, assessing written threats, and developing risk mitigation plans.

He will provide a review of foundational concepts in violence risk and threat assessment, practical guidance on interviewing skills to gather information from the person being assessed, and direction on how to write a report that provides useful and accessible guidance to the referral source.

The class will use case studies to teach core concepts and allow time for interactive discussion and reflection. These case studies will address universal threat assessment concepts and will be drawn from workplace and college settings. Supplemental resources, including research articles, checklists, informational one-sheets, discussion questions, and training exercises, will be provided.

Attendees will receive access to the Pathways Triage and Darkfox Violence Risk and Threat Assessment systems through January 2027. Group rates are available. Email YmV0aGFueSB8IGRwcmVwICEgY29t with questions.

During his career, Dr. Van Brunt has authored over a dozen books on the topic of violence risk and threat assessment and has been an invited plenary speaker to the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP) and the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals CATAP). Brian was a major contributing author of the NABITA Risk Rubric and the creator of the SIVRA-35 Assessment Tool, the Violence Risk Assessment of the Written Word (VRAWW), the Non-Clinical Assessment of Suicide Tool (NAS), the Incel Indoctrination Rubric (IIR), and the Extremist Risk Intervention Scale (ERIS). Along with Bethany Smith, he has developed the Pathways Triage System and the DarkFox Violence Risk and Threat Assessment System, which has also been licensed to ICS as a tool for making Title IX interim separation decisions.

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