Colleges & Universities
Below is a catalogue of courses offered by D-Prep to colleges and universities. Please note that not all courses have an upcoming training scheduled.
A Trauma Informed Approach to Accommodations for Students with Disabilities
This workshop will cover some common challenges students with disabilities experience when seeking accommodations in K-12 schools, in college/university settings, and during the transition from K-12 to post-secondary education. A collaborative BIT/CARE team can be an effective aid in connecting students who need services and support to fully access and participate in the educational setting. We will share their personal and professional experiences serving students with a range of disabilities to help them better access the tools they need to be successful in the classroom. They will present opportunities to collaborate, support and create an inclusive educational experience with students with disabilities. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Addressing Criminal and Student Conduct Complaints
School resource officers (SROs), campus safety officers, and law enforcement often find themselves in the position of responding to both complaints and concerns that have criminal implications and those limited to school or college conduct and discipline policy violations (non-criminal). SROs and campus police should have a clear understanding and accompanying procedure of how to respond to both criminal and non-criminal matters as they impact the school climate. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.
Addressing Staff and Faculty Burnout
As they say on the airplane during the safety talk, put on your oxygen mask before helping others. We will review how unrelenting stress and fatigue transition into burnout and how this can be prevented through offering proper support, re-framing, and self-care. We will also review the role of compassion fatigue and how to support the everyday work of staff and faculty to keep them in the game for the long term. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Advanced Intake and Interviewing Skills
Gathering information from another party is an important skill set that crosses over a number of fields including threat assessment, Title IX, case management, conduct/discipline, and law enforcement/campus safety. This course is meant as an advanced track, moving the conversation beyond the interviewing and intake skills outlined in our BIT/CARE trainings. Our team teaches from decades of experience with an intersectional focus on counseling, law enforcement, campus safety, student conduct and legal techniques. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/threat.
Advanced Violence Risk and Threat Assessment
This course is designed for those who have completed previous threat assessment courses and have a working knowledge of the modes of violence, types of threats and have a rubric or system they are able to use when assessing risk and threat. Our team will share advanced concepts related to social media threat assessments, involuntarily celibates (incel), the growing risk of white supremacist violence, report writing, and threat mitigation planning. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/threat.
All Hazard Emergency Response
Large-scale emergency incidents and disasters can occur anywhere. When they do, being prepared ahead of time is one of the most important factors in a successful response. This workshop will provide the tools to enable administrators, students, faculty, and staff to manage a wide variety of emergency situations. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
BIT/CARE Meeting Flow and Processes
Using the DPrep Safety C.A.S.E. model, this training helps participants understand how a case moves through the process of the initial report, analysis, assignment of a risk level to intervention. We focus on reducing bias, development of an efficacious and efficient meeting flow, encouraging critical debate, and contextual analysis. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
BIT/CARE Team Certification
Team certification involves completing a series of trainings to move beyond competence to proficiency. The course itself is based on the practical application of team foundational skills, triaging at-risk behaviors, applying threat and risk assessment, and developing and managing a threat/risk mitigation plan through the application of effective interventions. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.
BIT/CARE Team Needs Assessment
When starting with a new community partner, whether they are just forming their BIT/CARE or threat team or have been in existence for years, we like to start with a needs assessment of the team. This process allows team members and key community partners to talk with our consultants via zoom, complete a quantitative survey and receive unique feedback on how the system is working and where there are opportunities for growth. When performing an assessment, DPrep Safety looks at team functionality, processes and community needs from a variety of perspectives. This includes online surveys, one-to-one conversations, observing team meetings and reviewing advertising/marketing materials, reporting forms and policy and procedure documents. Our observations are brought together to create a report and suggestions for training and/or team improvements. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.
Crisis Management and Understanding Mental Illness for Residential Life
Residential staff will develop the skills to work with dangerous and disruptive residents, learn how to work with residents with difficult personalities and frustrating conversation styles, and address the common challenges when working iwth residents experiencing mental illness symptoms. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/reslife.
Developing Effective Interventions
This course is ideal for BIT/CARE team members, law enforcement, resident directors, academic and career counselors, case managers, and orientation leaders to review the key factors in developing effective interventions. The skills needed to carry out this work include conducting an intake meeting, creating timely documentation, and developing a risk mitigation plan that considers the individual’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, mental illness, physical disability, and religious and political beliefs. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Law Enforcement
Bias impacts the way we see the world and make choices about how we interact with others. The goal of this workshop is to better understand and mitigate bias in our processes. This training provides an opportunity to explore how each of us sees the world and widens the aperture of awareness when working with others through assessment, crisis de-escalation and interventions. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.
Documenting a BIT/CARE Case
This training provides an overview of how to create quality documentation and ensure that your team members are contributing in an ongoing fashion to your database. From avoiding short or emotional notes to being timely and non-technical in your descriptions, this training provides an excellent introduction and/or refresher to the importance of quality documentation. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Effective Crisis Communication Strategy
The purpose of strategic crisis communication is to lay the groundwork necessary for organizations to respond effectively in a crisis or significant event. While communications delivered in daily situations are important, it is critical to understand the difference between daily communication practices and a crisis communication strategy. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.
FERPA, HIPAA, and State Confidentiality
There are many ways BIT/CARE teams receive and share information within the team structure and to other key community partners. This training provides an overview of these three categories of information sharing and the limitations within each of these areas. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Gender Expression: Understanding Pronouns in the Classroom and Workplace
This workshop is about learning the terminology that relates to gender identity and about other perspectives and world views related to gender. Whether you are new to these ideas or simply want to learn more, we have a place for you in our classes. This training is not about shame, blame, forced change, demanded acceptance, or agreement. Our workshops have been designed to foster engagement for the purpose of connection, belonging, and safety for all groups of people. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Having the Hard Conversations
This workshop will review a wide range of challenging topics that are being addressed in our society including political divides, mask and vaccine mandates, social justice movements, defund the police, abortion, antisemitism, and LGBTQI+ rights. We will offer a structured approach to engage in these topics with an eye towards civility, respect and principled debate. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Helping Suicidal Community Members
This workshop will review the importance of looking for signs and symptoms of suicidal behavior and understanding how best to help them access services. Particular attention will be given to treatment resistant individuals (e.g., those who do not wish to attend counseling) and groups that historically have underutilized services (e.g., LGBTQ+, African Americans). For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
How Worried Should I Be?: Understanding Social Media, Email and Student Writing (College/University)
Drawing from his book, An Educators Guide to Assessing Threats in Student Writing, Dr. Brian Van Brunt will teach participants what to look for when viewing written and video content that may occur on social media, over email or in creative writing assignments. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Impact vs Intent: Understanding Microaggressions and Bias
This workshop will provide an opportunity to better understand and define microaggressions, the unconscious manifestations of privilege that contain the potential to negatively impact marginalized groups, using examples related to gender, culture, race/ethnicity, mental health, generational differences, physical disability, and sexual orientation. We will provide a process for addressing microaggressions, along with a discussion of good/bad apologies, how to avoid the perfection problem, intent vs. impact, bias, and cultural humility. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Managing Mental Illness
This workshop will offer practical guidance on the topics of managing mental illness concerns related to suicide and trauma. We will address common challenges when working with students and community members who experience severe, pervasive, and persistent mental illness and understanding the range of referral and treatment from outpatient therapy to inpatient treatment. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Marketing and Advertising Your BIT/CARE Team
This discussion is based on the importance of educating your community about how to share concerns with your team. We will discuss creating brochures and handouts and look at examples of PSA awareness videos and BIT/CARE websites. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Mindset Active Assailant Program
DPrep Safety’s Mindset Active Assailant Program blends the leading research in psychology, law enforcement, military theory, and experience to emphasize early preparation before an attack, attending to your surroundings to improve reaction time, and wisely choosing the best course of action that leads to a better chance of survival. Mindset teaches threat preparedness, awareness, and the development of critical decision skills to improve the chances of survival. There are many approaches to violent assailants and active shooters. Some prioritize fighting and defending against active assailants, others focus on early readiness and live drills to form habits and ensure students and employees know what to do before the incident. The Mindset approach teaches proactive situational awareness connected to practical application. We build the habits and muscle memory to respond quickly in response to the level of threat and danger. Mindset educates and empowers communities and educational institutions by providing best-in-class research and practical techniques to keep students, staff, faculty, and employees safe. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.
Mitigating Bias in Information Gathering, Decision Making and Interventions
Bias impacts the way we see the world and make choices about how we interact with others. The goal of this workshop is to better understand and mitigate bias in our processes. This training provides an opportunity to explore how each of us sees the world and widens the aperture of awareness when working with others through assessment, crisis de-escalation and interventions. This workshop teaches the importance of improving the accuracy and validity of our processes as they apply to the three critical areas of gathering information, making decisions, and developing interventions. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.
Practical Leadership Skills in Residential Life RD Training
D-Prep offers a three-part series on the topic of Practical Leadership Skills in Residential Life. Each 90-minute course is aimed at residential life hall directors, training, and orientation staff to ensure they have quality access to the latest research, guidance, and advice from our subject matter experts. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/reslife.
Situational Awareness
Attending to potential safety and security concerns in the community, workplaces, and schools is the best way to get out ahead in front of violence, crime, assault, threat, and danger. This practical and engaging workshop brings the principles of situational awareness into the hands of participants, giving them the skills needed to stay safe. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Suicide and Underserved Populations
In this workshop, we will address the specific challenges faced by underserved populations related to mental health treatment and suicide prevention. Our speakers will address challenges faced by underserved populations such as Latino, Black, Asian, and non-traditional students, with special attention to the LGBTQI+ community. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Threat Assessment Certification
D-Prep Safety works with schools, workplaces, colleges, and universities who desire to put their team through a tailored experience of working through a number of cases to receive a certification in threat assessment for their team. Cases are developed within general topic (e.g., mental illness, low level threat, outsider threat, relationship violence) and are tailored for the specific team working the case. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/threat.
Threat Assessment, Interviewing, and Report Writing
Learning to complete a threat and violence risk assessment is like learning to play chess. The foundational concepts are fairly easy to teach and understand, but obtaining mastery comes with on-going study, guidance, and experience. This course is designed to provide BIT/CARE team members working in a K-12 school, college/university or workplace setting the skills they need to understand the terminology and process of violence risk and threat assessment, practical guidance regarding interviewing skills to obtain information from the person being assessed and direction on how to write a report in a way that provides useful and accessible guidance to the referral source. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.
Understanding Bias, Microaggressions, and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
We will review concepts related to bias, microaggressions, and the trauma-informed perspective. We will demonstrate how to mitigate bias and help bring our unconscious preconceptions into the open, stressing the importance of moving forward while avoiding the pitfalls of perfectionism and political correctness. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.
Workplace Violence Prevention Plans
Required by California’s SB553 and recommended for all workplaces, these plans identify and mitigate potential risk factors for violence and include procedures for responding to violence and potential violence. DPrep Safety offers templates and can work with you to tailor them to your site’s needs. We also offer comprehensive site walkthroughs and can train your staff on how to prepare for and respond to potential violence. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.