Presented by Dev Van Velzen

Date: Wednesday, June 21st, 2023

Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Description:

Safer Schools Together (SST) provides your Safety / Threat Assessment teams with the tools needed to identify if an individual is on the pathway to violence, homicide, suicide, radicalization, or gang associated behavior. Nearly 90% of today’s threats are communicated digitally. Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA®) training provides participants with direct skills and tools that are effective and can be utilized immediately by your teams. You will learn how to identify digital leakage, check to see if the individual has access to the means to carry out a threat, and proactively reduce the potential of violence within your community. You will also be introduced to Behavioral and Digital Threat Assessment Management (BDTAM) training. BDTAM is a multidisciplinary process that integrates DTA® and best practices from the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) evidence-based model which is based on more than 20 years of research.

Presented by Sean O’Neill

Date: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023

Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Description:

The majority of teens, college students, and young adults using drugs are not drug addicts: they are simply experimenting.  Whether experimentation starts with the “challenges” promoted online, vaping, trying pot or popping pills, a few bad decisions can lead down a path with many consequences. Vaping is a nationwide issue, with Vapes being taken out of Elementary schools, Middle schools, and High schools across the nation. These are devices to disguise drug use, and many drugs are now vaped today. Abuse of Over the Counter (OTC) products are glamorized all over TikTok, and alcohol and marijuana use with youth continues to increase.

Drug abuse continues to be a major problem plaguing society today. Synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, were involved in more than two-thirds of the overdose deaths in the US. Today’s Fentanyl is a pure powder being made in labs in China and transported thru Mexico by cartels. Fentanyl is contaminating all types of recreational drugs across the US, and it can make anyone vulnerable to an overdose.  According to the CDC the US has an overdose death every 5 minutes.

Marijuana use is increasing across the nation as perception of harm decreases. Marijuana on the street and sold in dispensaries today is extremely potent. The adolescent brain is not formed until after 25 years of age, and the science is extremely clear about the damage this drug is doing to our youth.  Marijuana edibles are marketed to kids, extremely potent, and causing problems never seen before from Marijuana use. This workshop provides valuable training to help identify substances of abuse, create a better understanding of the effects illicit drug use has on users, and provides an understanding of how drug use affects all of us. Knowing how to recognize what the drugs look like, and the indicators of someone under the influence, is only the first part of the battle. The abuse of illicit drugs places every person working in the public sector at risk. This session will address vaping, over the counter products being abused, alcohol, today’s potent marijuana, and everything Fentanyl from the toxic pure powder to the candy looking pills on the street.

Presented by Lanae J. Holmes

Date: Friday, June 23rd, 2023

Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Description:

This session will include a co-presenter; a survivor of CSAM who experienced online enticement or sextortion. The presenters will share the ways perpetrators utilized coercion and manipulation to elicit submission and shed light on the psychological impacts left behind. They will also discuss the practical and tangible techniques used by law enforcement and other professionals that helped survivors feel supported and led to positive outcomes. The team at NCMEC will highlight the concepts of choice, consent, and control – three themes central to the healing process for sexual abuse and exploitation survivors.

Presented by Lanae J. Holmes

Date: Friday, June 23rd, 2023

Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Description:

This session will include a co-presenter; a survivor of CSAM who experienced online enticement or sextortion. The presenters will share the ways perpetrators utilized coercion and manipulation to elicit submission and shed light on the psychological impacts left behind. They will also discuss the practical and tangible techniques used by law enforcement and other professionals that helped survivors feel supported and led to positive outcomes. The team at NCMEC will highlight the concepts of choice, consent, and control – three themes central to the healing process for sexual abuse and exploitation survivors.