Welcome to NaBITA: National Behavioral Intervention Teams

Behavioral Intervention Teams for Schools, Campuses, and the Workplace

The National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA) is an organization for the support and professional development of behavioral intervention team members.

NaBITA is committed to providing education, resources and support to professionals in schools and in the workplace who endeavor every day to make their campuses and workplaces safer through caring prevention and intervention.


Register Now for the Behavioral Intervention Team Best Practices Certification Course

Get your team certified by NaBITA. Get your campus licensed to use SIVRA-35.

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Now, more than ever, we must ensure that our
behavioral intervention teams are operating at
maximum effectiveness. Is yours?

Do you need to form a team,
increase your team’s proficiency,
or benchmark your practices against
best practices?

If so, this training is for you.


Join NaBITA Today

Members have access to Model Protocols, Membership ListServ, NaBITA Newsletter, Expert Panel, Event Discounts, and more! Learn about Behavioral Intervention Teams.

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NaBITA News

May 2013 > The NaBITA 2013 Conference Registration is Open!  Click here for more information on registering for the conference, pre-con sessions, and Campus Threat Management Institute.

May 2013 > The NaBITA 2013 Call for Programs is Open!  Interested in submitting a session proposal for this year’s conference?  Click here for more information.  Submission deadline is July 15, 2013.

March 2013 > Journal of Campus Behavioral Intervention.  The first-ever edition of the NaBITA Journal is seeking submissions for publication.  For more information, please click here to download our call for submissions.

March 2013 > Register now for the BIT Best Practices Certification Course, June 4-6 in Milwaukee, WI.  Click here for more information.

March 2013 > SIVRA-35 More and more campuses are looking to in-source the capacity to perform violence risk assessments by behavioral intervention and threat assessment teams. The Structured Interview for Violence Risk Assessment (SIVRA-35) is a thirty-five-item inventory designed by Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D., that is used to assist Behavioral Intervention Team members and clinical staff in conducting a more thorough and research-based violence risk assessment. Click here to learn more about the tool.

January 2013 > Save the Date!  The 2013 Annual NaBITA Conference and Campus Threat Management Institute will take place November 13th – 17th in Bonita Springs, FL.  Click here to visit the conference site.

December 2012 > NaBITA has moved!  Our new mailing address is 116 E. King Street, Malvern, PA 19355.  We can still be reached by phone at 610-993-0229.

Thank you to everyone who attended our 2012 Conference and Campus Threat Management Institute.  Information on our 2013 conference will be available in the spring.

November 28, 2012 > W. Scott Lewis Assumes Role of NaBITA President
Scott Lewis will hold the position of NaBITA President until late 2014.  He looks forward to working with NaBITA’s membership. 
 
NaBITA August 24, 2012 > NaBITA Announces Case Manager Initiative
The National Behavioral Intervention Team Association (NaBITA, www.nabita.org) announces its new case management initiative, and invites school and college case managers to explore the resources available from NaBITA. Click here to read the full press release.

August 7, 2012 > The NaBITA Book on BIT

Book-on-BIT-cover-jpg-smallerThe NaBITA Book on BIT, which debuted at the 2011 conference and is available on the members-only pages, is now available in hardcopy.  This 147-page text is co-authored by Brett A. Sokolow, J.D., W. Scott Lewis, J.D., Luis W. Manzo, Ph.D., Saundra K. Schuster, J.D., John Byrnes, and Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D. and provides valuable resources for forming and operating effective behavioral intervention teams on college campuses.

The Book on BIT is available in paperback for members and non-members, as well as in PDF form for non-members.  Click here to order.

 

August, 2012 Aurora, CO Shootings
NaBITA Staff and Advisory Board Members have been busy providing insight and commentary into the University of Colorado Denver’s role in the Aurora movie theater shootings.  For access to articles and video recordings, please visit our News & Events page.

Advisory Board member Brian Van Brunt’s book, Ending Campus Violence: New Approaches to Prevention, is available for purchase at Amazon.  Click here for more information and to order.

The 2012 Whitepaper is here!  Click to read Suicidal Students, BITs and the Direct Threat Standard.

NaBITA members who joined in April, May or June, now is the time to renew your membership!  Please download our membership renewal form here, or click here to renew online.