NaBITA Newsletter
November 11, 2015

 


7th Annual NaBITA Conference Next Week!

 

NaBITA is excited to welcome more than 450 colleagues and friends from across the country to San Antonio next week for our 7th Annual Conference and 6th Annual Campus Threat Management Institute. If you are attending, we look forward to seeing you very soon. For those who cannot make it this year, we will be sure to offer some highlights from the week so that you can make plans to join us for an upcoming conference. NaBITA looks forward to connecting with you the week of November 30th for our next Member Newsletter.

 


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Resource Spotlight


NaBITA is pleased to spotlight the NaBITA Sample Training Schedule, a starting place for BITs to develop their own annual training schedules. Please note that the following books are noted in the Sample Training Schedule, and will be available for purchase in the NaBITA Bookstore in December 2015: The 2015 NaBITA Journal of Campus Behavioral Intervention (J-BIT) and CORE Q-10 Assessment of BIT.

 


Tip of the Week


Be Prepared

by Brian Van Brunt, Ed.D.

In terms of risk mitigation, as well as staying out in front of potential problems, being prepared is a good motto. As the counseling center director at Western Kentucky University during the late 2000’s, I had a recurrent fear that I would have to answer a parent’s question about why the counseling center hadn’t done enough to prevent their son or daughter’s suicide. It was never a question I had to face, but it was a hypothetical that worried me and I prepared an answer during my time as director.

 

To read the complete Tip, click here.

 


Announcing the Conduct Training Videos from NaBITA and The NCHERM Group

A Series of Easy-to-Use Video Training and Skill-Building Tools

 

The NCHERM Group's Online Trainings now offers a series of easy-to-use video training tools to help Behavioral Intervention Team members and conduct officials hone their skills. Each video offers a brief vignette lasting just a few minutes, in which a student and administrator talk about an incident. Supplemental materials include a transcript of the video, a leaders' guide, and set of questions and answers for use in training and discussion applications, plus a set of key takeaways from each case. Buy only the videos you want for $119 each, or get them all for $419. Learn more about the videos in our series and how to purchase for your campus here.

 

 


Upcoming NaBITA Training Events

 

Advanced Violence Risk Assessment Certification Course


  • January 7 & 8, 2016
    New Orleans, LA

    Hosted by Tulane University

    Registration deadline is Friday, December 18, 2015.

 

BIT Best Practices Certification Course

 

  • June 7 & 8, 2016
    Mahwah, NJ

    Hosted by Ramapo College of New Jersey

    Registration deadline is Friday, June 3, 2016.

 


Hosting a NaBITA Training Event

If your campus is interested in learning more about hosting a NaBITA training event or need information on additional training opportunities from our organization, please email Alisha DiGiandomenico, Assistant Vice President for Client Relations, or call at (610) 644-3387.

Should your campus/school/organization look to host an on-campus, public training event, NaBITA is currently collecting Request for Proposals for campus host sites for the 2016 calendar year.

For more information, click here.

 


A Window Into BIT

BIT Meeting Simulation and Training
Window Into Bit

A Window Into BIT is a video-based training tool to enhance campus BIT and student of concern team professional development. Watch national behavioral intervention team experts and campus practitioners model a BIT meeting as they role-play key team roles. The one-hour video comes with a detailed transcript, sample documentation from the meeting, and discussion questions for your team to use as a training tool to better understand how to develop and improve BIT meetings.

What does a Behavioral Intervention Team meeting actually look like? How do counseling, conduct and residential life talk together about cases? How is the NaBITA rubric used in a meeting? When should an assessment be required? At what point should the SIVRA-35 or other tools be utilized? How are action plans developed? In what order are cases discussed? How is documentation handled? How are conflicts between departments resolved?

Watch how team members communicate with each other and put the NaBITA threat assessment tool to use in rating over a dozen varied cases. Learn how to attend to parental notification, apply OCR guidance, the ADA and Title IX to cases. Watch how the experts model interactions designed to reduce silos while building connection between the varied departments in the simulation. Listen to the discussions around mandated assessment, how counseling works with conduct, and how the BIT chair keeps the team focused and on task.

To view the 10-minute sample preview and for more information about ordering A Window Into BIT for $299.99, please click here.

 


Maintain Certification with the Continuing Certification Credit (CCC) Program

Has your BIT been certified by NaBITA? Are you considering obtaining these certifications? Do you benefit from ongoing professional development from The NCHERM Group? If so, the CCC program is for you. The NCHERM Group heard your requests to update and renew your certifications online, and is pleased to offer an online professional development platform called the Continuing Certification Credit (CCC) program.

Who can earn CCCs? Our CCC program allows clients of The NCHERM Group, including those certified by NaBITA, to track, maintain and extend their professional development through our programs. CCCs are a cost-effective way to stay current and maintain your certification from the nation’s leader in higher education risk management.

Learn about our program here.


NCHERM Group Online TrainingsNCHERM Group Online Trainings

The NCHERM Group Online Trainings is an endeavor to provide quality, distance learning education and discussion opportunities to colleges and universities across the country and around the world.

Bringing experts from numerous fields, The NCHERM Group and its affiliated associations, SCOPE, ATIXA and NaBITA, will bring you quality programs that address the most pressing needs in threat assessment, prevention education, sexual assault prevention, higher education legal issues, administrative best practices and risk management.

Recent Online Training Recordings Available for Purchase here

Looking for more topics? Click here for a list of upcoming Webinar Collaborations presented by The NCHERM Group experts, sponsored by Innovative Educators.


Resources Available for Purchase

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Coming to the NaBITA Bookstore in December 2015:

The 2015 NaBITA Journal of Campus Behavioral Intervention (J-BIT)

CORE Q-10 Assessment of BIT



Links to Relevant Articles

Suspect in Calif. University Stabbings Angry Over Study Group Rejection

 

Virginia Tech Warns Campus About Threat Made to Kill All Muslims

 

Student Said He Pleaded with College for New Dorm Room, Sues for $3 Million After Roommate Stabs Him

 

Campus Lockdown: College Campus Safety in 2015


Job Board

NaBITA has created a Job Board page on our website for you to share any BIT-related job openings on your campus. You can find this resource at http://nabita.org/resources/job-board/. Please email any position announcements to amanda@nabita.org.

 

Housing Behavioral Case Manager – San Jose State University



Membership Renewal Reminder


If your NaBITA membership expires in October, November or December, now is the time to renew.  Renew your NaBITA campus membership or join for the very first time for as low as $639! Please download our membership renewal form here, or click here to renew online. 



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