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5ReasonsYouShould DigitizeYour School Threat AssessmentsNow

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3. Up-to-Date, SynchedRosters Each night, you can import data so that each day you have full rosters for students and even staff. When building representatives fill out a form, they can click on a pop-up box and search for a student. When the student is selected, the student information such as grade level and gender will automatically be loaded into the form. This feature saves your staff time since they don’t need to separately look up key information. 4. Assignment of Subtasks You can assign parts of the threat assessment to specific people on the team when making the initial form. The communication pattern is established from the start. For example, if the social worker knows more about a certain part of the assessment, it can be assigned to that person. Everyone gets a notification that the assessment has been initiated and each person is also notified about their specific tasks directly in the app. 5. OverviewProvidedbyaDashboard A digital threat assessment tool provides you with an overview of what is happening in your school. You can customize how it looks as far as the information that is displayed. You can filter by school, grade, etc. You can also export charts and receive a reference guide quickly. You can export data by searching for a specific student and you can review it before meeting with the student or the student’s family. CrisisGo’s Safety Intervention Manager provides schools with all 5 of these features for digital threat assessments. This tool is easy to set up and to use. The last thing teachers and staff want to deal with is another username and password. Compatible with Google, Safety Intervention Manager provides an opportunity for a single sign-on for team members. It can be accessed on many types of devices, including a range of Apple products. With mental health

Your school community is most likely dealing with a mental health crisis brought on by pandemic-induced stress. You can manage concerning behaviors by using threat assessments and teams. To create the best plan of action, it’s important that there is no lapse in communication between threat assessment team members. Waiting for an e-mail response or exchanging physical papers is less than ideal when it comes to up-to-date information. Digital documentation through a threat assessment tool solves this problem by allowing people to enter information into a shared database for others to access as soon as they need it. On-demand, easy-to-use threat assessments are essential to keeping your school safe. Here are 5 reasons you should digitize your school threat assessments now: 1. Connectionof Teams fromDifferent Schools in YourDistrict Digitizing your school threat assessments provides you with features you wouldn’t have with a standard paper trail. For example, an admin panel exponentially increases the possibilities for communication. You can have district leaders such as student services, psychologists, social workers, etc. on multiple threat assessment teams located in different buildings accessing and sharing the same information. You can also set up message groups with multiple people as managers and members. If one school is having a fire drill, for example, you can have it set so only that school will be Instead of starting your threat assessments from scratch which can be overwhelming, you can use pre-loaded initial forms including those that are nationally known. You can see different styles of questions and what they’d look like on the user’s end, and then customize the questions to fit your own needs. You can create more than one form to give your building representatives a choice. alerted and not the entire district. 2. Pre-loaded Initial Forms

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