The role of agency leadership in the establishment and development of a BTAU includes: • promoting an agency-wide prevention mindset; • overseeing the development of agency policies for conducting behavioral threat assessments; • procuring and allocating resources, including personnel, funding, and training; • promoting the BTAU as a life-saving agency resource to other community organizations; • inspiring purpose among the BTAU and other agency personnel more broadly; and • understanding that successful violence prevention efforts may be difficult to measure with data.
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