Aligning Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management with a Multi-tiered System of Support

ALIGNING BEHAVIORAL THREAT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT WITH A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT BUILDING A CONTINUUM OF PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION

While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, when quoting, paraphrasing, or otherwise referring to this report, the citation should be: National Threat Assessment Center & Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. (2025). Aligning Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management With A Multi-Tiered System of Support: Building a Continuum of Prevention and Intervention.

The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) was created in 1998 to provide guidance on threat assessment both within the U.S. Secret Service and to others with criminal justice and public safety responsibilities.

Through the Presidential Threat Protection Act of 2000, Congress formally authorized NTAC to conduct research on threat assessment and other types of targeted violence; provide training on threat assessment and targeted violence; facilitate information-sharing among agencies with protective and/or public safety responsibilities; provide case consultation on individual threat assessment investigations and for agencies building threat assessment units; and develop programs to promote the standardization of federal, state, and local threat assessment processes and investigations.

Contributions to this document from the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) were made possible through funds provided by the Center on PBIS cooperative grant supported by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) of the U.S. Department of Education (H326S230002).

Mohamed Soliman, MA, EdS served as the project officer.

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