Threat-Assessment Teams Get a Professional Group

Before the mass shootings at Virginia Tech, threat-assessment teams were largely nonexistent or dormant. Now they have their own professional association.

The National Behavioral Intervention Team Association will provide professional development and support to colleges, schools, and workplaces that use what the group calls "caring prevention and intervention" to help troubled individuals and prevent violence.

The group's president, Brett A. Sokolow, and executive director, W.

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