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Back-to-School Risks You Might Not See Coming (and How to Avoid Them)

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Ah, it’s back-to-school time, and the red zone is approaching. That’s the stretch between the start of orientation and winter break when our phones light up with calls from parents asking for help after their student is hit...more

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Should Clinicians on BITs Evaluate Risk?

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Clinicians play a crucial role in Behavioral Intervention Teams (BITs) and may be tasked with conducting certain types of risk assessments. However, this responsibility may not always align with their role. Their expertise is...more

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Mandated Risk Assessment of Students: Part One – Authority to Mandate

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At NABITA, we are often asked whether a Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT), CARE team, Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) team, or, in some instances, the Threat Assessment Team (TAT) has the authority to...more

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Unveiling the Culprit: How Systems and People-Pleasing Drive Burnout 

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Burnout isn’t just about feeling exhausted—it’s a symptom of deeper systemic flaws and individual behaviors. Today, it is a growing concern in our fast-paced, high-pressure world. While many people perceive burnout as a...more

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Examining the State of Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment: Part Three

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In parts one and two of this Tip of the Week series, we explored findings from the 2024 State of the Field Survey related to structural and procedural elements of Behavioral Intervention Teams (BITs). In this final...more

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Examining the State of Behavioral Intervention and Threat Assessment: Part Two

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In part one of this Tip of the Week series, we explored insights from the 2024 State of the Field Survey related to the structural aspects of team organization and formation. Now, in this second part, we turn our attention to...more

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Carl Sandburg College: Embracing a Proactive Model of Care

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Improving a Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) can be challenging. Drafting and revising policies and procedural manuals and presenting these initiatives to faculty, the Board, and the community requires a thoughtful...more

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Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 10 - January 2025

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The Georgia General Assembly got off to a fast start on Monday with the State Senate taking up its first substantive measures of the session before both bodies filled the afternoon with committee hearings. But before...more

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Tip of the Week: BIT Standards for Higher Education – Standards 16 and 17

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Throughout the BIT Standards refresh series, we have referenced the 3-phase BIT process: 1. Gather data, 2. Assess risk, 3. Deploy interventions. Standard 16 builds on the third phase by exploring how teams use case...more

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Tip of the Week: BIT Standards for Higher Education – Standard 15 

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Next, in our series on NABITA’s Industry Standards for Behavioral Intervention Teams, we review Standard 15, which explores interventions. The following will provide recommendations for best practices that can help a BIT...more

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Discipline or Discrimination? How Institutions of Higher Education Should Navigate Disciplining Students with Known or Reported...

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Colleges and universities are grappling with the proliferation of mental health issues among their student populations in the wake of COVID-19 as they deal with the effects of burnout, limited support resources, and social...more

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Three Key Takeaways from Decision on Teacher Dismissal for Erratic Behavior

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A recent Illinois State Board of Education hearing officer decision upheld the dismissal of a tenured teacher who engaged in off-topic rants in the classroom, stored pornographic images on a district laptop, and refused to...more

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New England Journal of Higher Education publishes "Support Responsibilities in an Age of Campus Suicide"

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In 2004, then-University of New England President Sandra Featherman authored a piece for NEJHE (then called Connection) headlined “Emotional Rescue” and focusing on how a new generation of troubled college students was...more

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