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09/09/2026

New research shows how tiered, low‑intensity supports can strengthen campus m systems, and why BIT/CARE teams should map their entire continuum before buying another program. Read the full breakdown and practical steps from Chris Taylor, PhD. https://wix.to/9o1fulw

What BIT/CARE teams can learn from new research on tiered and low-intensity student mental-health support.Most colleges have more mental-health resources than they did ten or fifteen years ago. Counseling centers have expanded where budgets allow, and campuses have added wellness programs, online re...

09/03/2026

Campus safety is a team sport, but too often we wait until a crisis to meet our partners. Check out our new post, Campus Safety Partnerships: Building Relationships Before a Crisis, to learn why building relationships across campus, local responders, and leadership before an incident matters and how to start today. Read more: https://wix.to/erw3aK3

Plans matter, but so do the people who have to carry them out. Campus safety, BIT/CARE, threat assessment, and emergency response work better when those relationships exist before something goes wrong.

08/31/2026

New blog: NVE Dictionary in Threat Assessment: Avoiding the Online “Decoder Trap.” When reports arrive with screenshots and cryptic usernames or symbols, the urge to decode can mislead investigations. Learn how the newly released Nihilistic Violence Encyclopedia (NVE) should (and shouldn’t) be used by BIT/CARE and threat assessment teams. Read the full post: https://wix.to/B4mbNbd

Threat assessment and BIT/CARE teams increasingly encounter reports that arrive with a screenshot and a question: “Does this mean something?” A student has “764” in a username. Someone references a “lorebook.” A disturbing image contains blood, knives, skulls, or unfamiliar symbols. A pa...

08/27/2026

New post: BIT/CARE teams spend a lot of time looking at students who need help. Sometimes the team itself needs some attention. Workload, role clarity, capacity, and team culture all affect whether good people can keep doing difficult work well. https://wix.to/Ah1um3J

What would make your BIT/CARE work 10 percent easier? Our recent InterACTT webinar covered workload, role clarity, capacity, team culture, and small changes that can make difficult work more sustainable.

08/26/2026

Creating a behavioral threat assessment and management team is one thing. Building one that works takes longer. Michigan’s new requirement also raises questions K-12 and higher education teams outside the state should be asking.
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Six Weeks to Build a Team. Much Longer to Build a Good One.An approaching deadline in Michigan caught my attention. By October 1, 2026, every public and nonpublic K12 school in the state must have a Behavior Threat Assessment and Management, or BTAM, team. Michigan law requires those teams to includ...

08/10/2026

New blog: Behavioral Threat Assessment: Why Threat Classification Matters. Read insights from former Dean of Students and BIT Chair Dr. Chris Taylor on practical ways to make your threat assessment process more efficient and effective. Read more: https://wix.to/Ass07pn

As a former Dean of Students and BIT Chair, I constantly worried about how we applied our often-limited resources. Most of those resources, as anyone who has sat around a BIT/CARE table knows, are the people at that table, and most of them already wear two or three other hats. Add in the fact that t...

05/14/2026

New blog: What the UK’s New E6 Regulation Can Learn from U.S. Title IX Practice. Look at how England’s E6 condition reshapes student safeguarding and what lessons higher education can borrow from U.S. Title IX experience. Read insights from Dave Wilson on policy, campus culture, and practical steps institutions can take. https://wix.to/oPUiNO1

Across higher education, safeguarding students is no longer a peripheral concern; it is central to institutional integrity, student success, and public trust. In the UK (more specifically, England), the Office for Students (OfS) has introduced a new condition of registration for higher education pro...

02/28/2024

Great training today with Jacques Whitfield out at mission college in Santa Clara. Much earned break up in Napa

02/06/2024

This clip is from our free program on supporting MENA, Jewish, and Muslim students, during which Dr. Brian Van Brunt, Jacques S. Whitfield, and Brielle Stark-Adler, Ph.D. offered valuable insights and strategies for supporting students during these turbulent times. Join InterACTT for access to the full recording. Visit us at www.interactt.org.

https://youtu.be/iBabb7jjCd8

In recent months, the escalation of the Israel/Palestine conflict has presented significant challenges for educational institutions worldwide. Faculty, staff...

02/05/2024

InterACTT is excited to partner with DPREP Inc Training & Consulting Services to offer free monthly webinars to support the work of these teams.

This January, we discussed the interplay between BIT/CARE and conduct. Drs. Chris Taylor, Amy Murphy and Brian Van Brunt discussed how to balance the way the conduct and discipline office works in tandem with a collaborative team. This is a portion of that discussion. The full recording is available for InterACTT members. Visit https://www.interactt.org/ to learn more.

https://youtu.be/-mYjZQZE98k

Understanding the interplay between student conduct/discipline and collaborative BIT/CARE teams is often a source of confusion and questioning within BIT/CAR...