Responding to Student Threats

The Tennessee School Safety Center invites you to attend a seminar in your region presented by Dr. Ken Strong, a licensed counseling psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist having extensive clinical and administrative experience in responding to (assessing & managing) student threats of violence. Both the FBI and Secret Service/Department of Education studies recommended that school personnel be trained to screen student threats. The University of Virginia Youth Violence Project field tested the federal recommendations and published Guidelines for Administrators in Responding to Student Threats of Violence.

In the morning session, Dr. Strong will describe how those guidelines can be used by school personnel to screen threats. An extended threat/mental health assessment process, for use by psychologists and social workers, will be presented in the afternoon session.

Dr. Ken Strong is a licensed Counseling Psychologist/Health Services Provider and Nationally Certified School Psychologist with 21 years of service with the Memphis City Schools (MCS). He has served as Supervising Psychologist with the district’s Mental Health Center, as Coordinator of Safe and Drug Free Schools, and currently works as the Supervisor of the district’s Threat Assessment Team. He has over 30 years of clinical, supervisory and administrative experience in both public and private practice. In addition to his work with MCS, Dr. Strong has worked with the Memphis Police Department/Organized Crime Unit to develop a gang awareness, prevention and intervention manual for professional development. He developed a crisis response manual and trained superintendents throughout the state.