Blaine County District expands threat-assessment program, vows clearer parent alerts after two school incidents

Trustees of the Blaine County District on Tuesday reviewed an expanded safety program that district and local law enforcement officials said aims to prevent and better manage threats to schools and to improve parent communications after two recent incidents at a middle school.

The update outlined a districtwide shift toward a behavioral threat-assessment model developed by Dr. Dewey Cornell at the University of Virginia (commonly referred to in the meeting as C‑STAG), adoption of a digital case-management tool (Navigate 360), new reunification kits at every site and a schedule of drills designed to cover a broader set of threats and responses.

District officials said those changes matter because most school attackers leave behavioral clues and earlier interventions can reduce risk. “The threat assessment process is not…a crisis response. It’s a preventative model designed as a preventative model,” Jamie Delgado, the district’s school psychologist, told…