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Board approves $21,843 purchase of behavioral threat-assessment software to streamline reporting
Summary
Caswell County Schools will buy an electronic behavioral threat-assessment management system after trustees approved a $21,843 purchase to reduce staff hours spent on threat- and suicide-assessment paperwork and to improve reporting.
District staff told the board that behavioral threat and suicide assessments have sharply increased and that each assessment can take four hours or more to document in current PDF-based workflows. Staff recommended purchasing an electronic Behavioral Threat Assessment Management (BTAM) platform to streamline documentation, enable better data pulls and reduce staff time.
Doctor Jones (first reference: the presentation on BTAM) explained the system will allow staff to input assessments electronically rather than completing and storing forms manually in PDFs. The board approved the purchase at the requested price of $21,843, and staff said implementation and training would follow. Staff indicated the cost could be funded for one year using carryover funds and that renewal for a second year would depend on available federal or local funding.
Board members asked whether the platform would capture sufficient data for reporting; staff said the system would allow query-based extraction of incidents and metrics. The district will track the platform’s effect on staff time and the number of assessments processed.
The purchase is intended to improve accuracy and efficiency for staff conducting threat assessments and for district compliance with required reporting protocols.
