Making a Good Student of Concern Team Great: Practices and Principles

There are several seminars available that advise participants on how to establish student of concern teams; this seminar advises participants on how to make their teams operate most effectively. It answers the question “Okay—now what?”

College campuses have created teams to respond to students of concern and to address campus safety threats. Unfortunately, we don’t yet have a shared understanding of how these teams should actually work in a way that best benefits students.

To help build this shared understanding, Gregory Eells, Ph.D. and Major Gene Deisinger, Ph.D. presents case studies based on real life experiences in order to:

• Share best practices for team operation
• Outline basic principles of sound team decision-making
• Show how teams can best deal with legal and ethical issues
• Understand the current issues of threat assessment and violence prevention
• Demonstrate how teams can balance safety concerns while supporting struggling students
• Show how to evaluate options your team has for responding to concerning situations

In Making a Good Student of Concern Team Great: Practices and Principles, you will learn strategies to help teams set up processes for making consistently sound decisions, even as they respond to an ever-changing set of challenges. This seminar is offered by a director of a counseling services and an expert in campus safety and threat assessment. As a result, it blends perspectives and balances the often-competing need to provide safety to a campus with the need to support to struggling students.

Presenters:  Gregory Eells, Ph.D. and Major Gene Deisinger, Ph.D.

Gregory Eells holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Oklahoma State University and is a licensed psychologist in the state of New York. He currently serves as the director of Counseling and Psychological Services and the associate director of Gannett Health Services at Cornell University.

Major Gene Deisinger, Ph.D., serves as deputy chief of police and director of Threat Management Services for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. As executive officer for the Virginia Tech Police Department, a nationally accredited law enforcement agency, Major Deisinger provides leadership, strategic planning, and administrative direction, to ensure a safe and secure campus environment. In addition to his command responsibilities with VTPD, Dr. Deisinger also manages the university’s threat assessment and management functions.

In this exclusive online seminar, you will learn:

• How to design processes that will help your teams make sound decisions in the future—even as the challenges they face continue to evolve
• How to assess the pros and cons of various team responses, whatever the concern
• How to understand the key legal and ethical issues that affect team operation
• How to balance the need for community safety with the need to offer support to a struggling student

Supplemental tools will include:

• Questions for further discussion and self-assessment
• Sample documents
• Do's & don'ts

This is an important presentation for all who work with student of concern teams, including:

• Vice presidents for student affairs
• Deans of students
• Mental health professionals
• Campus police officers
• Residence life staff
• Judicial administrators

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