June 8, 2022 - Representatives from several Cumberland County agencies are attending the two-day Capital Area Threat Assessment & Threat Management (TATM) Symposium in Camp Hill.  Representatives from the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office, along with representatives from Mental Health/Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Children & Youth Services, Juvenile Probation, and local law enforcement are all attending the training.

The TATM two-day Symposium will include information on establishing multi-agency county-based teams, comprised of law enforcement, educational resources, social and community support resources, and mental health practitioners, to proactively identify individuals on the pathway to violence.  Attendees will be trained to recognize behaviors and indicators of those on the pathway, supported by FBI research, to becoming an active violent threat targeting our schools and other locations. The training will cover how to conduct a threat assessment and develop threat management plans in an inter-disciplinary team.

Cumberland County District Attorney Seán M. McCormack, who is attending the symposium, commented, “This is just the type of training and coordination amongst diverse county agencies that we need to recognize and address potential threats to the safety of our schools and community.  Preventing mass casualty incidents like the ones we see on the news is much bigger than just a law enforcement issue.  We need to ensure all the agencies and service providers that interact with individuals who are on the pathway violence are trained to recognize the signs of the potential threat so that we can prevent those type of incidents from happening here in Cumberland County.  I am very proud of how the individuals running Cumberland County’s agencies and service providers have embraced this forward thinking inter-disciplinary approach to this problem.”

The training is being presented by The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and the Pennsylvania State Police, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office for Safe Schools, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency and the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals Mid-Atlantic Chapter.