Attendees can attend the opening Keynote and lunch on Monday, May 2 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. or register for the full two-day training.

This educational Insight Studio will focus on preventing violence in community settings. Attendees will learn from threat assessment experts Dr. Manny Tau, Lt. Dave Okada and Dr. Joe Holifield how to differentiate between people who make threats to community safety and those who actually pose threats to community safety.

The first day’s morning keynote session will feature a Certified Threat Manager and his experience with threat assessment and management, with more specific topics in the afternoon. The second day will expand upon safety management and confidentiality and offer attendees a chance to provide their own workplace scenarios for personalized training.

This training is taking place in the Cal Poly Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (869 Monterey Street). This is the Monterey Street entrance next door to Eco Bambino across the street from Willams & Sonoma, follow the signs! 

Schedule:

Monday, May 2

9 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Opening keynote/lunch

1 p.m. – 4 p.m. | Full training

Tuesday, May 3

9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Full training

Dr. Joe Holifield has been a practicing clinical psychologist and school psychologist for 25 years. His professional focus is in the field of behavioral threat assessment and management. Since 2018, he has made over 25 presentations on the topic of threat assessment to law enforcement agencies, school site teachers, school administrators, mental health professionals, and directors of mental health agencies. Dr. Holifield has made media appearances to discuss threat assessment following school shootings on local talk radio and in local TV news segments.

Lt. Dave Okada is the Principal at Safety and Threat Solutions Consulting, LLC and an internationally recognized expert in multi-disciplinary threat assessment and management. In his more than 20 years in the field, he has worked on thousands of threat assessment cases. He was aa participant at the 2015 Federal Bureau of Investigation Symposium on Targeted Violence Prevention, resulting in the 2017 publication of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit Monograph: Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing the Threat of Targeted Attacks.

Dr. Manny Tau is a clinical and forensic psychologist specialized in threat assessments and active threat management, and a Certified Threat Manager. He has more than 24 years of experience in the threat management field and has worked with many recognized federal, state, county, city and private organizations in the development of their violence prevention programs and the implementation of Threat Management Teams, along with providing expert consultation and testimony for attorneys in the labor & employment, civil, criminal and family law arenas.