Threat assessment is a thorough process including interviews with student(s), family, law enforcement, and school personnel or other collateral persons; data collection to corroborate facts; and uses specific questioning to assess threat risk in situations that a person (ex. youth) has made a specific threat toward a school, individual, or group of persons and/or has brought a weapon to school. This could include if an individual has made a threat on social media. Assessors have been trained by Sigma Threat Management Associates. Schools contracted with Carroll Institute take first priority.