The 17th Annual Gangs, Guns & School Violence Prevention Symposium (GGSVP 2025) addresses strategies and insights for preventing school violence, gang activity, and emerging threats to create safer communities and schools.
Topics
- Gang reduction through informed practice
- Comprehensive school safety using Safe & Sound Schools` framework
- Human trafficking groups
- Understanding the dynamics of gang recruitment and youth gang impact in a digital context
- Innovative school police partnerships for vulnerable students
- Support newcomer communities and prevent gang involvement
- AI and its impact on school culture, climate, and safety
- Enhancing current emergency preparedness and response guidelines
- Responding to sextortion and child exploitation
- Assessing and responding to gang-associated behaviors in youth
- The application of Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA) to behavioral threat assessment plans
- Firearms and gang violence: understanding the intersection
- Current gang landscape throughout North America
- Leveraging lessons from completed and averted incidents of targeted school violence
- Addressing the emerging trend of online threat-related behavior
- Impact of organized crime groups
- Threat assessment and diversified learners
- Tobacco, vaping, and practical solutions for community prevention
Who should Attend
- School safety professionals and administrators
- Law enforcement and school police officers
- Community leaders and social workers
- Behavioral threat assessment teams
- Policy makers in youth violence prevention
- Educators interested in safety initiatives
