Dr. Donald “Tad” Roberts, DSW, MSSW, MSCJ serves as Director of School Safety and Support Services for Meigs County Schools in Tennessee, where he leads the district’s school safety, behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM), emergency preparedness, and student support initiatives. He is a licensed school social worker, current state law enforcement officer, former School Resource Officer, and adjunct professor at Tennessee Wesleyan University. Dr. Roberts’ doctoral research focused on behavioral threat assessment and management in K–12 schools and the intersection of school safety, law enforcement, and social work. His work, The Intersection of Social Work and Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management for Schools, was published in the School Social Work Journal in 2025.