Actionable Strategies for Student Support 

As the new school year approaches, many school communities are navigating an increasingly complex student support landscape shaped by digital interactions and emerging online risks.

Schools today are balancing growing behavioral, mental health, and safety concerns while working within limited time, staffing, and resource capacity. Challenges such as cyberbullying, online exploitation, AI-influenced conflicts, and threats of violence can develop quickly and often emerge through patterns of behavior that are difficult to identify without coordinated systems and processes in place.

This webinar will explore how digital environments are influencing student behavior and how multidisciplinary teams can strengthen early identification, triage, and intervention practices to better support students and reduce escalation.

Webinar Outcomes

This session is designed to support educators, student services teams, school mental health professionals, safety personnel, and administrators working to build sustainable, student-centered approaches to prevention, intervention, and support. 

Join us to learn: 

  • Why student wellness, behavior, and school safety are most effective when approached through a coordinated, multidisciplinary framework 

  • How digital interactions can contribute to conflict, reputational harm, emotional distress, self-harm concerns, and potential violence 

  • The challenges schools face when managing high volumes of lower-level concerns while determining when additional support or intervention may be needed 

  • How clear policies, shared protocols, and consistent triage practices can help teams respond with greater confidence and coordination 

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Meet the Presenters

Jess Campbell, Sr. Analytical Linguist, Navigate360

Jess Campbell is the Senior Analytical Linguist at Navigate360. Since 2019, she has helped shape and advance the Digital Threat Detection product. With a background in forensic linguistics, her work centers on understanding and operationalizing the language of risk to prevent harm before it occurs. She leads research on the language of threats, suicidal ideation, violent extremism, hate speech, bullying, depression, sexual violence, substance abuse, and more. Her efforts focus on developing linguistic technology that identifies early indicators of risk so students in distress can be recognized and supported.

Throughout her career in forensic linguistics, Jess has focused on delivering linguistic insights and technology that keep people safe—whether protecting the public, supporting individuals in crisis, or educating communities on recognizing warning signs. Her mission is to use linguistics for societal good.

Kate Rahi, PhD, LMSW, Associate Director of Projects & Training, Safe and Sound Schools

Dr. Kate Rahi is a Licensed Master Social Worker with a focus in violence prevention, behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM), and crisis response. With a career spanning education, law enforcement, and federal violence prevention initiatives, she has worked at the front lines of threat assessment in schools, served as a mental health clinician on a police co-responder team, and led strategic violence prevention efforts through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Dr. Rahi earned her Ph.D. in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, with research focused on the implementation and effectiveness of K-12 threat assessment implementation. She has designed and launched school-based BTAM programs, delivered cross-disciplinary training to professionals nationwide, and advised local, state, and federal leaders on evidence-based, sustainable approaches to targeted violence prevention. She currently serves as Associate Director of Projects & Training at Safe and Sound Schools and manages the Averted School Violence Project.