Procedures and Resources
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Threat Assessment
UAB is committed to promoting safe, secure and non-threatening campus environment. Intimidating, threatening or potentially violent behaviors are disruptive to UAB’s objective of a secure atmosphere for its students, employees and visitors.
Threat Assessment is defined as the process of gathering information regarding to understand, “why and how a person has formed violent goals, intentions, and behavioral plans; the extent to which these goals, intentions, an dbehavioral plans are stable and coherent; and how best to interrupt the goal-intent-behavior sequence in light of the person’s likely future life circumstances.” (Meloy and Hoffman, 2021)
Threat Management is defined as, “violence prevention – the actions that can be, should be, or have been taken to prevent violence.”
UAB created the Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Team in 2015.
To report a concern related to threat assessment and management, please find the BTAM Website: -
Interdisciplinary Case Management and strategies
CARE Team
The CARE Team is an interdisciplinary decision-making team using a non- clinical model of coordinated care for students in crisis or distress, and whose behavior raises concern about risks to themselves or other members of the campus community, to include expression of suicide ideation, academic concerns, health and safety concerns, or other complex situations involving a student at UAB. The CARE Team makes decisions and activates plans focused on student success at UAB.
To submit a CARE Team referral, please do so with the Student in Distress Referral form. -
UAB Cares Suicide Prevention Initiative Website
UAB Cares is the suicide prevention initiative housed in the President’s Office and provides resources, support, and crisis information for UAB students and employees. Access crisis resources, information about suicide prevention and training, and the UAB Cares digital toolkit.
KognitoKognito is a free platform available to students and employees that provides tools to learn when to have conversations with students of concern, what to say, and how to assist with connecting someone to the appropriate campus resources. The simulation-based module takes 30-40 minutes to complete.
Title IX Resource and Response GuideProvide community members with an overview of supportive measures, reporting options, and available resources. Additionally, the guides also provide language for a person seeking to support a person who experienced a form of sex-based discrimination including forms of sexual harassment.
