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:

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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.

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