The mission of UVA’s Violence Prevention Committee (VPC) and Threat Assessment Team (TAT) is to provide a safe environment for all members of the UVA community (see policy HRM-028). To advance its mission TAT uses evidence-based threat assessment best practices to asses, manage, intervene, and mitigate identified acts or threats of violence by or against faculty, staff, students, Medical Center employees, patients, and visitors.
The TAT believes early recognition, referral, and intervention are critical to mitigate a concerning situation and prevent violence.
Members of TAT treat all people with dignity and respect and believe this is fundamental to the University’s violence prevention efforts.
All members of the UVA community are an essential part of TAT’s mission and should share incidents, observations, or communications that create concern about potential violence.
Threat assessment is a violence prevention effort, it is not a predictive process or a profile.
Threat assessment and management is a dynamic investigative and operational process used to identify, evaluate, and respond to warning, threatening, or violent behavior.