Last week’s shooting of 19 elementary school children in Uvalde, Texas has renewed calls for gun control legislation at the state and federal level. But while passage of a national gun reform remains elusive, a school district in Oregon pioneered a student behavioral threat assessment program to prevent school shootings from happening. It relies on a team of experts drawn from the school, community and law enforcement to quickly assess threatening behaviors and communications made by a student and respond with a range of interventions designed to support the student at home and at school. Courtenay McCarthy, a school psychologist at the Salem-Keizer school district, explains how the program works and the impact it’s having in Salem and beyond.