NE Washington Regional School Safety Summit
August 4–5, 2026 | Spokane Convention Center | Spokane, WA

Join school leaders, educators, threat assessment teams, behavioral health professionals, law enforcement, and community partners for two days focused on strengthening school safety and prevention.

This conference will highlight practical, evidence-based strategies in behavioral threat assessment, crisis response, prevention, and collaborative school safety practices. Sessions will feature experienced practitioners and experts sharing real-world approaches that support safe, supportive, and resilient school environments in both rural and urban communities.

Why Attend:

• Learn from experts in school safety, behavioral threat assessment, emergency management, and behavioral health

• Explore strategies that strengthen collaboration between schools, law enforcement, and community partners

• Connect with professionals from across the region

• Leave with practical tools and ideas you can apply in your school or organization

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Kristina Anderson Froling (Koshka Foundation) is an international advocate in the fields of bystander intervention, active shooter response and violence prevention within schools, workplaces and public      spaces.Kristina is founder of the Koshka Foundation for Safe Schools, a non-profit that provides training on the prevention of school and workplace violence, education on active shooter preparedness, and consultation on post-crisis recovery. Ms. Froling travels extensively within the United States and Canada to spread the importance of preparedness and joint training between citizens, educators, law enforcement, emergency managers, and first responders. Ms. Froling started the non-profit after becoming one of the most critically injured survivors of the 2007 Virginia Tech school tragedy, where she was shot 3 times. Ms. Froling is also co-founder of LiveSafe, a mobile technology communication platform for sharing safety-related information that is used by over 100 college campuses, as well as corporations and hospitals.

Brian LeBlanc, (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is a Supervisory Special Agent in the Boston Office of the FBI, where he supervises the Domestic Terrorism and Threat Response Squad of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Since joining the FBI in 2007, SA LeBlanc has specialized in complex counterterrorism investigations, as well as in the mitigation of terrorism threats as a WMD specialist and bomb technician. SA LeBlanc has led counterterrorism investigations domestically and internationally throughout South America, the Caribbean and Africa. SA LeBlanc has also served as the FBI counterterrorism specialist assigned to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOC) in Afghanistan as well as a long-term assignment to the FBI Legal Attaché Office at the U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya.

John Van Dreal, (Chief Architect, Violence Prevention, Public Consulting Group) is a school psychologist and owner of John Van Dreal Consulting, a practice dedicated to assisting school districts and other organizations improve psychological safety and peace of mind by building effective systems for violence prevention, mitigation, and response. Previously John was the director of security, safety, and risk management for the Salem-Keizer School District in Oregon. John began the development and implementation of the Salem-Keizer Cascade Model, a multiagency student violence prevention and behavioral threat assessment (BTA) system, in 1999. With more than 30 years of experience in preventive BTA and management, psycho-educational evaluation, crisis intervention, behavioral intervention, and security and risk management systems consultation, his program is considered the gold standard by both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Education.

Public Consulting Group (PCG) is a leading public sector management consulting and operations improvement firm that partners with health, education, and human services agencies to improve lives. For over 35 years, we have helped schools, school districts, and state education agencies/ministries to identify and implement promising pathways to improve programs and processes, optimize financial resources, and promote student success. Our behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) solution manages threats to others and threats to self. It is integrated within our EDPlan™ case management platform that is used by over 3,600 school districts across the U.S. to securely manage supports to students with individual needs.