With the understanding that most school security failures are human failures and not systems or equipment failures addressing the human element becomes a critical factor in enhancing school security. The study of Industrial Safety offers a effective model for the behavior modification and enculturation of sustainable changes to enhance a school’s security profile. The presentation will focus on the specific processes that can provide effective methods for effecting sustainable change at the staff, student and school community levels.

The panel will include an ASIS certified (PSP) practitioner, a long time educator with strong school security background, and a senior Law Enforcement official with an school resource officer perspective.

Learning Objectives

• At the end of the session, participants will understand the close connection between effective application of security measures and the required enculturation by a school community.
• At the end of the session, participants will be able identify and utilize behavioral modification technics from industrial safety to achieve security improvement.
• At the end of the session, participants will be able to help the schools they serve to provide a security friendly school culture while providing an education friendly school environment.

Presenters*

Lt. Mikelshan Bartschi
Cache County Sheriff's Office

With a 24-year law enforcement career, Mikelshan Bartschi (Michael-Shawn Bar-Chee) is a law enforcement administrator currently over the Cache County Sheriff's Office Criminal Division, which includes school resource officers. By policy, he is in charge of community outreach and the training of the patrol division to include de-escalation. The CCSO contracts with 1 Cache County School District for law enforcement services. Mikelshan has worked in patrol, corrections, investigations, and as a first-line supervisor. He has been a SWAT operator and the SWAT team commander. He is NASRO (National Association of School Resource Officers) basic certified, as well as a certified Force Science Analyst. Mikelshan is a board member of the county-wide Child Abduction Response Team (CART), where he was the CART commander during a five-day investigation and search for a missing child in Cache County. He is trained in the Cognitive Interview, Forensic Interview for Children, and the Reid Technique. He has attended the FBI Intermountain Law Enforcement Executive Command College. He is a Level 1 instructor for Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT). He currently chairs the countywide active attack committee to coordinate 1st responders' multi-disciplinary responses with other entities. He sits on the Cache County School District's Safety Team that oversees 17 elementary school safety teams, three middle school safety teams, four high school safety teams, and one alternative school safety team, serving just over 18,000 students. He is a member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and is trained in multiple models of threat assessment, including the State of Utah's Board of Education-approved Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG). Mikelshan is also trained in Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) through TEEX practitioner course. He sits on the Cache Valley Unified Response Team which is a multidisciplinary team that identifies persons in crises, assesses them, and then offers resources to those individuals. His spouse and two of their adult children are educators in the State of Utah.

Guy Bliesner
School Safety and Security Analyst, Idaho Board of Education School Safety and Security Program

Guy Bliesner began his career in education in 1994 as a high school teacher and coach. Moving into administration in 2006 as the Safety and Security Coordinator for the Bonneville School District. While serving in that position he was named to the Idaho’s Governor’s School Safety Task Force. Also, during his Bonneville tenure, he was named a finalist for the 2011 Campus Safety Magazine’s national Campus Safety Director of the Year Award. In 2013 he left the district to form, with a partner, the School Safety, Security, Risk Management consulting firm of Educators Eyes. This firm developed and implemented Idaho’s first statewide school safety and security condition assessment. In 2016 he dissolved the firm to join, as a founding member, the then newly created Idaho Office of School Safety and Security.

He currently serves as the School Safety and Security Analyst assigned to schools in Southeast Idaho. He also serves a board member for the National School Safety Center Asso. (NSSA), a board member and President elect for the National Council on School Facilities (NCSF), a member and sub-committee chair for ASIS International’s Technical committee for the development of School Safety Standards, and a steering committee member for the School Safety and Security community. His passion is to advocate nationally on issues of school safety and security and his mission is to support the public and charter schools of southeast Idaho to helping to bolster school safety through assessment, training, and planning assistance.

Drew Necker
Consultant, Cosecure

Drew holds a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in international business. He is also board certified as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) by ASIS International , a Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator (CHPA) by the International Association of Healthcare Security & Safety, a CPTED Practitioner by the American Crime Prevention Institute, and is a graduate of both the Virginia State Police's Drug Diversion Investigator program and Gavin de Becker's Threat Assessment and Management Academy.​

He is also recognized as an expert in the security industry furthering professionalism in the field of corporate security by actively participating in numerous professional organizations including serving as the Vice Chair for ASIS International's School Safety and Security and Healthcare Security Councils, and as President of IAHSS' Upper Midwest Chapter. He has also been involved in the development of of several ANSI National Standards, written articles for professional journals and a chapter in IAHSS' Basic Training Manual for Healthcare Security Officers 6th Edition, and presented at regional and national conferences.

*Note: Speakers and content are subject to change without notice.

Topic: Physical and Operational Security, Risk Management

Credit Information: Completion of this webinar is eligible for 1 CPE credit. CPE credits for ASIS-sponsored webinars will be updated in your user profile within 48 hours of completion. Self-reporting of CPE credits is not required.