Recent News

Share this

Read about the Work Being Done by Mark Concordia, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Homeland Security & Applied Intelligence Program

Mark Concordia wears many hats at Roberts Wesleyan College.  Mark is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice.  He also serves as the Director of the Homeland Security & Applied Intelligence Program and Director of the Roberts Wesleyan Justice & Security Institute.  Mark is an expert in his field and is a sought-after speaker in the Rochester area.  Below are a few of his recent projects: 

Consulting and Training: 2017 & 2018

•          Monroe County Sheriff’s Office:  initiative to create a county-wide threat assessment and case management advisory team.
•          Federal Bureau of Investigation:  threat assessment and team management at the community level.
•          New York State Department of Homeland Security: threat assessment and team management at the community level.
•          Federal Bureau of Investigation:  employee training on the interface between FBI employees and members of the community suffering from mental illness.
•          Fairport Police Department: threat response protocol relating to targeted violence threats and concerns in the K-12 environment.
•          Fairport School District: threat response protocol and creating a district behavioral intervention team with an emphasis on targeted violence threats and concerns in the K-12 environment.
•          Greece Police Department:  targeted violence threat response protocol.
•          Monroe County Sheriff’s Department:  targeted violence threat response protocol and fundamentals of threat assessment and case management.
•          Irondequoit Police Department:  targeted violence threat response protocol and fundamentals of threat assessment and case management.
•          Ogdon Police Department:  targeted violence threat response protocol and fundamentals of threat assessment and case management.
•          East Rochester Police Department:  targeted violence threat response protocol and fundamentals of threat assessment and case management.
•          Canandaigua Police Department:  threat response protocol and creating a district behavioral intervention team with an emphasis on targeted violence threats and concerns in the K-12 environment.

Presentations:

•          2018 Association of Threat Assessment Professionals Regional Conference
•          2018 Application of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol by counterterrorism investigators RWC 
•          2018 Safety at Houses of Worship: Presented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F BI) in collaboration with the Roberts Wesleyan College Justice & Security Institute
•          2018 Monroe County BOCES Superintendents Hearings Training: Threat Assessment Team Model
•          2018 Jefferson-Lewis-Hamilton-Herkimer-Oneida BOCES Mental Health Symposium: Threat Assessment Team Implementation

Research: Police Mental Health Crisis Response: A Multi-Year Analysis of Mental Hygiene Transports by the Town of Greece, New York Police Department and the Significance of an Adolescent  Mental Hygiene Transport as a predictor of Future Deviant Behavior.

For more news articles, you can take a look at our archive.