Every Signal Deserves a Coordinated Response
Bring suicide risk screening and behavioral threat assessment into Branching Minds so safety insights are connected to the student support work your team already does.
With the Canopy add-on, Branching Minds partners can:
- Turn safety signals into coordinated support and MTSS insights into a stronger safety response
- Standardize assessment and risk classification across every campus
- Ensure critical visibility into active and historical cases
- Protect sensitive information with user-level access controls and the same FERPA-compliant security already built into Branching Minds.
Sensitive Cases Need More Than a Spreadsheet
Behavioral threat and suicide risk assessment are among the most sensitive situations your district faces. And for many districts, they're still being managed outside a dedicated and secure system.
Consistency can't be built on a shared drive
A spreadsheet closes when the case does
Follow-through depends on someone remembering
"Canopy is well built in terms of steps - walking administrators through the process of doing suicide and behavioral threat assessments, so we are gathering all of that data into a single, secure place, where it can be referenced by those that need it in the future."
Stephen Prange
Director of Data, Assessment, and Mathematics, Teton County School District , WY
"Before Canopy, things were a hot mess. Now, we're all trained in C-STAG protocol, and our teams love having the decision tree pop up in Canopy to guide them through evaluations. "
Dawn Baumgartner
Coordinator of Social Services & Wellness, Phoenix Elementary School District #1, AZ
"With Canopy, overseeing suicide risk screening and behavioral threat assessment is much easier, and much clearer. … And then I can see all of that information across the whole district."
Dr. Jessica M. Plaza
Director of Student Supports and Services, Evanston Skokie, IL
"Canopy is doing for us in the realm of school safety what Branching Minds did for us years ago, which is giving us insight into what is happening across our district, where things are similar, where they’re different, where we have areas of higher need. It’s allowing us to re-evaluate from a lens of safety and student behavior that we’ve never done before."
Dr. Katie Ahsell
Assistant Superintendent, Community Consolidated School District 59, IL
A Better Way to Support Unmet Needs
Why We Built Canopy
Behind every behavioral threat assessment and suicide risk screening is a student with unmet needs. Districts told us they needed a better way to support them.
Built for the Complexity Your Safety Teams Face Every Day
Evidence-Based Evaluation Workflows
Conduct suicide risk screening and behavioral threat assessment with guided workflows that walk your team through each step, reducing variability across schools and staff.
Full Student Context
See academic performance, behavior incidents, attendance, support plans, and family communications alongside every case, without switching systems.
Centralized Case Records
Replace paper files and shared drives with a single, secure system. Every case — decisions made, actions taken, follow-up completed — is documented, trackable, and printable for reporting.
Built-In Task Management & Accountability
Assign next steps, set due dates, and track follow-up across cases and protocols. A list view surfaces what's pending so critical concerns don't fall through the cracks.
District-Wide Visibility Into All Cases
Give district leaders and safety stakeholders a real-time view across schools — active cases, risk classifications, case status, and accountability for follow-through.
From Safety to Support
Move directly from threat or risk evaluation to targeted intervention planning. Connect what the assessment revealed about a student's needs to evidence-based support plans in Branching Minds.
Works Inside the Branching Minds Platform Your District Already Runs On
From Concern → to Coordinated Support
Evaluate the Risk
Guided assessment workflows built in. Student context visible at the moment of assessment. Assigned follow-up tasks so nothing falls through the cracks.
Document & Coordinate
Teams assign next steps, track follow-up, and maintain a complete, auditable case record within the Branching Minds platform. District leaders see the status of every case, across every school, in real time.
Connect to Student Support
Move directly from assessment findings to a targeted MTSS intervention plan — connecting the signals revealed to the coordinated student support your team is equipped to provide.
Many districts are navigating increasing state-level requirements around threat assessment documentation and suicide risk screening.
Add the School Safety Infrastructure States Are Prioritizing
Your district already uses Branching Minds to identify student needs early and coordinate support. Canopy adds the missing connection so students aren't just assessed for safety—they're supported beyond it.
As states raise expectations around school safety compliance, having a dedicated, connected system matters more than ever.
100% of threats are a signal that a student needs support, not just a safety protocol.
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Behavior & Safety Resources
Guide
Incorporating Threat Assessment and Suicide Risk, Response into MTSS
Learn how to integrate these vital components into your school safety and well-being.
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