Evaluate Students at Risk of Harming Others
Understand the Root Causes of Safety and Behavior Challenges
Evaluate Students at Risk of Self-harm
Evaluate Safety Risks
Leverage built-in suicide risk screening and threat assessment protocols to understand level of risk.
Understand Root Causes
Use Functional Behavior Assessments to uncover behavioral drivers and create effective support plans.
Provide the Right Level of Support
Create confidential case plans in parallel to tiered support plans.
Monitor and Collaborate
Track every step in one secure system, with integrated communication tools and enhanced visibility, so no students fall through the cracks.
Built for early detection and response, Canopy Case Management helps schools:
Bring everything under your district canopy:
Move from reactive to proactive with:
Give administrators and behavioral health teams the ability to evaluate and detect suicide risks and threats early using built-in, research-backed screening tools and protocols.
Deliver consistent, tiered interventions through an integrated school behavior management system and address the root causes of student behavior and safety concerns with personalized, data-driven support.
Canopy Case Management unifies safety, behavior, and academic data—empowering a smarter, more responsive approach to student well-being.
Our security practices are audited annually as part of our SOC 2 Type II compliance, ensuring that we continuously meet industry standards for data privacy and security. Learn more.
Canopy is Branching Minds’ safety suite for managing suicide risk assessments (self-harm), threat assessments (harm to others), and functional behavior assessments (FBA for root cause). It helps safety teams document, track, and manage cases with clarity, while integrating that data into your MTSS ecosystem so support doesn’t stop at the safety team’s door.
Canopy supports the most widely recognized and research-backed protocols in K–12 safety:
Each is structured as a guided, step-by-step flow in the platform, ensuring teams follow the protocol in a user-friendly interface.
No. Canopy doesn’t make decisions for your team. The protocols built into Canopy—like CSTAG, C-SSRS, and NTAC—are designed to guide your process, not override it.
You’ll get structured workflows and built-in prompts aligned to each protocol, but your team leads the judgment, classification, and next steps.
Not at all. Canopy provides structure without restriction. It supports your district’s chosen protocols but doesn’t dictate safety decisions, next steps, or outcomes. Your team stays in control while Canopy guides documentation, visibility, and compliance.
Canopy creates a layer of protection—like the canopy of a tree—over your MTSS system by ensuring that safety data isn’t siloed or overlooked.
By bringing suicide risk, threat assessments, and behavioral evaluations into the same platform as academic, SEL, and intervention data, Canopy helps teams move response from reactive to proactive, risk-aware MTSS. It doesn’t just track student crises, it helps you see them in the context of long-term support.
Most safety tools focus on documentation. Canopy focuses on documentation AND follow-through. It’s designed for practicality, usability, and real-world team dynamics with features like auto-saving, pause-and-resume flows, a built-in dashboard, change logs, and individual profiles detailing the historic safety information of a student.
Canopy is intentionally focused on case management, not surveillance or automated detection. It’s designed to help teams document, manage, and follow up on student safety concerns, not flag students or predict behavior.
Here’s what Canopy does not do:
Canopy picks up where concern begins, not where it's predicted. It's built to support professional judgment, not replace it.
Absolutely. Canopy is fully FERPA-compliant, with strict role-based permissions and encryption in transit and at rest. Only authorized users can access safety cases, and every action is logged for auditing. Your most sensitive student data stays protected, organized, and accessible only to the right people.
Canopy is a separate add-on, not part of the core Branching Minds platform.
It’s designed to complement your existing MTSS workflows by supporting student safety protocols, but it’s purchased and implemented as its own solution. If your district is already using Branching Minds, Canopy integrates seamlessly. If not, it can still be used independently for suicide risk, threat assessment, and case management.