Behavioral Intervention Threat Assessment Teams: Bias Response Team (BRT)

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Mission:

The Bias Response Team (BRT) is committed to addressing incidents that may reflect bias against members of the university community and to providing support services and resources for those individuals and communities who may have been targeted or affected by bias incidents. The BRT looks to assess environmental trends and concerns to provide support to impacted students while also helping to guide and educate the university community and administrators.

Purpose:

The Bias Response Team (BRT) seeks to gather information based on reported incidents within the university community. The BRT will use this information to examine aggregate trends and form a clear understanding of university climate from this lens.

Tracking university climate concerns (bias incidents) should not be confused with Washington State Law covering malicious harassment (colloquially referred to as “hate crimes”).

Definitions:

University climate incident: Behavior, conduct, speech, images, or expression that demonstrates conscious or unconscious bias that discriminates, stereotypes, excludes, harasses or harms anyone in our community based upon their actual or perceived identity (such as race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or religion). Concerns may stem from fear, misunderstanding, hatred, or stereotypes.