About Allizandra Herberhold, LMSW
Allizandra is the leading expert in the True Crime Community (TCC) and a Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) specialist. She created the TCC Stoplight Model using the data she collected from 3 years of undercover monitoring, direct conversation with members and her Behavioral Threat Assessment (BTAM) training.
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Today she spends much of her time directly supporting individuals engaged in violent extremism, advocating for their capacity to change and studying mass attackers. She holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work from Washington University's Brown School. Allizandra’s lived experience has been a catalyst to motivate her commitment to violence prevention.
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She utilizes a combination of personal experience, BTAM, 12-Step Model knowledge, and her Clinical Social Work background to best help those she works with. Since 2021, she has dedicated hundreds of hours to independent research on school shootings and mass violence attacks, searching for patterns, signs, and interventions to prevent future violence.
On October 24, 2022, the school shooting at Central Visual Performing Arts High School took place, claiming 2 innocent lives less than half a mile from her childhood home. She watched the news coverage live, feeling helpless, and unsure what to do to help her community. Unfortunately, school shootings have become so prevalent that she has ties to incidents outside of Missouri, too. This has inspired her to begin to dedicate her life to the prevention of more mass shootings.
Alli is passionate about the success of early intervention and rehabilitation for at-risk young people. She has seen the positive impact on families, individuals, and communities when a person is led off the pathway to violence and onto a safer one.
Experience, Training & Skills
Experience
Allizandra is the Lead Exit Interventionist at Parents for Peace.
During her time working at in-patient facilities, she has worked with hundreds of violent convicted felons, their families and the justice system. Her experience has shown her the importance of early intervention and how it can steer a person off the pathway to violence.
Training
Alli is trained in Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM), Digital Threat Assessment, and BTAM for Autistic Clients. She has done independent research and case studies on mass shootings. Alli has extensive training in suicide prevention and intervention. She has been trained in safety planning, counseling access to lethal means, and how to discuss homicidal ideation with adolescents.​
Articles
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“A violent online community radicalized a school shooter — and 6 others”
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“How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children”
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Speaking engagements:
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Africa Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (AfATAP)
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EU Knowledge Hub on Prevention of Radicalization - Conference on Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) in Brussel
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Targeted Violence Prevention and Counterterrorism Symposium
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New York and New Jersey FBI Behavioral Threat Assessment Team and School Safety Committee
Relevant trainings Alli has attended:
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Practical Tools to Evaluate BTAM Program Fidelity: Lessons Learned from Studying the Salem-Keizer Cascade Model
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Reliable, Repeatable, Defensible: K–12 Threat Assessment Interviews to Identify Risk and Drive Intervention
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Behavioral Threat Assessment in Schools
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764 and comms network identification training
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Violence Prevention Network's RESTORE training
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Countering Discrimination, Hate and Extremism in Tech Industry and Gaming Policy
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How Online Radicalized Communities Fuel Individuals on The Pathway to Violence
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Campus Threat Assessment & Management: A Systematic Approach to Identifying, Assessing, & Managing Threatening Behavior
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Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management for Autistic Clients
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Rhetoric-Inspired Violent Extremist Training
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The Lives, Minds, and Motivations of Mass Attackers
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Threats Toward Public Figures and Institutions
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Behavioral Intervention and Threat Teams in the Workplace
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Preventing Violence Through Leakage and Cyber Investigations
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Workplace Violence and De-Escalation Techniques
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Fighting Against Radicalization: How to De-Radicalize Young Men Around the World
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Basic Digital Threat Assessment
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Counseling Access to Lethal Means (CALM)
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From Grief to Grievance: Life, Love, Loss, and Lessons Learned
