The College reserves the right to maintain a safe and orderly educational environment for students, staff, and guests. The purpose of the CARE Team is to provide an easily accessible communication strategy for members of the college community who have encountered student behavior, which they perceive as unusual, threatening, or dangerous. The CARE Team strives to promote a supportive and positive campus community.

The CARE Team will determine if there have been additional warning signs or reasons for concern (such as code violations or classroom incidents), classify the level of threat, and develop a plan of action. Examples of action can include referrals to appropriate campus entities and, if necessary, off-campus agencies.

REPORT IT! DON’T IGNORE IT! To report an issue, follow the appropriate guidelines below:

Online Referrals: Complete the fields in the CARE Report Form and click “Submit”.
Verbal Referrals: Call or speak with a CARE Team member, telling them what you have observed or heard, and explain why this concerns you.

All campus community members are responsible for reporting concerning behavior to the CARE Team. If an incident is an imminent threat, the observer should call 9-1-1 immediately.

CARE Report Form

To promote campus safety, well-being, and success by assisting faculty, staff, and students who are concerned about the behavior of a student through effective communication, intervention, and referrals.

• To educate the BCC campus about behaviors which are a cause for concern and how to report such behaviors.
• To promote a culture of reporting concerning behavior within the campus community.
• To develop strategies to manage violence, threats, and disruptive behavior.
• To increase employee and student awareness of the purpose of the Campus Assessment, Response and Evaluation Team.
• To differentiate warning signs or behaviors which are an imminent threat from those that are a lower level of concern.
• To provide resources and support to students of concern, as appropriate.

• Serve as a point of contact for employees and students who are dealing with a threatening, disruptive, or otherwise problematic individual behavior.
• Identify students of concern who could potentially pose a threat and assess each individual.
• Monitor students of concern and provide them with appropriate campus and community resources, as appropriate.
• Develop a plan of intervention/resolution for students by assessing the individual’s threat level by utilizing the “NaBITA Threat Assessment Tool”.
• Provide training for faculty, staff, and administrators on how to assist students of concern.
• Provide clear communication and procedures to the Bladen Community College community.
• Build strong working relationships and establish liaisons with local community.
• Review college policies and procedures for dealing with the behavior of individuals on campus (e.g., workplace violence, emergency response procedures, etc.) and offer recommendations where appropriate.

The CARE Team will receive reports of concerning behavior, and circumstances of violence, threatening behavior, unwanted pursuit, or harassing behavior. In an effort to protect the campus community, the CARE Team will investigate and respond to all reported behaviors. The CARE Team may recommend some or all of the following:

• Make recommendations to appropriate college personnel that may include, but are not limited to the actions or sanctions consistent with the BCC College Catalog and Faculty/Staff Handbook.
• Refer students, faculty, or staff to professional counseling.
• Make recommendations for the filing of criminal charges.
• Assign appropriate personnel to the subject of the incident for follow-up and observation.
• Recommend that the proper authority notify, within FERPA guidelines, the parents, guardians, and/or next-of-kin.
• Make recommendations to appropriate college personnel regarding conditions of consideration for an individual to return as an active member of the campus community. This may include requiring internal/external psychological evaluations of the individual in question.

• Tiina Mundy, Co-Chairperson (Director of Human Resources / Title IX Coordinator)
• Barry Priest, Co-Chairperson (Vice President for Student Services)
• Bruce Blansett (Dean for Professional Learning Community)
• Susan Cheshire (Principal / Bladen Early College High School)
• Lynika Drye (Director of College Readiness)
• Evelyn McAllister (Student Success and Engagement Representative)
• Alyssa VanDalen (Student Success and Engagement Representative / Disability Services)
• Terry Waheed (Criminal Justice Technology Instructor)
• Jay Watson (Psychology/Sociology Instructor)