The CATAP Board wishes to again extend our congratulations to this year's inaugural Travel Award winners from Alberta Health Services and ITRAC, and to Ms. Molly Amman, JD, CTM, this year's winner of the CATAP award in recognition of significant contributions toward the advancement and growth of the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals Association of Threat Assessment Professionals.?Congratulations to each of you ?? ?? ??
Attendees had the firsthand privilege of learning from Molly Amman's depth of expertise examining the landscape of violent antisemitism today. During the conference, Ms.?Molly?Amman was celebrated for so generously - and continuously - volunteering to offer training, professional development education and promotion of the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals for more than a decade, both while an FBI Special agent and profiler, and amidst her busy consulting schedule since retiring in 2020. Currently the national Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP)?CTM Certification Chair, Molly?is also a proud CATAP member and a trusted advisor and friend to our Canadian Association. Prior to retiring from the FBI in 2020, Ms. Amman worked at the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) in Quantico, Virginia, with her case work focused on school and workplace violence, threatening communications, public figure threats, stalking and extortion, active crisis incidents, domestic terrorism, and more. She has conducted training around the world, facilitated highly regarded foundational and advanced workshops and/or special topic presentations at virtually every in-person CATAP Annual Workshop & Conference Conference held over the last decade, authored several publications supporting the work of CATAP and our members on topics related to threats and targeted violence, extremism, and the law, and co-hosted or been featured online during CATAP's webinar series. Molly's partnership with our Board Executive during the development and facilitation of CATAP's wildly successful pandemic-period online series, resuscitated the financial health of our non-profit at a critical time for all organizations, and provided our (exhausted) essential worker membership with the tools they needed to address changes to the violence risk landscape in the online threat environment. As a proud CATAP member,?Molly?has appeared in a number of television news and documentary projects, and is an ongoing contributor to the body of research and knowledge in contemporary behavioural threat assessment, and has authored numerous publications in the field, such as the well-known how-to guide, Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing the Threat of Targeted Attacks.