Events

This in-person event explores current, emerging, and innovative strategies, policies, programs, practices, and research related to advancing the prevention of substance use. The 2025 theme, "Telling the Prevention Story," underscores sharing the successes of prevention and inspiring action.

This virtual training features a facilitated discussion with school and district leaders on their experiences with managing anonymous threats of violence. The discussion covers anonymous threat trends affecting K-12 schools, the criticality of early awareness and deterrence of future threats, key partners in addressing threats, and appropriate response actions.

This webinar leads participants through a simulated data breach and explores how to assess online educational technology for privacy protections and general FERPA compliance.

This webinar covers the warning signs of possible human trafficking or child exploitation, a comprehensive approach to working with and educating youth, and best practices for K-12 educators on how to report and respond to trafficking and exploitation concerns. It features a panel presentation with anti-human trafficking advocates and experts with lived experience, who discuss how to connect students and staff to human trafficking and child exploitation prevention work, understanding the nuances of labor trafficking, and appropriate prevention education communication strategies for younger students.

This webinar dives into scenarios faced by schools and districts and highlights the Privacy Technical Assistance Center's research on transparency.

This webinar covers what human trafficking is, who trafficking affects and how traffickers operate, indicators of potential human trafficking situations, and resources available to support communities.

This webinar, led by a panel of law enforcement and school safety professionals, shares insights on securing extracurricular events. It focuses on strategies to enhance collaboration between law enforcement officers, school staff, and other stakeholders to prepare safety plans designed to enhance security, operationalize these plans, and conduct effective post-event debriefings that inform future operations.

In this virtual training event, NTAC researchers highlight the key findings and implications from their research on school violence prevention. In this training, you will learn about the background, thinking, and behavior of school attackers and how some schools discovered and stopped plots before violence occurred. This training will provide guidance on how schools may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model.

This webinar covers the basics of FERPA and provides training on current data security best practices for education data systems.

This webinar explores how schools and correctional facilities can better support children of incarcerated parents. Panelists discuss how educators can recognize and address their own implicit biases; create affirming spaces for children of incarcerated parents; and provide educational support for children, caregivers, and families of incarcerated parents.