Events

This webinar covers trends, impacts, and essential elements of effective solutions to bullying and harassing behavior. It includes a panel discussion that highlights strategies schools are using to prevent bullying behavior and provide supports to involved students to enhance their sense of safety and teach prosocial coping skills.

This webinar discusses the current cyber threat landscape and corresponding information and resources to help K-12 schools and school districts address systemic cybersecurity risks and strengthen their cyber posture.

This webinar covers basic cybersecurity considerations for school communities; data breaches, including detection, prevention, notifications, and communications; and considerations for evaluating the cybersecurity protections offered by vendors.

This training provides an overview of the realities of bomb threats and swatting hoaxes and includes a detailed review of statistics and current trends seen across the country. The training also covers the characteristics of hoax calls, law enforcement best practices for assessment and response, and the decision-making process for evacuation or sheltering in place.

In this virtual training event, NTAC researchers discuss important findings from our research on mass attacks perpetrated in public and semi-public spaces, including businesses, restaurants, bars, retail outlets, houses of worship, schools, open spaces, and more. This training will provide guidance on how communities may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model.

This webinar discusses the science behind the impact of community violence on youth brains, and how schools can support youth in days/weeks following an incident. It also explores how school and community partners can collaborate to ensure students are being supported in and outside the schools.

This webinar highlights the efforts of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Black Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative and focuses on actions to support youth in their communities. The webinar provides valuable insights from experts and young people about addressing Black youth suicide and embedding equity in suicide prevention efforts.

This virtual training describes how federal health privacy laws, like HIPAA and FERPA, apply to protecting and sharing student mental health information. Experts discuss common school-based scenarios involving student mental health information and share how relevant resources and technical assistance can be accessed.

This webinar provides the latest information on suicide trends among K-12 students. It shares related risk and protective factors and strategies schools can implement to support suicide prevention.

This webinar explores improving systems around emergency drills through tailored training, gathering staff feedback, and identifying local resources. Presenters discuss customizing training to fit individual school districts, leading effective feedback sessions, and implementing changes based on staff input.