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Explore upcoming events such as webinars and conferences related to school safety.

Upcoming Events

Child Exploitation

Time to Take Action: How to Recognize and Report Human Trafficking

Department of Homeland Security
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These webinar sessions, available in English and Spanish, provide information on how to best recognize and report potential cases of human trafficking. Presenters discuss what human trafficking is; common myths and misconceptions; indicators of potential trafficking situations; and resources to spread awareness.
Child Exploitation

Activating Connections: Mobilizing Communities to Prevent Human Trafficking

Department of Health and Human Services
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This event brings together a diverse group of subject-matter experts from around the country working to prevent human trafficking in their communities. These experts discuss their experiences implementing programs to advance prevention education, professional training and screening, and vacatur/expungement relief and credit repair for survivors of human trafficking.
Child Exploitation

Human Trafficking Webinar Series - Life After Trafficking or Exploitation: Survivor Resilience

Department of Education
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This webinar highlights best practices and resources for K-12 educators on the importance of resilience in overcoming adverse experiences and trauma. It features a panel discussion with several anti-human trafficking advocates and lived experience experts discussing their work and advocacy as well as how school personnel can best help students become more resilient.
Targeted Violence

Preventing Mass Attacks in Our Communities

Department of Homeland Security
Date: August 7, October 1, and December 18, 2024
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.
Bullying and Cyberbullying

Responding to Bias and Discrimination in Schools

Department of Health and Human Services
Date:
This interactive workshop explores how bias, discriminatory behaviors, and identity-based bullying surfaces in schools from covert (perhaps even unintentional) behaviors, like microaggressions, to egregious ones, like hate crimes. This session describes the current context of bias and discrimination in schools, shares individual sentence stems and systemic interventions to address biased language and behavior, and provides time to practice and integrate learnings into plans for the next school year.
Threat Assessment and Reporting

Enhancing School Safety Using Behavioral Threat Assessment

Department of Homeland Security
Date: September 12 and November 20, 2024
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.
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2024 National Summit on K-12 School Safety and Security

Department of Homeland Security
Date: September 25 and 26, 2024
This virtual event brings together K-12 school leaders and practitioners to discuss and share actionable recommendations that enhance safe and supportive learning environments. It features panel discussions, sessions, and keynote speakers covering topics such as understanding and preventing youth violence, protecting K-12 networks, youth online safety, supporting student mental health, emergency planning and physical security, and restorative and intervention practices.
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