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Events

Learn about past and upcoming events and opportunities for your school or district.

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Upcoming Events

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

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Summit for Sustainable and Healthy K-12 School Buildings and Grounds

| Hosted by: The White House
This summit highlights the pressing need for sustainable 21st-century school infrastructure and the impact that facility conditions have on student and teacher health and learning outcomes. The livestreamed event also provides deeper insight into the tools and existing commitments offered by the federal government to invest in school sustainability and infrastructure.
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Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration Grant Program Application Webinar

| Hosted by: Department of Education

This webinar provides technical assistance for the Mental Health Service Professional (MHSP) Demonstration Grant Program.

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Enhancing School Safety Using Behavioral Threat Assessment

May 8, July 11, and September 12, 2024 | Hosted by: U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center
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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Past Events

Browse past events for ones you may have missed. You’ll also find supplemental event resources, including webinar recordings, scripts and more.

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Lessons from the Field - School Safety Starts with Prevention

| Hosted by: Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools, Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center, National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
This webinar provides an overview of prevention strategies, focusing on the importance of building a positive school climate, collaboratively developing high-quality Emergency Operation Plans, using threat assessments as a prevention tool, and safe firearms storage. This event is part of a miniseries focused on evidence-based practices to prevent and address gun violence in school communities.
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School Mental Health Virtual Learning Series: Mental Health Literacy: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

| Hosted by: Central East Mental Health Technology Transfer Center, National Center for School Mental Health
This webinar defines the components of mental health literacy, describes the importance of promoting mental health literacy across diverse youth-serving settings, and identifies outcomes associated with improved mental health literacy. This event is part of a webinar series focused on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive and equitable lens.
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Preventing Mass Attacks in Our Communities

| Hosted by: The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center
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.
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