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This quick reference guide identifies, from a law enforcement perspective, the 10 most essential actions schools, school districts, and law enforcement agencies can take to prevent mass casualty attacks in our nation’s schools and, when prevention is not enough, to respond rapidly and effectively to end the threat as quickly as possible to save lives.

The COPS Office School Safety Working Group has identified 10 essential actions that can be taken by schools, school districts, and law enforcement agencies to help prevent critical incidents involving the loss of life or injuries in our nation's schools and to respond rapidly and effectively when incidents do occur. 

This model threat assessment's policies, procedures, and guidelines focus on providing schools with “a model policy for the establishment of threat assessment teams, including procedures for the assessment of and intervention with students whose behavior poses a threat to the safety of school staff or students.

This e-journal highlights essential Coronavirus transition-back support, information, and resources.  

This essay seeks examine the empirical evidence surrounding common security measures enacted in response to well publicized school shootings and calling for the use of an evidence based approach to school safety.

On October 19, 2018, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) summit brought together architects, policymakers, students, educators, school administrators, law enforcement and building code officials, mental health experts, and others to examine violence in schools and explore ways to holistically improve safety and security in our school communities.

This webpage links to a list of juvenile specific programs on CrimeSolutions.gov from the Department of Justice (DOJ) National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

This fact sheet provides an overview of the First Aid for Severe Trauma (FAST) training program, previously called School-Age Trauma Training program, that offers no-cost trauma training for high school students via the American Red Cross.

The Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment (EDGE) is a free virtual training platform that first responders, and now education institutions, can use to plan for a coordinated response to critical incidents.

The “Active Shooter Preparedness: School Security and Resilience” video provides information geared towards educators, school resource officers, and school administrators who serve in important roles in safeguarding schools.