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This webpage provides tools, data, and resources to help schools meet students' social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs; understand and comply with Federal laws, including laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, sex, and disability; and find information and resources for promoting welcoming and safe schools.

This webpage provides information on what multifactor authentication (MFA) is, how to enable MFA, and why MFA is an important action to take to protect against malicious cyber actors.

This resource offers best practices, implementation strategies, and practical guidance for the design and development of services that meet the needs of children, youth, and their families experiencing a behavioral health crisis.

This white paper is designed to help K-12 leaders understand the purpose and structure of the three most common cybersecurity frameworks being employed by school systems in the United States, understand the similarities and differences among these cybersecurity frameworks, and determine whether the adoption and implementation of a framework might be of benefit to their school community.

This report provides information on cybersecurity incident trends in the U.S. K-12 public education sector based on data from the K-12 Cyber Incident Map. It focuses on publicly-disclosed incidents experienced by school districts and other public education agencies to provide insights into how K-12 cyber risk management practices are exploited and how they may best be remedied.

This fact sheet provides school and school district staff, teachers, and school safety leaders with information and strategies to engage administrators in emergency management planning in order to develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive school emergency operations plans.

This guide serves as a one-stop resource to help organizations, including schools, reduce the risk of ransomware incidents through best practices to detect, prevent, respond, and recover, including step-by-step approaches to address potential attacks.

This brief highlights cybersecurity recommendations and promising practices from states and districts across the country. It is designed to help schools build solutions for their own contexts, and offers examples from the field of those who faced challenges to connectivity, accessibility, cybersecurity, data privacy, and other infrastructure issues and designed solutions for their challenges.

This organization at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is a technical assistance and training center with a focus on advancing research, training, policy, and practice in school mental health. The mission of NCSMH is to strengthen policies and programs in school mental health to improve learning and promote success for America's youth.

This webpage provides information and resources that K-12 schools and school districts can use to support efforts to recover from an emergency incident on their campus and/or within their whole school community.