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SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment. 

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Emergency Planning
Straight-A Safety Toolkits

Third Party, 2016

This resource consists of three toolkits aimed to help schools assess, act, and audit school safety efforts. The toolkits include insights and practical guidance, conversation starters, prompts for discussion, activities, and information to aid school safety and security improvements.
Training Program
Emergency Planning
Preparing to Reunify Students With Families and Guardians Before, During, and After a School Emergency

Department of Education

This training course has been developed to help schools plan for family reunification before, during, and after an emergency. It covers how schools and school districts can develop, train, and mobilize reunification teams; how to implement tangible on-site and off-site reunification plans; and considerations to incorporate in a Family Reunification Annex.
Webpage
School Climate
School Climate Measurement

Department of Education

This webpage provides information and resources on school climate measurement to support schools in capturing data that can help identify school needs, set goals, and track progress toward school climate improvement.

Guidance
Child Exploitation
How to Talk to Youth about Human Trafficking: A Guide for Youth Caretakers and Individuals Working with Youth

Department of Homeland Security, 2022

This guide can be used by any adult who is a caretaker of a youth or individuals who work with youth through formal or informal programming. It includes information about what human trafficking is, how to recognize it among youth, tips for talking to youth about general exploitation, information about building life skills that may help prevent youth from being trafficked, and reporting options if you suspect a youth is affected by human trafficking or being exploited.

Report
Child Exploitation
Study of State Policies to Prohibit Aiding and Abetting Sexual Misconduct in Schools 

Department of Education, 2022

This report shares findings from a study that examined states’ development and implementation of laws and policies to prohibit aiding and abetting educator sexual misconduct in schools. It describes the challenges states have encountered in implementing the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Section 8546 and how they have addressed these challenges.
Report
Targeted Violence
Law Enforcement Agencies that Employ School Resource Officers, 2019

Department of Justice, 2022

This report presents statistics about school resource officers, based on data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Survey of Law Enforcement Personnel in Schools agency survey. The report provides data on the agencies that employ school resource officers and demographics of the officers. It also describes the policies related to school resource officers, including law enforcement, mentoring, and teaching duties performed; hiring processes; and required training.
Survey
School Climate
School Climate Survey Compendium: Federal Surveys

Department of Education

This compendium provides several school climate surveys administered by federal agencies for states, districts, and schools looking for additional school climate data and/or items to assess school climate.
Tool
Emergency Planning
Safe and Sound Student Club Program Kit

Third Party, 2019

This kit provides service project ideas and guidance to help students organize their own Safe and Sound Student Club, explore school safety ideas, and implement actionable school safety service projects in their community.
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