Find School Safety Resources

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.

This recorded webinar focuses on the steps K-12 schools can take to prevent, respond to, and recover from ransomware attacks, as well as free services that administrators can utilize to protect their schools.

This resource provides a list of questions to help parents and guardians have a conversation with school principals about school safety policies and procedures; preventative resources for students, families and school personnel; and what type of communication channels in place for families and students.

This resource provides tips and talking points for families and educators to talk about violence with children.

This webpage offers tips for parents and educators on speaking to children about school violence. It provides information on what to say, suggested key points, and age-appropriate conversation guidelines.

This webpage includes information for parents and guardians on how to talk about mental health with children, potential warning signs that a child may be struggling, and what to do if there are concerns about a child’s behavior.

This webpage offers tips for parents, caregivers, and students on how to talk about bullying.

This webpage provides tips and strategies for school staff to engage parents and youth to prevent bullying at school. It includes information on the benefits of parent and youth engagement, how parents and youth can contribute, and school safety committees as a strategy to involve parents and students in bullying prevention.