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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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Guidance
Emergency Planning
A Quick Guide to School Safety Data Visualization

Department of Justice, 2023

This guide provides important considerations for collecting school safety data as well as information on how to interpret data, how to create data visualizations, and how to effectively use these graphics as part of school safety initiatives.

Training Program
Targeted Violence
Active Attack Integrated Response Course (AAIR)

Department of Justice, 2023

This training course is designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, tele-communicator and emergency medical services (EMS) in active attack / shooter events. The course provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care, along with a model framework for law enforcement, fire, and EMS to integrate responses during an active attack / shooter event through the rescue task force concept.

Training Program
Child Exploitation
Introduction to Child Sex Trafficking

Third Party

This three-part online training course introduces the complex and multifaceted subject of child sex trafficking. By addressing indicators, vulnerabilities, and the trauma associated with child sex trafficking, this course provides a deeper understanding of the issue and its impact on victims and communities.

Fact Sheet
School Climate
Social Emotional Learning at a Glance

Department of Justice, 2023

This resource provides an overview of social emotional learning and outlines facts, common misunderstandings, and benefits of the approach.

Webpage
Child Exploitation
Child Sex Trafficking

Third Party

This webpage provides an overview of child sex trafficking, its risk factors, recent data and trends, and resources and training available to prevent and identify exploitation and support victims.

Program
Child Exploitation
CyberTipline Report

Third Party

This tip line is the nation’s centralized reporting system for the potential or suspected online exploitation of children. Members of the public and electronic service providers can make reports of child sexual exploitation by submitting an online form or by calling 1-800-THE-LOST.

Program
Mental Health
What Works In Schools

Department of Health and Human Services

This program helps promote adolescent health and wellbeing. It supports the implementation of quality health education, increases connections to needed health services, and improves the safety and supportiveness of school environments for middle and high school students.

Webpage
School Climate
Safe and Supportive Environments

Department of Health and Human Services

This webpage provides an overview on creating safe and supportive school environments and includes information on strengthening school staff capacity, increasing student access to programs and services, and engaging parents and community partners.

Tool
School Climate
Virtual Healthy School

Department of Health and Human Services

This interactive tool shows schools how to support the health and academic achievement of students through the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model.

Webpage
School Climate
Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC)

Department of Health and Human Services

This webpage provides an overview of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model, which serves as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's framework for addressing health in schools. The WSCC model is student-centered and emphasizes the role of the community in supporting the school, the connections between health and academic achievement, and the importance of evidence-based school policies and practices.

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