Find School Safety Resources

These resources - including courses, guidance, and frameworks - are designed to help schools and districts identify, manage, and mitigate risks and hazards.

This resource guide provides school planning and site assessment teams with a suite of resources to improve the safety and security of schools, with information on a variety of topics including building design, maintaining safe and healthy facilities, and preparing for threats and hazards.

This webinar provides an overview of the SITE ASSESS tool and how schools and districts can use it to assess the safety, security, accessibility, and emergency preparedness of buildings and grounds.

This webinar provides guidance, tips, and best practices to integrate school nurses into all stages of school safety and emergency planning.

This webinar provides detailed guidance for the management and design of an education system’s violence prevention strategy. It features specific, practical strategies for implementing and sustaining school violence prevention efforts and includes information on the impact of positive school climate and relational strength on student violence.

This blog post explains how schools can implement Integrated Student Supports, an educational approach that works to improve students’ academic outcomes by systematically supporting their academic and non-academic needs.

This report highlights the importance of healthy, supportive relationships to positive youth outcomes. It articulates the Developmental Relationships Framework and includes sections on why developmental relationships matter; how developmental relationships grow; activating relationships in organizations; and ideas for deepening one-on-one relationships (for parents, teachers, and youth workers). 

This toll-free, multilingual, crisis support service is available 24/7 to all residents in the U.S. and its territories who are experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters. The service is staffed by trained counselors who provide crisis counseling; information on how to recognize distress and its effects on individuals and families; referrals to local crisis call centers for additional follow-up care and support; and healthy coping tips.

This guide provides interventions to treat for suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts among youth. It includes research on implementation and examples of the ways that these recommendations can be implemented.

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.