Find School Safety Resources

This webpage provides strategies and resources to create healthy and supportive school environments and strengthen students’ emotional well-being.

This online self-evaluation and planning tool enables schools to identify strengths and weaknesses of health and safety policies and programs, develop an action plan for improving student health, and engage teachers, parents, students, and the community in promoting health-enhancing behaviors and better health.

This fact sheet provides information on the safe storage of firearms at home.

This tip sheet outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers suggestions on what caregivers can do to help.

This fact sheet provides information on the types and benefits of emergency exercises, developing an effective emergency exercise program, post-exercise evaluations, obtaining stakeholder buy-in, and resources for emergency exercises. It also includes a case study on emergency exercises.

This guide provides a snapshot of what physical security measures are and how they can be implemented in a school. It highlights research-based considerations and evidence on specific security measures, as well as what to consider when utilizing selected measures in a school building.

This guide is intended to help school leaders strategize sharing school safety-related initiatives and news with their networks.

This webpage provides emergency planning information and resources for juvenile justice facilities to mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural, manmade, technological and public health emergencies.

This guide provides information for the protection of school buildings and their occupants against natural hazards. It focuses on the design of elementary and secondary schools (K–12), as well as repair, renovation, and additions to existing schools, and addresses multi-hazard design and performance-based design.

This resource helps school districts, schools, and law enforcement agencies determine the type of school-police partnership that will be most effective in their community and, where appropriate, to incorporate school-based law enforcement officers, commonly referred to as school resource officers, into the school learning environment. It includes five suggested action steps to ensure safe school-based enforcement though collaboration, understanding, and respect within a community’s schools.