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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. 

This toolkit highlights how schools can use federal resources to address school infrastructure needs and make school buildings healthier and more sustainable. It provides an overview of the federal funds, programs, technical support, and other resources related to school infrastructure available to support state and local educational agencies and individual schools.

This toolkit highlights resources related to school infrastructure development, and those most relevant to Puerto Rico's 2022 recovery efforts. It is broken into sections based on phases of the work, from planning and design to project review, and also includes key points of contact and additional funding opportunities.

This report examines (1) the common facility condition issues school districts identify in public schools and how they have done so and (2) school districts' highest priorities for their school facility renovations and updates, and how districts and states fund them.

This webinar provides insights on safety and security design and cost-effective features to consider for new construction of or retrofitting existing school buildings and grounds.  

This toolkit, designed for teachers, offers strategies to manage their mental wellness in the context of school and personally; gives methods to support students' social-emotional learning and well-being; and provides step-by-step tools to respond to students in times of crisis.

This organization, established in partnership with the Office for Victims of Crime within the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, works to improve community preparedness and the nation’s capacity to serve victims recovering from mass violence through research, planning, training, technology, and collaboration.

This webpage houses resources to help caregivers and families understand the signs and dangers of stress in young children and includes strategies to promote resilience and support positive outcomes.

This tip sheet describes how teens may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help.