Find School Safety Resources

This fact sheet includes information on the most common online threats students face and describes how school and school district administrators can prepare and respond to online threats.

This resource package offers school and district administrators and staff a framework and roadmap for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach school- or district wide. It includes a variety of resources for educating school staff about trauma and trauma-sensitive practices and for providing school leaders with a step-by-step process for implementing a universal, trauma-informed approach using package materials.

This webpage provides information to help understand the linkages between trauma and homelessness, and the impact on ensuring quality care.

This webpage provides the general public with information on the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s efforts to develop clinical treatments, mental health interventions, and other trauma-informed service approaches as a means of promoting the network’s mission of raising the standard of care for traumatized youth and families.

This toolkit is an online collection of resources for victim-serving organizations to assess the impact of vicarious trauma on counselors of victims. This toolkit provides an assessment that analyzes the current response to vicarious trauma and includes policies, best practices, research literature, links to websites, podcasts, and testimonials.

This tip sheet offers steps to help schools and communities take a proactive approach to addressing child sexual exploitation.

In this video, we’re covering Phishing, which is the process of scammers tricking you into giving them your personal information.

This resource provides guidance on responding to disaster, violence, or terrorism events using the Psychological First Aid intervention. It gives school administrators, educators, and staff practical assistance to meet immediate needs and concerns, reduce distress, and foster adaptive coping in the wake of a disaster.

This online course helps K-12 schools and school districts understand memoranda of understanding (MOUs) and how they can help strengthen school emergency operations plans. 

This report provides official estimates of school crime and safety from a variety of data sources, including national surveys of students, teachers, principals, and post-secondary institutions and presents data on different types of student victimization, measures of school conditions, and student perceptions about their personal safety at school.