Find School Safety Resources

This webpage provides various tools developed by the Center for Disease Control to help the general public understand and effectively prevent school violence.

This resource presents a group of strategies to help communities and states sharpen their focus on youth violence prevention. 

This report provides findings from a review of violent incidents that happened between 1900 and 2008 to help campus safety professionals with identifying, assessing and managing the risk of violence at institutes of higher education.

This training session educates mental health professionals on increasing effectiveness of providers for child victims of violence.

This report summarizes the main points of a research forum on preventing school violence for administrators, principals, and police officers.

This guidance provides prevention and intervention information for communities, families, law enforcement and the justice system on how these groups can work together effectively to prevent and respond to school violence.

This guide provides actionable steps that schools can take to develop comprehensive targeted violence prevention plans and create processes and procedures for conducting threat assessments.

These products provide information and guidance on recognizing, assessing, de-escalating, and reporting behaviors that raise concern. They include details on activities and behaviors that may be concerning or indicative of impending violence.

This resource helps K-12 schools and law enforcement and community partners create tailored approaches to address anonymous threats of violence, including those received on social media. The guidance includes a toolkit and accompanying reference guide that outline steps school leaders can take to assess and respond to anonymous threats, better prepare for and prevent future threats, and work in coordination with law enforcement and other local partners when these threats arise.

This program certifies federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners in the instruction of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management best practices and techniques. It is designed to prepare partners to train their local communities and provides organizations with tools to help mitigate threats and prevent acts of terrorism and targeted violence.