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 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 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.

This resource is a compilation of practice profiles highlighting considerations for improving physical safety for schools and classrooms in the context of school-based gun violence. It describes considerations for implementation within a larger multi-tiered system of supports framework and provides specific practice profiles for classroom practices, outdoor and entrance practices, and communication protocols.

This webpage provides resources for families and educators on bullying prevention. It includes resources to help schools and communities prevent bullying and cyberbullying; identify and address bullying behaviors; respond to bullying and youth suicide; and create safe and supportive schools that are free from bullying, discrimination, harassment, aggression, violence, and abuse.

This resource provides guidance to help communities, families, and individuals understand and cope with violent images, videos, and other disturbing content after an act of targeted violence or terrorism.