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This webpage outlines the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network's school mental health activities that aim to accelerate the implementation of effective mental health services in schools.

This webpage provides information and resources to assist efforts to promote mental health and substance use prevention in schools and on campuses and to provide safe learning environments.

This fact sheet outlines information and resources to support schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) in their recovery planning efforts in the immediate aftermath of a community-wide disaster. Specifically, this fact sheet explores how schools and IHEs can use the National Disaster Recovery Framework's whole community approach to better support students and families throughout the recovery continuum while also providing key information to support the overall community recovery after a federally declared natural disaster.

This webpage highlights the importance of hand hygiene and outlines ways school personnel can promote hand hygiene in school to keep staff and children healthy.

This webpage provides information for teachers, school personnel, and staff to identify warning signs a child is being cyberbullied or is cyberbullying, as well as strategies to prevent and address it.

This resource includes a list of low cost or no cost tactics that schools can consider as part of their safety efforts.

This webpage includes resources for schools to promote a safe, healthy learning environment by improving indoor air quality and breathability.

The suite is a set of products designed to inform safety and physical security planning for K-12 schools. It includes the K-12 School Security Guide (3rd ed.), which provides a comprehensive doctrine and systems-based methodology for vulnerability assessment, planning, and implementation of layered physical security elements, and the School Security Assessment Tool, a web-based assessment that walks users through a tailorable vulnerability analysis and provides results and recommendations that can be integrated into a school’s existing safety and security plans.

This article outlines information on the first open-source catalog of U.S. school shootings that researchers used to better understand the causes of school-related gun violence and identify intervention points.

This training course is designed to help K-12 schools and districts understand cybersecurity considerations needed to inform school emergency operations plans (EOPs) and safety, security, emergency management, and preparedness programs. It covers the types of evolving cyber threats facing school and school district networks and systems; the before, during, and after aspects of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from cyber threats; and how cybersecurity can be integrated into new and existing EOPs.