Find School Safety Resources

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. 

This webpage outlines resources on addressing crises that occur in school communities and how to move forward in the aftermath of these crises.

This guidance provides school and district safety teams with proven methods for planning, practicing and achieving a successful reunification in the event of a school crisis or emergency.

This webpage provides resources to help schools create a Family Reunification Annex as a part of a school emergency operations plan in order to detail actions to take before, during, and after an emergency to ensure students are reunited with their families. 

This program offers 24/7 call, text and chat access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing suicidal, substance use, and/or mental health crisis, or any other kind of emotional distress. The corresponding webpage provides additional resources and information for strengthening suicide prevention and mental health crisis services.

This report provides recommendations and resources to help K-12 schools and school districts address systemic cybersecurity risk. It also provides insight into the current threat landscape specific to the K-12 community and offers simple steps school leaders can take to strengthen their cybersecurity efforts.

This guide provides focused information and resources to enhance the promotion of mental health and social and emotional well-being among students. It highlights seven key challenges to providing school- or program-based mental health support across early childhood, K–12 schools, and higher education settings, and presents seven corresponding recommendations.

This training provides information and strategies for keeping hands and surfaces clean in educational settings. It provides guidance and resources for creating and following a hand hygiene and cleaning plan, as well as messaging and resources to share with caregivers to equip them in keeping home environments clean and teaching children hand hygiene early.

This toolkit is designed to help education leaders and schools raise parent awareness about school connectedness and its role in supporting student mental health and emotional well-being, and why family engagement both in and out of school is important. It includes background information, sample social media posts, social media graphics, and newsletter text.