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

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 briefing paper describes how peer-to-peer engagements can help communities build resilience against violence and terrorism and provide critical protective factors for youth.

This guide provides parents and educators with tips to help mitigate social isolation in youth and prevent students from radicalizing to violence.

This journal article covers the use of and principles related to Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, or CPTED, to help reduce the number of triggering events that contribute to school violence.

The following study examines 67 disrupted plots against K-12 schools and highlights the importance of proactive reporting and intervention. 

This document provides suggestions for mitigating risks for COVID-19 transmission in schools in low-resource, international settings and describes considerations associated with each mitigation measure, including considerations for secondary impacts such as food insecurity and exposure to violence and for students who are at high-risk for dropping out of school, so that schools may safely resume and sustain operations.

On October 19, 2018, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) summit brought together architects, policymakers, students, educators, school administrators, law enforcement and building code officials, mental health experts, and others to examine violence in schools and explore ways to holistically improve safety and security in our school communities.

This report identifies 41 incidents of attacks against K-12 schools in the United States from 2008 to 2017. Researchers with the USSS National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) examined the background and behaviors of the attackers and identified a series of 10 key findings and significant commonalities.