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This guidance provides resources for the general public on the most fundamental kinds of recovery, including academic recovery, physical recovery, fiscal recovery, and psychological and emotional recovery.

This fact sheet provides schools with information on recovery and the role it plays in school preparedness. It also contains examples of recovery activities, steps for integrating recovery into emergency planning, and key resources for schools and school districts.

This guidance provides law enforcement and Emergency managers with information on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and discusses the types of information that schools can provide law enforcement agencies. It also provides exceptions to FERPA’s general consent rule that permits the nonconsensual disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records.  

This report provides school communities with a summary of the research on violence prevention and intervention and crisis response in schools. 

The Say Something Anonymous Reporting System allows the public to submit secure and anonymous safety concerns to help identify and intervene upon at-risk individuals prior to an incident.

This report provides four recommendations to parents, administrators, and principals for creating and sustaining a positive and communal school environment.

This report provides the foundation for SchoolSafety.gov. It outlines steps to prevent, protect, mitigate, respond to and recover from school violence.

This report documents the conclusions of a 2016 stakeholder meeting that assembled school officials and administrators who discussed state school safety issues.

This training includes resources for educating all school staff about the prevalence of trauma, its impact on children and youth, and its implications for schools. Materials include an interactive e-resource and companion slide presentation and activity packet.

This training is intended for school administrators and introduces a framework and process for adopting a trauma-sensitive approach schoolwide, including guidance for how to roll-out other training components. Materials include an online module and companion action guide, implementation plans, and a facilitation guide with suggestions for how to use the materials for in-person leader training.