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This report includes practical advice gathered from experienced school resource officers (SROs) on how law enforcement, schools and school districts can work together to keep schools safe.

This report is designed to educate school personnel about at-risk behaviors and activities that assist students with reducing social/psychological commitment to violence as a method of resolving a grievance.

These reports summarize the outcomes of summits that bring together experts from a variety of disciplines, including law enforcement, academic education, social sciences, private security, and emergency management to develop cross-cutting prevention strategies and a framework for a prevention toolkit adaptable to individual communities.

This guidance provides tips to educators on creating school-wide violence prevention programs.

This guidance provides schools with tips on preparing for incidents of violence.

This guidance references the research on targeted school violence for school communities.

This guide provides preventive and protective measures to address the threat of gun violence in schools. It is a PDF with general security best practices and consideration and is designed to be used in conjunction with the K-12 School Security Survey. 

This training provides a one-day program designed to familiarize schools and school districts with school behavioral threat assessments in preventing and reducing targeted violence at K–12 schools.

This report provides a process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence in schools.

This guidance references a 2015 panel consisting of domestic and international experts in targeted violence to educate schools, businesses, and houses of worship on strategic threat management plans.