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This fact sheet illustrates ways to improve communication and collaboration between schools and families to support students’ needs.

This fact sheet discusses actions educators and school-based staff can take to support and respond to students’ social, emotional, and behavioral needs in classrooms or other instructional settings. It highlights several key evidence-based practices staff can implement to make immediate, impactful changes and provides supporting tools and resources.

This webpage lists signs that may indicate a young person has an addiction or problem with drugs.

This fact sheet discusses approaches to create effective, evidence-based school discipline policies with a focus on responsive rather than punishment-based discipline practices. The fact sheet includes steps and resources to help school administrators and leaders examine the rationale driving existing discipline policies and to include students and community members in the conversation to develop revised approaches.

This fact sheet lists the ten most frequently asked questions from teenagers during National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week® and provides answers to help parents start a conversation about drugs and health.

This document lists resources, laws and regulations, tools and training, and other information related to addressing access and functional needs in emergency management and planning.

This guide aims to help education professionals reimagine and redefine school safety such that safety is not the absence of a negative but rather the existence of positive elements like interconnection, belonging, voice, and agency. It pulls from different frameworks and concepts, including complex adaptive systems, restorative justice, co-designing, and design thinking, to provide educators, school leaders, and district administrators with mindsets, strategies, and grounded examples of what is possible by reimagining school safety.

This toolkit provides information to address the needs of children and youth with special health care needs in emergency preparedness, response, recovery, mitigation, and community resilience activities.

This webpage provides resources and information for teachers to help students make healthier lifestyle choices.

This fact sheet offers information for core planning team members and safety leaders at K-12 schools and school districts on elements to include in the Recovery Annex that address and prepare for the loss of a member of the school community.