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Mental Health
School and Campus Health

Department of Health and Human Services

This webpage provides information and resources to assist efforts to promote mental health and substance use prevention in schools and on campuses and to provide safe learning environments.

Fact Sheet
Emergency Planning
Recovery Planning for Schools and Institutions of Higher Education in the Immediate Aftermath of a Significant or Federally Declared Natural Disaster

Department of Education, 2021

This fact sheet outlines information and resources to support schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) in their recovery planning efforts in the immediate aftermath of a community-wide disaster. Specifically, this fact sheet explores how schools and IHEs can use the National Disaster Recovery Framework's whole community approach to better support students and families throughout the recovery continuum while also providing key information to support the overall community recovery after a federally declared natural disaster.

Training Program
Emergency Planning
Civilian Response and Casualty Care

This one day course offered by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services provides strategies, guidance, and a proven plan for surviving an active shooter event. Topics include the history and prevalence of active shooter events, civilian response options and basic medical intervention to reduce preventable causes of death.

Training Program
Targeted Violence
School Security Officer Initial Certification Training

This two day class offered by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) includes a presentation of the five DCJS school security officer modules followed by the required DCJS testing. This training is intended for school security officers, currently employed by a Virginia Public School Division or by a private school within the Commonwealth, who are in need of initial certification.

Training Program
Threat Assessment and Reporting
K-12 Behavioral Threat Assessment Training

This one day, basic threat assessment training offered by the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety provides K-12 threat assessment teams with tools and resources to conduct and manage threat cases as required by Virginia code. It is designed to help schools continue to comply with VA Code § 22.1-79.4 (creation of threat assessment teams) and § 9.1-184 (collection and reporting of data by threat assessment teams).

Training Program
Targeted Violence
School Resource Officer and School Administrator Basic Course

This four and a half day course offered by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services focuses on working with youth, school safety, school law, and in particular, the functions of school resource officers and school administrators in a PreK-12 school environment. This course is required for all law enforcement officers assigned as SROs to a Virginia public school.

Guidance
Mental Health
Suicide Prevention Guidelines for Virginia Public Schools

2020

These guidelines provide information to assist local school boards in revising policies to help prevent suicide and procedures to intervene when suicidal threats are present, and how to manage the crisis response when a death by suicide occurs in the school community.

Program
Emergency Planning
Virginia School Safety Audit Program

This webpage provides an overview of the Virginia School Safety Audit Program and its five safety audit components. All Virginia public schools are required to conduct an annual school safety audit in order to assess school safety conditions.

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Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Hand Hygiene at School

Department of Health and Human Services

This webpage highlights the importance of hand hygiene and outlines ways school personnel can promote hand hygiene in school to keep staff and children healthy.

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Bullying and Cyberbullying
Tips for Teachers on Cyberbullying

Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Justice

This webpage provides information for teachers, school personnel, and staff to identify warning signs a child is being cyberbullied or is cyberbullying, as well as strategies to prevent and address it.

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