Find School Safety Resources

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 includes a PDF with general security best practices and considerations and a Microsoft Excel-based 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 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.

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

This guide provides actionable steps that schools can take to develop comprehensive targeted violence prevention plans and create processes and procedures for conducting threat assessments.

This report discusses the findings of a National Institute for Justice-funded survey on the firearms experience of average youth for the high school community.

This guidance provides a collaborative space for law enforcement, school personnel and mental health professionals to share data and information on “close calls” to improve school safety and prevent tragedies.