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SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment.

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Video

Six Key Domains for Comprehensive School Safety

Third Party, 2024

This video explores six key domains of comprehensive school safety and insights on how school safety leaders can approach prevention, protection, and intervention in digital and physical spaces.

Report

Bullying in Children: Impact on Child Health

Department of Health and Human Services, 2021

This article describes bullying in childhood as a global public health problem that impacts child, adolescent, and adult health. It outlines the context in which bullying occurs, the types of bullying, consequences of bullying, and the gaps in evidenced-based prevention strategies.

Guidance

Mitigating Harm from Violent Visual Content

Department of Homeland Security, 2024

This resource provides guidance to help communities, families, and individuals understand and cope with violent images, videos, and other disturbing content after an act of targeted violence or terrorism.

Report

Association of Increased Safe Household Firearm Storage With Firearm Suicide and Unintentional Death Among U.S. Youths

Third Party, 2019

This article shares findings and results from a simulated U.S. national sample of firearm-owning households to test a hypothetical intervention, safe storage of firearms in the home, on youth accidental death and suicide.

Podcast

Understanding Firearm-Related Injury and School Violence Series

Department of Justice, 2024

This podcast interview series provides information on the intersection of school safety strategies and firearm-related injury. Episodes cover topics such as youth suicide prevention, anonymous reporting systems, and community engagement.

Guidance

Delivering Services in School-Based Settings: A Comprehensive Guide to Medicaid Services and Administrative Claiming

Department of Health and Human Services, 2023

This guide provides direction to State Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) agencies and Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) to deliver school-based services in a manner that allows LEAs to obtain all the payments for which they can qualify, to then increase access to covered services for enrolled students. This guide also offers possible financially sustainable solutions for State Medicaid/CHIP agencies and LEAs, while acknowledging that behavioral health services, and other medical conditions can be complex and may also require community-based resources outside of schools for effective treatment.

Fact Sheet

Talking with Your Teen About Vaping

Department of Health and Human Services, 2020

This brochure details the risks associated with vaping and the importance of having conversations with children and adolescents to help them avoid substance use.

Guidance

Reducing Vaping Among Youth and Young Adults

Department of Health and Human Services, 2020

This guide discusses effective programs and policies to prevent vaping among youth and young adults, challenges to reducing e-cigarette use and vaping, and program and policy implementation strategies that can be used to address these challenges.

Program

Medicaid and School-Based Services Technical Assistance Center

Department of Health and Human Services

This technical assistance center seeks to assist and expand the capacity of State Medicaid agencies, local education agencies (LEAs), and school-based entities to provide greater assistance under Medicaid. It also seeks to develop resource materials tailored to the specific needs of LEAs and their communities.

Guidance

Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools: An Action Guide for School and District Leaders

Department of Health and Human Services, 2023

This guide describes six in-school strategies to promote and support mental health and well-being. It includes aligned approaches, or specific ways to put each strategy into action, as well as examples of evidence-based policies, programs, and practices.