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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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Showing results for "Targeted Violence", "Physical Security", "School Security Personnel" and "Violence Prevention".
Training Program
Threat Assessment and Reporting
Master Trainer Program

Department of Homeland Security

This program certifies federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners in the instruction of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management best practices and techniques. It is designed to prepare partners to train their local communities and provides organizations with tools to help mitigate threats and prevent acts of terrorism and targeted violence.

Training Program
Targeted Violence
Foundations of Targeted Violence Prevention eLearning

Department of Homeland Security

This online training educates the public on threatening or potentially concerning behaviors and where to report them, providing an opportunity for intervention to prevent targeted violence from occurring.

Report
Targeted Violence
Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2023

Department of Education, and Department of Justice, 2024

This annual report examines the state of school crime and safety. It covers topics such as active shooter incidents, criminal victimization, bullying, safety and security measures, and criminal incidents at postsecondary institutions.

Guidance
Targeted Violence
How State Leaders Can Help Respond to Incidents of School-Based Gun Violence and Support Recovery in School Communities

Department of Education, 2024

This brief shares considerations for organizing a state-level response to support schools and districts in recovery from school-based gun violence. It provides considerations for organizing coordination and response teams, planning and implementing the response, and reviewing the response for areas of improvement and providing ongoing support.

Guidance
Targeted Violence
Implementing Physical Safety Measures Effectively at Schools

Department of Education, 2024

This resource is a compilation of practice profiles highlighting considerations for improving physical safety for schools and classrooms in the context of school-based gun violence. It describes considerations for implementation within a larger multi-tiered system of supports framework and provides specific practice profiles for classroom practices, outdoor and entrance practices, and communication protocols.

Video
Emergency Planning
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.

Webpage
Targeted Violence
Prevention Resource Finder

Department of Homeland Security

This website provides resources and tools to help individuals prepare for and prevent acts of targeted violence and terrorism. Resources include community support; grant funding opportunities; information-sharing platforms; evidence-based research; bullying, depression, domestic violence, and mental health support; gun safety best practices; and training opportunities.

Guidance
Targeted Violence
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. 

Guidance
Targeted Violence
Bomb Threat Guide

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Department of Justice, 2023

This guide provides awareness and guidance in preparing for and reacting to a bomb threat. It assists decision makers with assessment of and response to received bomb threats.
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