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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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Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Schools and Childcare Programs

Department of Health and Human Services, February 2022

This webpage provides strategies and resources to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain safe operations in schools, child care programs, and institutions of higher education.

Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
2022: Staying In School In-Person

Department of Education, January 2022

This guidance outlines four important COVID-19 mitigation strategies for schools to keep students and staff safe, healthy, and ready for in-person learning.

Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Safe Schools Checklist

Department of Health and Human Services, December 2021

This guidance provides ideas on how to get school communities vaccinated and maintain safe, in-person learning all year long.

Guidance
Mental Health
Protecting Youth Mental Health

Department of Health and Human Services, December 2021

The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory offers recommendations for supporting the mental health of children, adolescents, and young adults. The Advisory includes essential recommendations for the institutions that surround young people and shape their day-to-day lives—schools, community organizations, health care systems, technology companies, media, funders and foundations, employers, and government.

Guidance
Infectious Diseases and Public Health
Toolkit for Responding to COVID-19 Cases

Department of Health and Human Services, September 2021

As K-12 schools resume in-person learning, school administrators must be prepared to respond quickly when someone with COVID-19 has been in the school or at a school event. In these instances, case investigation and contact tracing serve as important strategies for reducing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Report
Threat Assessment and Reporting
Mass Attacks in Public Spaces

Department of Homeland Security, August 2020

This report, the third in a yearly series, provides an analysis of mass attacks that occurred in public spaces in the United States between January and December 2019. 

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