Planning to Recover from Emergencies at Districts and Schools
Department of Education
This webinar explains how K-12 schools and districts can better plan to recover from emergency events and be ready for a range of threats and hazards.
SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment.
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Department of Education
This webinar explains how K-12 schools and districts can better plan to recover from emergency events and be ready for a range of threats and hazards.
Department of Education
This webinar provides an overview of trauma and retraumatization, discussed manifestations of trauma in students, explored a trauma-informed approach, and reviewed considerations for preparedness planning and how schools can address trauma in their emergency operations plans.
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.
Department of Health and Human Services, November 2021
This toolkit includes materials that school administrators can use to help promote regular COVID-19 testing programs and encourage participation among parents, students, and school staff.
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.
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.
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.
Department of Health and Human Services, November 2021
This guidance provides recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines for children and teens.
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.
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.