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This tip sheet provides guidance on teaching Psychological First Aid (PFA), an evidence-informed intervention model to assist students, staff, and families in the immediate aftermath of a disaster or emergency event.

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

This program offers 24/7 call, text and chat access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing suicidal, substance use, and/or mental health crisis, or any other kind of emotional distress. The corresponding webpage provides additional resources and information for strengthening suicide prevention and mental health crisis services.

This guide provides important considerations for collecting school safety data as well as information on how to interpret data, how to create data visualizations, and how to effectively use these graphics as part of school safety initiatives.

A guide for parents and families in preparing for their students return to school for the 2021-2022 academic year. 

This report, covering active shooter incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013, examines specific behaviors that may precede an attack and that might be useful in identifying, assessing, and managing those who may be on a pathway to violence.

This training course is designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, tele-communicator and emergency medical services (EMS) in active attack / shooter events. The course provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care, along with a model framework for law enforcement, fire, and EMS to integrate responses during an active attack / shooter event through the rescue task force concept.

This guide offers suggestions about how a bystander should react in an active shooter situation.

These self-conducted tabletop exercises, tailored for the academic community, include a set of scalable tools aimed to test existing emergency plans, protocols, and procedures, while also strengthening preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities in the event of an active shooter situation.

This webinar highlights important considerations for inclusive planning for an active shooter event. It also covers actions a disability service provider can take to plan for this type of event, what to do in an active shooter situation, how to drill and assess vulnerabilities, and the role of law enforcement.