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The federal government identified additional resources that highlight strategies for school safety. Use these resources to learn more about targeted violence.
Designing for Safety, Designing for Learning
Third Party, January 2019
This journal article covers the use of and principles related to Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, or CPTED, to help reduce the number of triggering events that contribute to school violence.
Assessing Your School Site
Department of Education
This course was designed to help K-12 schools and districts understand what site assessments are and how they can be used to inform school emergency operations plans and safety, security, emergency management, and preparedness programs.
Preventing School Shootings: The Effectiveness of Safety Measures
Third Party, 2017
This essay seeks examine the empirical evidence surrounding common security measures enacted in response to well publicized school shootings and calling for the use of an evidence based approach to school safety.