Events

This webinar explores what parents, youth, community members, or professionals working with children can do to help prevent adversity and promote positive experiences so kids can thrive.

This webinar discusses how to identify and build a network of community violence intervention (CVI) partners that can support schools, students and their families to reduce and prevent violence in schools and the community. During the webinar, experts in the field highlight common challenges that can derail school-based CVI partnerships, and best practices to ensure collaborative success and sustainability of school-based CVI strategies.

This webinar explores types of bullying, strategies to disrupt bullying in schools, and focuses specifically on how to leverage school resource officers, bus drivers, and other safety personnel in bullying prevention efforts.

This webinar provides an overview of prevention strategies, focusing on the importance of building a positive school climate, collaboratively developing high-quality Emergency Operation Plans, using threat assessments as a prevention tool, and safe firearms storage. This event is part of a miniseries focused on evidence-based practices to prevent and address gun violence in school communities.

This webinar defines the components of mental health literacy, describes the importance of promoting mental health literacy across diverse youth-serving settings, and identifies outcomes associated with improved mental health literacy. This event is part of a webinar series focused on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive and equitable lens.

In this virtual training event, NTAC researchers discuss important findings from our research on mass attacks perpetrated in public and semi-public spaces, including businesses, restaurants, bars, retail outlets, houses of worship, schools, open spaces, and more. This training will provide guidance on how communities may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model.

This event will convene state and local government leaders virtually to discuss investing in children's mental health and well-being. The convening will feature schools, districts, and states that are successfully providing school-based services and are investing in building schools' capacity to support student mental health. It will also raise the issue of sustainability and discuss resources available to ensure states are positioned to utilize Medicaid funds to sustain these efforts long-term.