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This brief shares considerations for organizing a state-level response to support schools and districts in recovery from school-based gun violence. It provides considerations for organizing coordination and response teams, planning and implementing the response, and reviewing the response for areas of improvement and providing ongoing support.

This resource is a compilation of practice profiles highlighting considerations for improving physical safety for schools and classrooms in the context of school-based gun violence. It describes considerations for implementation within a larger multi-tiered system of supports framework and provides specific practice profiles for classroom practices, outdoor and entrance practices, and communication protocols.

This video shares information and strategies to sustain trauma-informed practices in schools. It highlights key approaches such as developing administrative buy-in, engaging stakeholders, and utilizing a whole-school approach to meet the needs of children, including those impacted by trauma.

This literature review summarizes research related to the scope of bullying in the United States; different types of bullying; predictors, risk factors, protective factors, and consequences of bullying; and interventions focused on prevention and/or reduction.

This webpage provides resources for families and educators on bullying prevention. It includes resources to help schools and communities prevent bullying and cyberbullying; identify and address bullying behaviors; respond to bullying and youth suicide; and create safe and supportive schools that are free from bullying, discrimination, harassment, aggression, violence, and abuse.

This webpage provides information and resources on how educators, parents and guardians, health care professionals, and communities can help youth reject or quit vaping and other tobacco products.

This guidance outlines how states and communities can use funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to support mental health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and other gender diverse youth (LGBTQI+) with examples from Bipartisan Safer Communities Act grantees.

This resource directory is designed to help districts and schools promote well-being among administrators, teachers, and other staff.

This initiative provides resources to support educators in fostering safe, inclusive, supportive and fair school climates and preventing and addressing identity-based discrimination, bullying, harassment, and violence.

This tip sheet offers strategies K-12 educators can use to help prevent vulnerable students from being trafficked or exploited.