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Assessment

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) School Assessment

Department of Health and Human Services, May 2017

This tool assesses the use of CPTED principles in three areas of schools: grounds, buildings, and interiors. It includes the principles of natural surveillance, access management, territoriality, physical maintenance, and order maintenance.

Report

National Summits on Preventing Multiple Casualty Violence Reports

Department of Homeland Security

These reports summarize the outcomes of summits that bring together experts from a variety of disciplines, including law enforcement, academic education, social sciences, private security, and emergency management to develop cross-cutting prevention strategies and a framework for a prevention toolkit adaptable to individual communities.

Training Program

REMS TA Center School Behavioral Threat Assessments: An Introduction

Department of Education

This training provides a one-day program designed to familiarize schools and school districts with school behavioral threat assessments in preventing and reducing targeted violence at K–12 schools.

Guidance

The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective

Department of Justice

This guidance references a conference of educational, law enforcement, and mental health experts following the 1999 attack at Columbine High School. This guidance aims to assist in the prevention of school shootings.

Report

Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates

Department of Education, and Department of Homeland Security

This report provides a process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence in schools.

Guidance

If You See Something, Say Something Campaign

Department of Homeland Security

This guidance informs schools of the indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, as well as the importance of reporting suspicious activity to state and local law enforcement.

Guidance

Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative

Department of Justice

This guidance provides law enforcement with another tool to help prevent terrorism and other related criminal activity by establishing a national capacity for gathering, documenting, processing, analyzing, and sharing suspicious activity reporting information.

Guidance

Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing the Threat of Targeted Attacks

Department of Justice, 2017

This guidance references a 2015 panel consisting of domestic and international experts in targeted violence to educate schools, businesses, and houses of worship on strategic threat management plans.

Guidance

Real-Time and Open Source Analysis (ROSA) Resource Guide

Department of Justice

This guidance educates law enforcement agencies and fusion centers about the lawful and appropriate use of open source information, focusing on social media.

Guidance

Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model

Department of Homeland Security, July 2018

This guide provides actionable steps that schools can take to develop comprehensive targeted violence prevention plans and create processes and procedures for conducting threat assessments.