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This fact sheet presents strategies and tips for initiating and managing core and ad-hoc collaborative emergency planning teams, as well as strengthening partnerships for effective emergency operations plan development.

This fact sheet provides an overview of cyberbullying, including signs to look for, potential effects, and tips for talking to children about their online engagement.

This infographic highlights social media threats affecting school districts in the United States, provides mitigation and response measures for social media threats directed at school districts, and connects school safety stakeholders to a suite of tools and resources available to promote a culture of readiness and preparedness.

This podcast series features individuals working towards safe supportive learning environments within their communities. Guests include state and local education agencies and their partners who are using U.S. Department of Education funding to advance school-based mental health services, support mental health service professionals, and establish trauma recovery and prevention programs.

This resource provides guidance on how to maintain safe, inclusive, supportive, and fair learning environments for students and school staff and includes specific recommendations for evidence-based practices to give students what they need to learn and grow. It identifies five guiding principles, suggests actions schools and school districts can take to create inclusive, safe, supportive, and fair learning environments, and lists federal resources to support these efforts.

This fact sheet shares five learnings from National Institute of Justice-sponsored research about mass shootings in K-12 schools.

This webpage shares information on how parents and families can partner with schools to help create a healthy and supportive environment for children and adolescents at home and at school. It includes a list of five things parents and guardians can know and do to support their child’s health and emotional well-being.

This fact sheet provides information, best practices, and resources to assist schools, school districts, and institutions of higher education in creating after-action reports to strengthen their emergency management planning efforts and the effectiveness of their emergency operations plans.

This webpage provides tools, data, and resources to help schools meet students' social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs; understand and comply with Federal laws, including laws that prohibit discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, sex, and disability; and find information and resources for promoting welcoming and safe schools.

This webpage provides information on what multifactor authentication (MFA) is, how to enable MFA, and why MFA is an important action to take to protect against malicious cyber actors.