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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 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.

This resource offers best practices, implementation strategies, and practical guidance for the design and development of services that meet the needs of children, youth, and their families experiencing a behavioral health crisis.

This white paper is designed to help K-12 leaders understand the purpose and structure of the three most common cybersecurity frameworks being employed by school systems in the United States, understand the similarities and differences among these cybersecurity frameworks, and determine whether the adoption and implementation of a framework might be of benefit to their school community.

This report provides information on cybersecurity incident trends in the U.S. K-12 public education sector based on data from the K-12 Cyber Incident Map. It focuses on publicly-disclosed incidents experienced by school districts and other public education agencies to provide insights into how K-12 cyber risk management practices are exploited and how they may best be remedied.

This fact sheet provides school and school district staff, teachers, and school safety leaders with information and strategies to engage administrators in emergency management planning in order to develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive school emergency operations plans.