Find School Safety Resources

SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment.

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Guidance

Effective School-Community Partnerships to Support School Mental Health

Third Party, 2021

This downloadable document provides an overview of the key elements of school-community partnerships and specific action steps for states, districts, and communities to foster effective collaboration between schools and community health and behavioral health partners.

Webpage

Build a Safe Environment

Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Justice

This webpage provides strategies and resources for schools to build a safe and supportive school climate that can help prevent bullying.

Report

Advancing Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems: Guidance from the Field

Third Party, 2019

This resource synthesizes the knowledge and guidance of over 75 experts and is a foundational document in the field to help guide local, state, and national efforts to strengthen school mental health efforts and to start to understand and bring consensus to the quality domains of school mental health.

Tool

Straight-A Safety Toolkits

Third Party, 2016

This resource consists of three toolkits aimed to help schools assess, act, and audit school safety efforts. The toolkits include insights and practical guidance, conversation starters, prompts for discussion, activities, and information to aid school safety and security improvements.

Webpage

COVID-19 Resources for Schools, Students, and Families

Department of Education

This webpage provides information on federal resources available to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 among students and staff and maintain safe in-person learning environments.

Training Program

Preparing to Reunify Students With Families and Guardians Before, During, and After a School Emergency

Department of Education

This training course has been developed to help schools plan for family reunification before, during, and after an emergency. It covers how schools and school districts can develop, train, and mobilize reunification teams; how to implement tangible on-site and off-site reunification plans; and considerations to incorporate in a Family Reunification Annex.

Fact Sheet

Psychological First Aid: How to Help Students Recover After a Personal, Community, or School-Based Emergency

Department of Education

This fact sheet explores the goals of Psychological First Aid (PFA) models; outlines when and how schools can implement PFA, including considerations to keep in mind when implementing; and describes the type of training school staff need to use this strategy effectively.

Webpage

School Climate Measurement

Department of Education

This webpage provides information and resources on school climate measurement to support schools in capturing data that can help identify school needs, set goals, and track progress toward school climate improvement.

Guidance

How to Talk to Youth about Human Trafficking: A Guide for Youth Caretakers and Individuals Working with Youth

Department of Homeland Security, 2022

This guide can be used by any adult who is a caretaker of a youth or individuals who work with youth through formal or informal programming. It includes information about what human trafficking is, how to recognize it among youth, tips for talking to youth about general exploitation, information about building life skills that may help prevent youth from being trafficked, and reporting options if you suspect a youth is affected by human trafficking or being exploited.

Report

Study of State Policies to Prohibit Aiding and Abetting Sexual Misconduct in Schools

Department of Education, 2022

This report shares findings from a study that examined states’ development and implementation of laws and policies to prohibit aiding and abetting educator sexual misconduct in schools. It describes the challenges states have encountered in implementing the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Section 8546 and how they have addressed these challenges.