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This report examines 12 case studies of incidents in which planned violence targeting K-12 schools was averted by the potential attackers' peers, school administrators, and other school safety stakeholders including school resource officers.

This report reviews the trends in school violence from the most often cited sources of school safety data and discusses how it can be explored further through additional studies on school shootings and a federal effort to improve federal data and its implications for school safety.

This webpage outlines the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network's school mental health activities that aim to accelerate the implementation of effective mental health services in schools.

This fact sheet outlines information and resources to support schools and institutions of higher education (IHEs) in their recovery planning efforts in the immediate aftermath of a community-wide disaster. Specifically, this fact sheet explores how schools and IHEs can use the National Disaster Recovery Framework's whole community approach to better support students and families throughout the recovery continuum while also providing key information to support the overall community recovery after a federally declared natural disaster.

This webpage highlights the importance of hand hygiene and outlines ways school personnel can promote hand hygiene in school to keep staff and children healthy.

This webpage provides information for teachers, school personnel, and staff to identify warning signs a child is being cyberbullied or is cyberbullying, as well as strategies to prevent and address it.

This resource includes a list of low cost or no cost tactics that schools can consider as part of their safety efforts.

This webpage includes resources for schools to promote a safe, healthy learning environment by improving indoor air quality and breathability.

The suite is a set of products designed to inform safety and physical security planning for K-12 schools. It includes the K-12 School Security Guide (3rd ed.), which provides a comprehensive doctrine and systems-based methodology for vulnerability assessment, planning, and implementation of layered physical security elements, and the School Security Assessment Tool, a web-based assessment that walks users through a tailorable vulnerability analysis and provides results and recommendations that can be integrated into a school’s existing safety and security plans.

This article outlines information on the first open-source catalog of U.S. school shootings that researchers used to better understand the causes of school-related gun violence and identify intervention points.