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This guide provides an overview of threat assessment and management teams and includes toolkits and educational materials on best practices and models.

This briefing paper describes how peer-to-peer engagements can help communities build resilience against violence and terrorism and provide critical protective factors for youth.

This guide provides parents and educators with tips to help mitigate social isolation in youth and prevent students from radicalizing to violence.

This journal article covers the use of and principles related to Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, or CPTED, to help reduce the number of triggering events that contribute to school violence.

This webpage contains information, data, and resources to support youth violence prevention efforts.

This self-assessment tool was created to assist school and district staff in addressing the health and academic needs of LGBTQ students, and to understand current policies, programs, and practices that may contribute to safe, inclusive environments where all youth can be successful.

This course was designed to help participants understand earthquakes and how K-12 schools and school districts can prepare for this natural hazard.

This course was designed to help K-12 schools and districts understand what site assessments are and how they can be used to inform school emergency operations plans and safety, security, emergency management, and preparedness programs.

This checklist summarizes key elements that will help district level core planning teams, with their school-specific teams and community partners, develop or enhance a school emergency operations plan (EOP). It can assist school districts as they support schools in developing a new EOP or refreshing an existing plan. 

This checklist summarizes key elements that will help school personnel (administrators, educators, and staff), with their community partners, develop a school emergency operations plan (EOP). It can assist schools in developing a new EOP or refreshing their existing plan.