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This tip sheet provides guidance on teaching Psychological First Aid (PFA), an evidence-informed intervention model to assist students, staff, and families in the immediate aftermath of a disaster or emergency event.

This document provides guidance on factors schools must take into account when conducting armed assailant drills and reflects unique considerations within the school environment, including protecting both the physical and psychological safety of students and staff.

This webinar explains how K-12 schools and districts can better plan to recover from emergency events and be ready for a range of threats and hazards.

This webinar provides an overview of trauma and retraumatization, discussed manifestations of trauma in students, explored a trauma-informed approach, and reviewed considerations for preparedness planning and how schools can address trauma in their emergency operations plans.

This webpage provides strategies and resources to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain safe operations in schools, child care programs, and institutions of higher education.

This toolkit includes materials that school administrators can use to help promote regular COVID-19 testing programs and encourage participation among parents, students, and school staff.

This guidance outlines four important COVID-19 mitigation strategies for schools to keep students and staff safe, healthy, and ready for in-person learning.

This guidance provides ideas on how to get school communities vaccinated and maintain safe, in-person learning all year long.

The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory offers recommendations for supporting the mental health of children, adolescents, and young adults. The Advisory includes essential recommendations for the institutions that surround young people and shape their day-to-day lives—schools, community organizations, health care systems, technology companies, media, funders and foundations, employers, and government.

This guidance provides recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines for children and teens.