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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
Targeted Violence
Bomb Threat Guide

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Department of Justice, 2023

This guide provides awareness and guidance in preparing for and reacting to a bomb threat. It assists decision makers with assessment of and response to received bomb threats.
Video
Targeted Violence
What to Do: Suspicious or Unattended Item

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2022

This video demonstrates how individuals can determine whether an item is suspicious or unattended to help individuals and communities prepare and react appropriately.
Guidance
Targeted Violence
Mass Bomb Threats Postcard

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023

This postcard provides awareness on mass bomb threat campaigns, illustrating their impacts and indicators along with a focus on evaluating risk levels and threat response options.
Training Program
Cybersecurity
Data Breach Scenario Trainings

Department of Education, 2020

This series of packaged trainings is designed to help educational organizations conduct internal staff development on data breaches. It includes ready-to-use resources and materials for several different scenarios.
Guidance
Cybersecurity
A Parent's Guide for Understanding K-12 School Data Breaches

Department of Education, 2021

This publication provides information to help parents of K-12 students understand what it means when a school has a data breach. It also provides tools and best practices to help parents and guardians navigate the process of protecting children’s data in the event of a breach.
Guidance
Threat Assessment and Reporting
School Threat Assessment Toolkit

Department of Justice, 2024

This toolkit is designed to aid schools in employing behavioral threat assessment and management as part of a comprehensive violence prevention strategy. The toolkit offers guidance on training, implementation, and assessment of school threat assessment teams. It aims to ensure fidelity to student rights while providing practical tools like documents, forms, videos, and additional resources to support schools’ efforts.
Fact Sheet
School Climate
Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Well-Being and Success: Strategies for Student and Teacher Support Teams

Department of Education, 2023

This fact sheet highlights the important role student support teams (SSTs) can play in developing and enacting effective supports for students and ensuring that teachers also have the skills and support needed. It describes key elements for creating high-quality SSTs, identifying students who need additional support, and implementing Tier 2 (Targeted) and Tier 3 (Intensive) practices and procedures.
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