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SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, like guidance, training, and fact sheets, to help schools create and maintain a safe learning environment.
For standards and guidance on submitting a resource to SchoolSafety.gov and to access the resource submission form, please see here.
Looking for grants? Visit the Grants Finder Tool to find applicable funding opportunities to help keep your school community safe.
Department of Homeland Security, and Federal Emergency Management Agency
These grants support grantees develop and sustain capabilities at the state and local, tribal, and territorial levels and in our nation’s highest-risk transit systems, ports, and along our borders to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate terrorism and other high-consequence disasters and emergencies.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
This webpage offers free tools, trainings, informational materials, and additional resources to prevent, protect against, respond to, and mitigate security incidents.
Department of Homeland Security
This guidance helps raise awareness of the capabilities that are available to support risk mitigation. The guide provides an easy to use method to quickly find information on a wide range of free capabilities that can be incorporated into the security practices of organizations of all sizes.
Department of Education
This mobile app, designed specifically for education agencies, allows personnel to walk around buildings and grounds and examine their safety, security, accessibility, and emergency preparedness.
Department of Education
This guidance provides resources for the general public on the most fundamental kinds of recovery, including academic recovery, physical recovery, fiscal recovery, and psychological and emotional recovery.
Department of Education, 2017
This fact sheet provides schools with information on recovery and the role it plays in school preparedness. It also contains examples of recovery activities, steps for integrating recovery into emergency planning, and key resources for schools and school districts.
Department of Justice
This guidance provides law enforcement and Emergency managers with information on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and discusses the types of information that schools can provide law enforcement agencies. It also provides exceptions to FERPA’s general consent rule that permits the nonconsensual disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records.
Department of Justice
This report provides school communities with a summary of the research on violence prevention and intervention and crisis response in schools.
Third Party
The Say Something Anonymous Reporting System allows the public to submit secure and anonymous safety concerns to help identify and intervene upon at-risk individuals prior to an incident.
Department of Justice, February 2018
This report provides four recommendations to parents, administrators, and principals for creating and sustaining a positive and communal school environment.