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This training module presentation is a research-based resource that can help you lead bullying prevention efforts in your local community.

These updated guidelines provide best practices specifically for securing K-12 school facilities, including elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools. The PASS School Security Checklist also allows users to assess the current state of safety and security efforts in their school or district compared to nationwide best practices.

The District Guide serves as a complement to the Guide for Developing High-Quality School Emergency Operations Plans (School Guide) and provides information that can assist school districts in fulfilling both their individual and shared emergency planning responsibilities.

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.

This webpage offers free tools, trainings, informational materials, and additional resources to prevent, protect against, respond to, and mitigate security incidents.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.