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This guidance provides training for victim service providers, mental health professionals, and law enforcement officers on best practices for supporting youth who have experienced events that lead to trauma or grief.

This guidance provides victim-serving organizations with a training session that addresses how to create and maintain partnerships, address resources gaps, develop victim assistance protocols, and use the protocols after incidents of mass violence or terrorism.

This guidance provides information specifically for students and other victims of violent crimes.

This toolkit helps victims of mass violence and terrorism by providing checklists, templates and other resources from partner agencies, subject matter experts, and lessons learned from past incidents to give communities a holistic approach to victim assistance from planning through long-term recovery.

This fact sheet provides schools with information on response 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 victims with resources and information on the responsibilities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during active shooter incidents and mass killings. Resources also include information on support services for victims, family members, first responders and investigative teams who have been affected by active shooter or mass killing incidents.

This report provides public and behavioral health professionals and first responders with information on how mass violence affects the behavioral health of adult survivors, young survivors, and witnesses of mass violence incidences.

This guidance provides schools and houses of worship with an online course for best practices and resources in developing emergency plans for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from mass casualty situations.

This report, covering active shooter incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013, examines specific behaviors that may precede an attack and that might be useful in identifying, assessing, and managing those who may be on a pathway to violence.

This guide offers suggestions about how a bystander should react in an active shooter situation.