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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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Video
Targeted Violence
Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma

Department of Justice

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.

Guidance
Emergency Planning
Schools/Education Community

Department of Justice

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

Tool
Emergency Planning
Mass Violence Toolkit

Department of Justice, August 2015

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.

Fact Sheet
Emergency Planning
REMS TA Center Fact Sheets: Response for Schools and School Districts

Department of Education, 2017

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.

Guidance
Emergency Planning
Active Shooter Resources

Department of Justice

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.

Report
Targeted Violence
A Study of the Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters in the U.S.

Department of Justice, June 2018

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.

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