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This guide provides preventive and protective measures to address the threat of gun violence in schools. It includes a PDF with general security best practices and considerations and a Microsoft Excel-based security survey.

This program delivers current, dynamic classroom and web-based trainings to law enforcement officers focused on recognizing indicators of dangerous situations.

This program offers tips to the general public on handling felony possession and use of firearm cases.

This training provides a one-day program designed to familiarize schools and school districts with school behavioral threat assessments in preventing and reducing targeted violence at K–12 schools.

This guidance references a conference of educational, law enforcement, and mental health experts following the 1999 attack at Columbine High School. This guidance aims to assist in the prevention of school shootings.

This report provides a process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence in schools.

This report provides findings from a review of violent incidents that happened between 1900 and 2008 to help campus safety professionals with identifying, assessing and managing the risk of violence at institutes of higher education.

This guidance informs schools of the indicators of terrorism and terrorism-related crime, as well as the importance of reporting suspicious activity to state and local law enforcement.

This guidance provides law enforcement with another tool to help prevent terrorism and other related criminal activity by establishing a national capacity for gathering, documenting, processing, analyzing, and sharing suspicious activity reporting information.

This guidance references a 2015 panel consisting of domestic and international experts in targeted violence to educate schools, businesses, and houses of worship on strategic threat management plans.