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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.

This guidance educates law enforcement agencies and fusion centers about the lawful and appropriate use of open source information, focusing on social media.

This guide provides actionable steps that schools can take to develop comprehensive targeted violence prevention plans and create processes and procedures for conducting threat assessments.

This report provides an overview to parents, teachers, and health practitioners on the role of adverse childhood responses in substance use and related behavioral health problems.