School Personnel
Resources for administrators, principals, superintendents, teachers, and other school staff.
Crisis Navigation in Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Schools Learning Community
This four-session learning community will assist schools in creating and strengthening a site crisis navigation team.
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Supporting Youth Mental Health
This webinar will feature panelists from Sandy Hook Promise sharing ideas for how educators might discuss mental health with students. Tips and additional resources will also be provided, and participants will be encouraged to share their own success stories.
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A Quick Guide to School Safety Data Visualization
This guide brings together resources that explain how to collect and interpret school safety data, as well as translate it into effective data visualizations.
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Social Emotional Learning at a Glance
This brief at-a-glance synopsis of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) provides an overview of what SEL is and is not, and it's benefits to school climate and safety initiatives.
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Metropolitan District Tests Various School-Based Mental Health Services
An NIJ-funded assessment of the relative benefits of broader mental health services yields mixed results, underscoring implementation challenges.
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Synthesizing Knowledge On Equity And Equity-Based School Safety Strategies
This publication from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provides an overview of the literature on school safety in the United States, with a focus on equity.
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School and Law Enforcement Partnerships
This self-paced training is designed to help schools and law enforcement agencies discuss what form they want their partnerships to take, and to consider important issues related to these partnerships.
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Collaboration & Information Sharing
Originally the third in a four-part series on Improving School Climate & Safety Through Inter-Professional Collaboration, this session focuses on school-based prevention programming and how different examples align with school climate.
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School-Based Prevention Programming
Originally the third in a four-part series on Improving School Climate & Safety Through Inter-Professional Collaboration, this session focuses on school-based prevention programming and how different examples align with school climate.
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Examples of Anonymous Reporting Systems
Originally the second in a four-part series on Improving School Climate & Safety Through Inter-Professional Collaboration, this session considers Anonymous Reporting Systems (ARS) and their impact on school climate.
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School Climate & Safety in the Distance Learning Environment
Originally the first in a four-part series, this webinar looks at school climate and safety, specifically as they relate to the distance learning environment.
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Preparing for Changes in Personnel
This guide provides readers with an overview of considerations to address changes in project personnel. Explore sample checklists for offboarding, cross-training, and onboarding, as well as a tangible steps for developing a succession plan.
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Considerations for Social Media Monitoring and Response
This guide highlights example practices, concerns, and methods for social media monitoring in a school setting. At the end of the document is an example of the logistical considerations one school district dealt with as they implemented a social media monitoring system.
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Systematic Review: Perceptions of School Resource Officers
This systematic review evaluates various perspectives on School Resource Officers (SROs) in the school community, as well as how these perceptions may affect long-term student outcomes and policy decisions.
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A Quick Guide to Information Sharing During Threat Reporting & Assessment
This guide brings together resources that explain when to release or withhold student information collected through reporting systems and threat assessment processes.
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Systematic Review: Anonymous Reporting Systems for School-Based Violence Prevention
Dr. Libby Messman describes a systematic review of published literature from the last 25 years on the use of Anonymous Reporting Systems (ARS) in schools of all levels (K-12, colleges, public, private, etc.) throughout the United States.
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NIJ Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Publications
The NIJ CSSI Publications is a list of published results of funded, research-focused CSSI projects that that can be applied to school safety nationwide.
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First Steps for Engaging Your School Safety Network
Learn how to identify and strategize engaging with everyone in your school safety network through this self-paced training.
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The Science of School Safety
In this podcast episode, Mary Poulin Carlton joins host Paul Haskins to discuss bullying, school climate, mental health, and other important issues impacting school safety.
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Lockdown Drills Panel
In this webinar, panelists answer questions and share best practices for conducting trauma-informed lockdown drills and discuss how they fit into a comprehensive school safety approach.
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Using Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented Principles to Support Student and Staff Resiliency
In this webinar, participants learn how they can improve their school's understanding of trauma, and enhance staff and student resiliency.
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An Introduction to Restorative Practices
This guide allows for any school personnel to learn what restorative practices are, their benefits, and considerations for their use in a school setting.
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School Safety Communications Planning Guide
This guide is intended to serve as a quick-start to help school leaders plan and share school safety-related initiatives and news with their communities.
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Physical Security Measures Overview
Designed for school personnel, this resource provides a snapshot of what physical security measures are and how they can be implemented in a school.
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