Toolkits & Guides

This guide discusses creating safe schools using a comprehensive and layered approach, organizing school safety strategies by the strength of their evidence base and where they fall on the prevention timeline. It also provides links to resources for implementing various school safety strategies.

This brief guide offers resources to help school staff as they plan and prepare for students returning to the classroom.

This brief guide offers resources to help caregivers as they plan and prepare for students returning to the classroom.

This guide was released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It offers new flexibilities and consolidates existing guidance, making it easier for all schools to receive payment for delivering Medicaid-covered services.

This toolkit created by CISA and NTAC includes strategies and guidance for safety reporting programs and encouraging bystander reporting.

This brief synopsis of Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management (BTAM) provides an overview of how BTAM can promote safety and prevent violence in school communities.

This brief synopsis of Restorative Practices (RP) provides an overview of RP principles, misconceptions about RP, and how RP can improve school climate and social emotional learning.

This guide brings together resources that explain how to collect and interpret school safety data, as well as translate it into effective data visualizations.

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.

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.

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.

This guide brings together resources that explain when to release or withhold student information collected through reporting systems and threat assessment processes.

This guide allows for any school personnel to learn what restorative practices are, their benefits, and considerations for their use in a school setting.

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.

Designed for school personnel, this resource provides a snapshot of what physical security measures are and how they can be implemented in a school.

This guide provides school staff with strategies to support students following traumatic events. It contains lessons learned, discussion tips, and mental health resources to help cope with a trauma response,

A toolkit outlining a framework for implementing Trauma-Informed, Resilience-Oriented (TR) approaches in schools and school districts.