Capacity Building

This four-session learning community will assist schools in creating and strengthening a site crisis navigation team.

The 2023 Students, Teachers, Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence grant solicitations are provided through three agencies: the BJA, the COPS Office, and the OJJDP.

The 2023 Students, Teachers, Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence grant solicitations are designed to improve school security. This webinar provides information for the 2023 grant solicitation.

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.

STOP Grantees are invited to the Winter 2023 Quarterly Meeting. Come together with fellow STOP grantees to hear updates from NCSS and engage in small group discussions about how your grant project intersects with school climate and culture.

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.

You will hear directly from the BJA STOP Team and the NCSS about grant management and administration requirements, how to effectively oversee your grant, resources available to support you with program implementation, and training and technical assistance support that NCSS provides.

STOP Grantees are invited to the October 2022 Quarterly Meeting. Join fellow STOP grantees to learn the latest updates from NCSS, engage in small group discussions with others in your region, and hear a presentation on school safety plans from our NCSS School Safety Specialists.

Learn how to identify and strategize engaging with everyone in your school safety network through this self-paced training.

STOP Grantees are invited to the June 2022 Quarterly Meeting. Join fellow STOP grantees from all regions to network and learn about successful practices in small groups.

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,

In this four-session workshop series, facilitators from Sandy Hook Promise and NCSS will guide participants through discussions centered on specific school safety scenarios. Participants will reflect on their own organization’s capabilities and identify local risks and hazards.

The STOP School Violence Grant Program is designed to improve school security. This is a recording of the informational webinar for the 2022 grant solicitation that took place on April 27, 2022.

The 2022 Students, Teachers, Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence grant solicitations are provided through three agencies: the BJA, the COPS Office, and the OJJDP.

STOP Grantees are invited to the March 2022 Quarterly Regional Meeting. Join fellow STOP grantees to network, get to know the new FY2021 grant awardees, and learn about successful practices in small groups.

You will hear directly from the BJA STOP Team and the NCSS about grant management and administration requirements, how to effectively oversee your grant, resources available to support you with program implementation, and training and technical assistance support that NCSS provides.

Grow your understanding of what it means to be a school leader and gain strategies you can use to navigate crises while maintaining a trauma-informed, resilience-oriented lens.

In the third and final episode of our series “What It Means to Be a School Leader”, Dr. Henderson-Smith discusses leading through a crisis and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

In episode two of our series “What It Means to Be a School Leader”, Dr. Henderson-Smith explains how school leaders can turn challenges into opportunities.

In the first episode of our series “What It Means to Be a School Leader”, Dr. Linda Henderson-Smith describes what a good leader is and what it means to be trauma-informed and resilience-oriented.

STOP Grantees are invited to the October 2021 Quarterly Regional Meeting. Join fellow STOP grantees to network and learn about successful practices in small groups.

CrimeSolutions.OJP.gov is a Clearinghouse with information on crime & crime prevention, juveniles, law enforcement, and technology & forensics.

The Safer Schools and Campuses Best Practices Clearinghouse was created in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and to support the reopening and continuing operations of schools.

SchoolSafety.gov is a clearinghouse of resources related to safe schools.