Safety
The recent shooting has evoked many emotions—sadness, grief, helplessness, anxiety, and anger. Children who are struggling with their thoughts and feelings about the stories and images of the shooting may turn to trusted adults for help and guidance.
Stop. Think. Connect. is a national public awareness campaign aimed at increasing the understanding of cyber threats and empowering American public to be safer and more secure online.
Sesame Street in Communities is an online community for sharing Sesame Street’s free educational resources with the adults in children’s lives.
Say Something Anonymous Reporting System allows you to submit secure & anonymous safety concerns to help identify and intervene upon at-risk individuals BEFORE they hurt themselves or others. You can do this by reporting observed threats, behaviors, actions and harassment.
The online source for current and past scholarly research about all aspects of injury prevention.
The Online Safety Quiz is your chance to show that you know how to be a safe Internet surfer.
The National School Safety Center, state governors, and state school superintendents sponsor America’s Safe Schools Week annually in October.
School safety includes keeping campuses free of crime and violence, improving discipline, and increasing student attendance. Schools that are safe and free of violence, weapons, and drugs are necessary to ensure the well-being of all children and the quality of their education.
The most important strategy is to place school safety on the educational agenda. This includes developing a safe schools plan – an ongoing process that encompasses the development of district-wide crime prevention policies, in-service training, crisis preparation, interagency cooperation, and student/parent participation. These ideas are primary strategies to help inform, persuade, and integrate school safety and public opinion. These ideas will facilitate planning and the implementation of the remaining strategies.
Ideal interventions promote the evidence-based principles of Psychological First Aid (PFA), including: safety calming, self- and community-efficacy, social connectedness, and a sense of hope/optimism. Information relevant to this event and links to brief, easy to read, action-oriented education fact sheets are provided in the link below.
Spot signs of trauma, and learn how you can help.
SAVE is a student driven organization. Students learn about alternatives to violence and practice what they learn through school and community service projects. As they participate in SAVE activities, students learn crime prevention and conflict management skills and the virtues of good citizenship, civility, and nonviolence.
Designed to help parents talk to children about how to protect themselves against abduction and exploitation.