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Back2School Content

#Back2School with Know2Protect — a national effort to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) — has you covered with valuable internet safety resources that can help you protect the kids in your care.

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DHS Announces Membership to New Federal School Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board

DHS announced the inaugural members of the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board, a group of school safety experts and education leaders that will provide advice and recommendations on practical ways to enhance K-12 school safety and security.

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Feature Article: Digital Mapping Helps First Responders Better Navigate Inside Buildings

Agencies are using S&T-funded Mappedin to find their way quickly during critical incidents in schools and public buildings.

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Why Is Earth Systems Science Essential to National Security

Disasters from all-hazards and climate change will continue to affect our homeland and challenge DHS across a range of missions and frontline operations, exacerbating known and unknown risks to public safety and national security. Physical impacts of extreme weather and changing climatic conditions, such as environmental degradation, will increasingly intersect with human impacts of population growth, economic development, and technological innovation.

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How the Louisiana Youth Advisory Council Informs School Safety

March 2024 CP3 Prevention Connection Newsletter: Feature story about the Louisiana Youth Advisory Council (LYAC), which provides high school students with an avenue to propose recommendations on youth-related issues directly to lawmakers.

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Biden-Harris Administration Launches SchoolSafety.gov Awareness Campaign

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Justice (DOJ), launched a public awareness campaign to highlight federal school safety resources and evidence-based practices available through SchoolSafety.gov. The initiative is one of several new actions the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to support safer schools and communities.

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Secretary Mayorkas Appoints New Members to Academic Council to Advise DHS

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced new members to the Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council (HSAPC), which he reconstituted in 2022.

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Digital Ecosystems for Student Security, Safety, and Well-Being

Co-hosted with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) School Safety Task Force and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET), the goal of this Digital Forum was to engage with the education sector, school safety stakeholders, civil society, and technology companies to amplify programs and platforms that help reduce risk factors to the radicalization to violence, ensure broad awareness of the threat of targeted violence and terrorism, and share innovative solutions for prevention.

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CR Program Releases New Exercise Starter Kits for IHEs

Campus Resilience Program Releases New Exercise Starter Kits for Improvised Explosive Device, Hazardous Material Release, Tornado, and Earthquake Scenarios.

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2019 Florida RTTX Summary Report

The 2019 Florida RTTX Summary Report.