Threats Are No Joke! is a powerful PSA that highlights the serious consequences of making or sharing threats, even if they're meant as a joke. In this PSA, viewers see how a single text message shared among students quickly escalates into chaos, triggering fear, confusion, and a full law enforcement response. This PSA serves as a critical reminder that in today's world, there's no such thing as “just a joke” when it comes to threats about school violence, school safety, or harm to others. Whether spoken out loud, posted online, or sent in a text, threats, real or fake, can lead to legal consequences, school discipline, and have long-term consequences for a student's future.
A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Bullying provides parents with an overview of Texas bullying and cyberbullying laws. This video clarifies the difference between bullying, rude, and mean behaviors. It provides useful guidelines to working with schools in the event of a bullying situation. Maurine Molak, co-founder of David’s Legacy Foundation, also shares an important message, tips, and resources for parents.
The Cyber Safety and Digital Responsibility: A Parent’s Guide video is a collaboration between the Texas School Safety Center and Safer Schools Together. We recognize that technology is constantly evolving and deeply intertwined in the daily lives of our youth. This one and a half hour long training details the positive and negative ways youth are using technology and social media. The information in this training will empower you to facilitate a proactive conversation with the youth in your life on how to safely use today’s technology.
The Standard Response Protocol (SRP) provides consistent, clear, shared language and actions among all students, staff and first responders, that can be applied in any emergency. This video illustrates how to implement each of the SRP actions – Secure (Lockout), Lockdown, Evacuate, Shelter, and Hold – in a school setting. It is intended to accompany the SRP Toolkit and can be used to train school staff and students on the SRP. The Standard Response Protocol (SRP) referenced in the video was developed by the "I Love U Guys" Foundation.
Please note: This version of the SRP video has been updated to include the new language of "Secure (Lockout)" in place of Lockout.
