The nonprofit Safe and Sound Schools has created Especially Safe trainings to help schools plan for the unique needs of students and staff. Founded by parents who lost children at Sandy Hook School (Michele Gay, mother of Josephine Grace Gay, and Alissa Parker, mother of Emilie Parker), Safe and Sound is a national non-profit school safety advocacy and resource center that provides research based tools and support for crisis prevention, response, and recovery, helping to protect every school, every student, every day.

To learn more about this program, visit https://safeandsoundschools.org/.