2024 Minnesota School Safety Center Conference June 26 - 27, 2024
When: Wednesday and Thursday, June 26 - 27, 2024
Location: Normandale Community College 9700 France Ave S, Bloomington, MN
Cost: This opportunity is FREE to attend!
Registration: Click Here
Join us for an exciting two days filled with valuable insights and practical tips to enhance safety in our schools. This in-person event brings together experts, educators, and public safety partners all passionate about creating a secure learning environment.
Our conference will cover a wide range of topics, including emergency preparedness, crisis response, behavioral threat assessment, and recovery. Engage in interactive sessions led by renowned speakers who will share their expertise and best practices.
Connect with like-minded individuals, exchange ideas, and build a strong network of professionals dedicated to keeping our schools safe. Whether you are a teacher, administrator, school resource officer, emergency manager, or public safety partner this conference offers something for everyone.
Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable knowledge, learn new strategies, and contribute to the safety of Minnesota schools. This event was a large success last year. We are proud to host the conference once again free of charge to all attendees, but space is limited. Mark your calendars and join us at the Minnesota School Safety Conference!
The intended audience for this conference is:
- School Administrators and District Leadership
- School Social Workers, Psychologists and Guidance Counselors
- School Safety Professionals and Crisis Team Members
- School Resource Officer and Public Safety Partners
- Emergency Managers
Minnesota Juvenile Officers Association
Conference, Nominations and Scholarships
The Minnesota Juvenile Officers Association has been in existence since 1955 and is dedicated to supporting police officers, social workers, corrections agents, school administrators, and all those involved in the systematic approach of today’s youth and the Criminal Justice System.
2024 MNJOA Conference
Holiday Inn & Suites, Duluth, MN
June 10th - June 12th, 2024.
Learn more about the conference and register here.
For questions regarding MNJOA membership, scholarships or awards, email Jenny Larrive, MNJOA Secretary or call at 612-322-0967
 Dates: November 6, 7, 8, 2024
Location: Cragun’s Conference Center, Brainerd, MN
Registration: Opening Soon
Call for Session Proposals
The Minnesota School Behavioral Health Conference is in its 7th year, bringing together collaborating partners and providers to build a school behavioral health framework of community, practice, and support. Attendees include schools, community mental health providers, advocates, consumers, policy makers, Tribal Nations, parents/caregivers, county and state government. The conference provides opportunities to network and learn about the latest developments and best practices related to supporting students with behavioral health needs, their families, and the broader school community.
This conference seeks to offer attendees purposeful tools and techniques to implement and produce a positive impact on behavioral health and mental well-being. Conference organizers are particularly interested in exhibits that address:
- What best practices or promising practices do you use to enhance student wellbeing?
- What can we do to put evidence-based practices into action?
- What resources can we utilize to empower all individuals to use data to determine the best outcomes for our youth?
- What does the research tell us are best practices for student success, including advancing equity and reducing disparities?
- What are evidence-based techniques for supporting both our youth and their parents/caregivers?
Thank you for considering submitting a proposal for the 2024 Minnesota School Behavioral Health Conference. Please note that as an exhibitor at the conference, you are agreeing to uphold our commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, community, and belonging.
Please be reminded of the following:
- You may submit more than one proposal for the event.
- Once you begin the electronic form, you must complete the form at that same time and cannot go back.
- Submit a separate form for each topic or session proposed.
- Complete and submit all required (*) areas of the form below.
- Proposals deadline has been extended through Monday, June 3rd, 2024.
- If you have any questions regarding the proposal form or process, please contact Jolene King at jking@lcsc.org
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When you are ready to submit your proposal, do so electronically here:
Exhibitor: Minnesota School Behavioral Health Conference: Call for Proposals
 3rd Annual Region 1 School Safety Summit
Region 1 Emergency Managers are happy to provide an opportunity to train with the I Love U Guys Foundation on their STMx - School Reunification Training.
Dates: June 11-13, 2024.
Location: Autumn Ridge Church, 3611 Salem Rd SW, Rochester MN
Registration: FREE to Attend
- DAY 1 Tuesday, June 11th, 8am - 5pm
- Lessons Learned and Classroom Session
- Must attend Day 1 to participate in Day 2 or Day 3
- DAY 2 Wednesday, June 12th, 8 am – 4 pm
- DAY 3 REPEATED Thursday, June 13th, 8 am – 4 pm
You only need to attend day 2 or day 3, not both days
Registration closes on June 1, 2024-- PLEASE register early to assure a spot! If there are registration questions, the Emergency Manager in your jurisdiction or Tammy Stewig, Le Sueur County Emergency Management Director will reach out for clarification.
Each person needs to register individually with name, email, school district/entity or county/city/tribal (emergency managers). When registering, please use “Save and Continue” (you may need to close the ad) at the bottom to advance to the next page. Please do not change the “quantity”, it should remain as 1 because each person needs to register individually. If you attended last year, Region 1 Emergency Managers reserve the right to bump you for a new attendee if class fills up.
 Dates: July 22-24, 2024.
Location: Como Zoo and Conservatory, 1225 Estabrook Drive, St. Paul. MN 55103
Registration: Read more and register HERE.
Cost: $300 Before July 1st, $350 After July 1st
All of us are social creatures, and the strength of our relationships has a significant impact on our overall well-being. Young people use social media to build connections, access resources, and explore their identities. Adults are sometimes aware of the positive and negative aspects of technology, but often struggle to guide and advise adolescents on safe and healthy use when technology is constantly present and ever-changing.
During the 2024 Summer Institute in Adolescent Health, we will explore how professionals, parents, and caring adults can engage with and promote the healthy use of technology. Identify how childhood experiences with social media affect adolescent brain development and social, behavioral, academic, and health outcomes. Examine digital literacy, dissect the exploitative nature of influencer culture, and develop skills to empower youth with marginalized identities. Gain an understanding of current advocacy efforts at state and national levels aimed at boosting online protections for youth and envision a future where young people’s needs come before advertisers’ and big tech’s profits.
Contact Jenna Baumgartner with questions at baum0272@umn.edu
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Grant Opportunities
SchoolSafety.gov’s Grants Finder Tool helps you find applicable funding opportunities to help keep your school community safe. The tool features a variety of Federally available school safety-specific grants that you can navigate based on school safety topic, award amount, application level of effort, and more. As Federal agencies release school safety funding opportunities and grants throughout the year, the tool will be updated on an ongoing basis to reflect these opportunities.
Opportunities with approaching deadlines:
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Nonprofit Security Grant Program – This program provides funding support for facility hardening and other physical security enhancements and activities to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of terrorist attack.
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Homeland Security Grant Program – This suite of risk-based grants is intended to assist state, local, tribal, and territorial efforts in preventing, protecting against, mitigating, responding to and recovering from acts of terrorism and other threats.
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Cooperative Agreements for the Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Program (June 3) - Provides funding to support states and Tribes with implementing youth (up to age 24) suicide prevention and early intervention strategies in schools, educational institutions, juvenile justice systems, substance use and mental health programs, foster care systems, pediatric health programs, and other child- and youth-serving organizations.
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COPS Hiring Program (June 6) - Provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of the CHP program awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agency to engage in community policing activities.
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Enhancing School Capacity To Address Youth Violence (June 10) - Provides funding to support targeted efforts to address youth violence through implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts in a school-based setting (K–12th grade only). The goals of the program are to (1) reduce the incidence of school violence through improved school safety and climate and (2) prevent youth violence, delinquency, and victimization in the targeted community.
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School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) (June 11) - Provides funding to States, units of local government, Indian tribes, and their public agencies to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the jurisdiction of the grantee through evidence-based school safety programs and technology.
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STOP (Students Teachers Officers Preventing) School Violence Program (June 12) - Provides funding to improve school safety by providing students, teachers, and staff with the tools they need to recognize, respond quickly to, and prevent acts of violence. This program seeks to increase school safety by implementing solutions that will improve school climate. Solutions include school-based behavioral threat assessments and/or intervention teams to identify school violence risks among students, technological innovations that are shown to increase school safety such as anonymous reporting technology, and other school safety strategies that assist in preventing violence.
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Renew America's Schools Prize (June 13) - Provides funding to help districts build capacity, perform energy audits, and plan/implement energy improvement projects across a portfolio of school facilities.
Please note: This funding opportunity consists of three phases. During Phase 1, competitors will build teams and curate lists of at least 10 schools and school facilities that demonstrate compelling need and eligibility for investment. Phase 1 winners will earn a cash prize of $300,000 and move on to Phases 2 and 3, during which they will enter and execute Cooperative Agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Strategies to Support Children Exposed to Violence (June 24) - Provides funding to communities to develop coordinated and comprehensive community-based approaches to help children and their families who are exposed to violence build resilience, restore their safety, heal their social and emotional wounds, and prevent future violence and delinquency. Funding can be used to develop and/or enhance support services for children exposed to violence to reduce the adverse impact of violence on youth, families, and communities, and to help family-serving organizations better recognize and help families at risk for exposure to violence.
Visit the SchoolSafety.gov Grants Finder Tool for additional school safety related funding opportunities.
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 You may have heard the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) is getting a new website — and you’d be right! This means the Minnesota School Safety Center's website will soon look and function very differently, in all the best ways!
Between now and the end of the calendar year you may find things in different places or even missing, and the site may look very altered. MnSSC encourages anyone looking for tools normally found on their website to reach out to the team via email or phone - they will provide you the resource directly.
During this redesign process, DPS partnered with a vendor who specializes in website redesign. Involving the vendor and their expertise has allowed for more eyes on the project, technical assistance and support, knowledge of best practices and regulations around accessibility and cyber security.
Just like DPS is partnering with a vendor to assist them in their website redesign, the Minnesota School Safety Center (MnSSC) is here to partner with you during your redesigns and construction. Whether it is the new construction of your physical entry or the redesign of your EOP/Crisis Plan, MnSSC is here to act as another set of trained and specialized ears and eyes for you and your school communities.
The MN School Safety Center serves as a resource for all-hazards safety planning and training of all preK-12 schools (public, public charter, private, and tribal.) Their work is a non-regulatory and no-cost resource to you and your learning communities. Email any member of the MN School Safety Center to work with their team.
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