The Newest Response to School Shootings: 'Mass Casualty Survival' Training for Students

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering a new $1.8 million grant for a program teaching high school students "mass casualty survival techniques" in the event of school shootings, expanding a training that some medical experts say should be "as common as CPR."

The School-Age Trauma Training program will aim to teach high school students medical triage and bleeding control techniques to help victims who have sustained traumatic injuries until first responders arrive.