Help for some peace of mind.

NBC News reports.

Parents: Here’s How to Not Go Crazy Worrying About Your College Student’s Safety

A shooting at Mississippi’s Delta State University last week renewed the gravest concern a parent has when sending students away to college: that their kids’ safety could be compromised.

While campus shootings and other big school security threats are relatively rare, experts say, they do happen — and seeing them in the headlines, even far away from where their own child is, can be enough to rattle any parent.

The good news is, most schools offer email or text alerts and even apps that send notifications to parents in the event of an emergency. But not all parents opt in.

“With higher ed, the difficulty is getting people signed up to (alert) systems and keeping them maintained,” said Chris Dorn, analyst for Safe Havens International, a campus safety organization.