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The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) is introducing Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in Practice, an evidence-based prevention resource to enhance your terrorism and targeted violence prevention efforts.
This versatile resource, translated into 14 languages, is designed for implementation in schools, workplaces, and communities, empowering teams to create safer environments and prevent violence before it escalates.
BTAM offers a systematic process to identify, inquire, assess, and manage potential threats. By fostering collaboration among multidisciplinary teams — including law enforcement, school resource officers, faith communities, mental health providers, and State and Local governments — BTAM provides proactive alternatives to criminal justice intervention for individuals at risk of violence. Prevention assists our public safety partners in addressing a critical gap and reduces criminal justice costs. This was achieved through the implementation of 17 BTAM projects developed with $8.1 million in funding from the FY2020-2023 TVTP Grant Program.
The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) Regional Prevention Coordinators (RPCs) work to increase awareness of targeted violence and violence prevention, provide resources, training, and technical assistance, advise on prevention programs and strategies, and improve information sharing between partners.
RPCs: Violence Prevention Resources in Your Community
This video features partners discussing the importance of the RPC role and showcases the impactful work RPCs are doing in their communities.
“There's a reason why I'm a big supporter of the regional prevention coordinators, because they are in the communities, they live there. They know the people, they know the chief of police, they know the local pastor. That connectivity, that sustained ability to be there matters a great deal.” - Seamus Hughes, Senior Research Faculty, University of Nebraska-Omaha, NCITE
Contact Your Regional Prevention Coordinator
Click here to find the contact information for your Regional Prevention Coordinator. For general questions, including questions about connecting to prevention provider networks in your state or locality, or identifying funding sources to support prevention activities, please contact CP3Field@hq.dhs.gov.
On Friday, December 20th, CP3 released its Fiscal Year 2024 Report to Congress. This report provides detailed information requested by Congress regarding the evidence base for CP3's activities, as well as the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections that are integrated into those activities. Additionally, it includes comprehensive details about the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Grant Program.
In FY 2024, DHS received the highest number and most geographically diverse set of qualified applications of any grant cycle to date receiving 178 eligible applications from 47 U.S. states and territories, including Washington, DC, requesting $98.9 million for the available $18 million.
The FY24 Report to Congress highlights the work of our grantees who provided case management services. Seventeen grantees contributed data for this report. Here are some key highlights from the case management data:
- A total of 1,172 cases were managed by 17 FY20-FY23 grantees offering case management services as of mid-2024. These services were delivered through Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) projects, referral projects, and recidivism reduction and reintegration projects.
- There were 881 referrals made to external services for these 1,172 cases. The most common service for which referrals were made was mental/behavioral health counseling, with 476 of the 881 referrals being for these services.
- The top grievance or ideological motivation for the cases handled was “Personal Grievance,” with 264 cases, followed by REMVE (161 cases). It is noteworthy that the predominant motivation cited by our grantees was non-ideological.
- The average cost per managed case was $6,900. This figure is not included in the report but was calculated based on the budgets of the 17 case management grantees overseeing the 1,172 cases mentioned in the report.
- Eight grantees are featured in the case summaries section (p. 29) without personally identifiable information, serving as illustrative examples of the cases managed by our grantees through their TVTP grant-funded projects.
CP3 continues to ensure the protection of individuals' privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties as required under DHS legal authorities and policy. Preventing targeted violence and terrorism necessitates the trust and voluntary involvement of all societal elements, and CP3 aims to ensure that its programs uphold fundamental constitutional and legal protections. We encourage you to review Section IV (pp. 10-16) for detailed information on the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections integrated into the TVTP Grant Program.
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CP3 prioritizes privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties within DHS legal authorities and policy. CP3 works to ensure that its programs include fundamental constitutional and legal protections. CP3 does not engage in widespread data collection or activities like law enforcement investigations or intelligence gathering. CP3 does not engage in censorship or encourage or facilitate any censorship. Government censorship of viewpoints not only infringes on individuals’ constitutional rights, but it is also an ineffective tactic to prevent targeted violence and terrorism.