Community Support Resources

Department of Homeland Security CP3 Regional Prevention Coordinators

Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) has Regional Prevention Coordinators (RPCs) across the United States to help establish and support prevention efforts at the local level. RPCs help to deliver CP3’s trainings, connect prevention practitioners, and build networks that can support local prevention efforts. RPCs also help to keep CP3 informed of local efforts, innovative approaches, and techniques used to engage the community in prevention activities and share promising practices within their networks.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorism Task Forces & National Joint Terrorism Task Force

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF) & National Joint Terrorism Task Force (NJTTF) serve as our nation's front line of defense against terrorism, both international and domestic. These task forces develop relationships within law enforcement and public safety officials in communities before a crisis by conducting frequent trainings to maintain the specialized skills of investigators, analysts, and crisis response teams.

Making Prevention a Reality: Identifying, Assessing, and Managing the Threat of Targeted Attacks

This in-depth FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) publication consolidates academic research and operational expertise focused on preventing acts of targeted violence, with a focus on identifying, assessing, and managing the threat of targeted attacks.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Active Shooter Preparedness Resources

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Active Shooter Preparedness Resources provide products, tools, and resources to help prepare for and respond to an active shooter incident. These resources are focused on behavioral indicators, potential attack methods, emergency action plan development, actions that may be taken to increase probability of survival, and how to quickly recover from an incident.

About The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention

Public health draws on a science base that is multi-disciplinary. It relies on knowledge from a broad range of disciplines including medicine, epidemiology, sociology, psychology, criminology, education, and economics. This broad knowledge base has allowed the field of public health to respond successfully to a range of health conditions across the globe.

The public health approach also emphasizes input from diverse sectors including health, education, social services, justice, policy, and the private sector. Collective action on the part of these key collaborators can help in addressing problems like violence.

National Strategy to Counter Domestic Terrorism

2021 National Strategy to Counter Domestic Terrorism

Community Relations Service

CRS serves as “America’s Peacemaker” for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. CRS works toward its mission by providing facilitated dialogue, mediation, training, and consultation to assist these communities to come together, develop solutions to the conflict, and enhance their capacity to independently prevent and resolve future conflict.

All CRS services are confidential and provided on a voluntary basis, free of charge to the communities. CRS is not an investigatory or prosecutorial agency and does not have any law enforcement authority. CRS works with all parties to develop solutions to conflict and serves as a neutral party.

FBI Hate Crime Threat Response Guide

The FBI Hate Crime Threat Response Guide describes how to respond to various types of hate crime threats (physical, verbal, phoned, electronic, and written or visual threats). It provides instructions, including contact information for FBI field offices, on reporting hateful threats and harassment. 

CISA Physical Security Webpage

Defending our homeland begins with protecting our nation’s hometown security – our physical security. Providing comprehensive physical security requires expertise across a broad range of physical environments and threat types. From public gatherings, schools, businesses, and houses of worship, there are a vast number of physical locations that must be protected. These locations are vulnerable to active shooter, bombing, unmanned aircraft, vehicle ramming as well as insider threat attacks. There are preventative and protective strategies that can be implemented at the federal, state, local and tribal government levels, within business and organizational structures, and for each individual citizen to safeguard our nation’s physical security.

Surgeon General's Advisory on Firearm Violence

The Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence declares firearm violence in America to be a public health crisis. This advisory is the first publication from the Office of the Surgeon General dedicated to this issue, and it outlines the devastating and far-reaching consequences that firearm violence poses to the health and well-being of the country.