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Community Support Resources

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Connect with experts in communities across the country to access available resources and services, including security assessments, educational tools, and physical security enhancements. Access extensive educational materials, for both organizations and individuals, to provide your organization with best practices for keeping your community safe. Community support tools are available for educators, law enforcement, health care practitioners, behavioral and mental health professionals, faith-based organizations, affinity organizations, and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.

Each set of resources below is searchable by keyword. You can also filter the results to see the resources most relevant to different stakeholder groups (key audience) and which department/agency/office provided the resource, as well as filter by subcategory.

All the information in the Prevention Resource Finder is government-owned or sponsored.

  • U.S. Secret Service Domestic Security Strategists

    The U.S. Secret Service’s (USSS) National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) has regional outreach coordinators positioned in USSS Field Offices across the country to maintain relationships with key public safety stakeholders and facilitate access to NTAC’s research, training, and consultation resources. Domestic Security Strategists serve as the frontline point of contact for regional, state, and local officials seeking to develop their organizations’ behavioral threat assessment capabilities with the support and subject matter expertise of NTAC. For more information or to contact your regional NTAC coordinator, please contact NTAC-DSS@usss.dhs.gov.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Field Staff
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Secret Service (USSS)
    Key Audience(s):
    Education, Faith-Based Organizations, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Mental Health/Behavioral Health/Human Services, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Office for Bombing Prevention

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Office for Bombing Prevention (OBP) enhances our country’s ability to prevent, protect against, respond to, and mitigate the use of explosives against critical infrastructure; the private sector; federal, state, local, tribal, territorial entities; faith-based communities; and schools and institutions of higher education. OBP provides specialized information, guidance, training, and technical assistance resources for those who have a role in planning for, or responding to, bomb threats, suspicious items, and actual bombing incidents, consistent with the FBI-DHS Security and Resiliency Guide for Countering Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), which provides comprehensive best practices for entire communities, individual organizations, and specific facility owner/operators to strengthen security and resilience for bombing incidents.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Targeted Violence and Terrorism
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
    Key Audience(s):
    Education, Faith-Based Organizations, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Mental Health/Behavioral Health/Human Services, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Fusion Centers

    State and major urban area fusion centers (fusion centers) serve as the primary focal points within the state and local environment for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information among federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and campus partners. Fusion centers are uniquely situated to empower law enforcement and other front-line personnel to share threat-related information, including through the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Targeted Violence and Terrorism
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence & Analysis, National Threat Evaluation and Reporting Office

    The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis, National Threat Evaluation and Reporting (NTER) Office provides law enforcement and homeland security partners with resources and training to assist in identifying and preventing targeted violence and mass casualty incidents, including terrorism. NTER is the program and training lead for the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) to assist partners in identifying, reporting, and sharing suspicious activity. NTER’s Master Trainer Program certifies federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners in behavioral threat assessment and management to assist local communities in building capacity to prevent terrorism and targeted violence.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Targeted Violence and Terrorism
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)
    Key Audience(s):
    Law Enforcement, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Power of Hello Campaign

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Power of Hello campaign assists security and non-security personnel easily identify observable suspicious behaviors. Its basic principle is that simply saying “Hello” can prompt a casual conversation with individuals to help determine if there is a potential for nefarious action. The product leverages an “OHNO” approach – Observe, Initiate a Hello, Navigate the Risk, and Obtain Help – to prompt individuals to observe and evaluate suspicious behaviors, recognize, and mitigate potential risk, and secure help.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Public Awareness Campaigns
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
    Key Audience(s):
    Education, Faith-Based Organizations, General Public, Health Care, Mental Health/Behavioral Health/Human Services, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Department of Homeland Security If You See Something, Say Something® Campaign

    Informed and alert communities play a critical role in keeping our country safe. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) If You See Something, Say Something® campaign partners include state, local, tribal, and territorial governments who are essential to increasing awareness about how to report suspicious activity to prevent acts of violence and provides guidance to the public on how to report suspicious activity.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Public Awareness Campaigns
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
    Key Audience(s):
    Education, Faith-Based Organizations, General Public, Law Enforcement, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation Resource Booklet for Reproductive Health Care Providers and Their Staffs

    This booklet from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in coordination with other partners on the National Task Force on Violence against Reproductive Health Care Providers, contains information about proactive security measures to reduce risk and prevent violence against reproductive health care personnel and facilities.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Prevention and Preparedness Guidance
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Rights Division (CRT), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
    Key Audience(s):
    Health Care
    Last Updated:

  • Department of Justice Hate Crimes Website

    The Department of Justice created this website as a centralized portal for all its hate crimes resources for law enforcement, media, researchers, victims, advocacy groups, and other interested organizations and individuals.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Discrimination/Hate Crimes Guidance
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Justice (DOJ)
    Key Audience(s):
    General Public
    Last Updated:

  • Department of Justice United States Attorney’s Office: Preventing Terrorism and Targeted Violence Fact Sheet

    This fact sheet provides an overview of the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) functions and outlines how through engagement with local communities (e.g., schools, houses of worship, private industry), USAOs help stakeholders prevent, reduce, prepare for, and respond to acts of terrorism and targeted violence.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Prevention and Preparedness Guidance
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    Department of Justice (DOJ), Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA)
    Key Audience(s):
    Education, Faith-Based Organizations, General Public, Law Enforcement, State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:

  • U.S. Agency for International Development Policy for Countering Violent Extremism Through Development Assistance

    The Countering Violent Extremism Through Development Assistance policy includes lessons that could be adopted and useful within the United States, as identified by overseas development work. This policy also provides updated guidance for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs that aim to prevent and counter violent extremism overseas.

    Categories:
    Community Support Resources, Prevention and Preparedness Guidance
    Dept/Org/Agency:
    U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
    Key Audience(s):
    State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Government
    Last Updated:
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Do not report suspicious activity to the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, notify local law enforcement.