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Connect with experts in communities across the country to access resources and services for keeping your community safe, including security assessments, educational tools, and physical security enhancements.
Find ideas and best practices regarding a range of threats and challenges, including violence against K-12 schools, campuses, faith-based organizations, churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship, health care providers, and other infrastructure; bullying; substance abuse; domestic violence; race-based violence and hate crimes; active shooters; bomb threats; financial crimes; cybersecurity threats, and much more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This guide supports community planning for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks (CCTAs), which includes leveraging expertise and capabilities across communities to help prepare for attacks. The guide outlines how to design collaborative planning teams and identify threats.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) What To Do – Bomb Threat Guidance outlines in-depth procedures for either bomb threats and unattended or suspicious items along with additional planning and resource information that will help you prepare and react appropriately during these events, including incident in which multiple or mass threats are received.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Tabletop Exercise Packages (CTEP) provide a range of downloadable exercise packages to assist organizations conduct exercises on their own. Includes all the scenarios, discussion questions, and templates that can be tailored to the organization’s needs. Available scenarios cover a range of targeted violence and terrorism-related topics including active shooters, vehicle ramming, improvised explosive devices, and more.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Faith Based Community and Houses of Worship security resources provides access to the comprehensive Mitigating Attacks on Houses of Worship Security Guide, which includes analysis, recommendations, and resources to enhance security using a holistic approach, how to conduct a vulnerability assessment, methods to engage the wider community, and more. The Houses of Worship Security Self-Assessment provides a roadmap for implementing suggested voluntary options to address security and personnel safety issues and emergencies, including best practices designed to improve facility security and preparedness through security and safety/emergency management, perimeter security/delineation, parking and barriers, and more.
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Department of Justice’s efforts to combat hate crimes, including: prosecutions; elevating civil rights crimes, including hate crimes, coordinating among agencies and organizations; expanding language access; reviewing incidents; reviewing United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) resources; conducting training; revitalizing the Community Relations Service (CRS); reviewing funding; and conducting awareness campaign.
This brochure from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division provides information on the prosecution of hate crimes, protecting the rights of individuals with HIV/AIDS, resources for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) community, and additional information to fight discrimination.
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (CRT) and Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforce federal civil rights laws in public and federally funded schools at all educational levels. Fact sheets and informational resources on hate crimes and discrimination are available on the CRT webpage. Anyone with information about discrimination occurring in schools or within the community may file a complaint by reaching out to the contacts listed.
Do not report suspicious activity to the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, notify local law enforcement.