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Participate in both in-person and virtual training opportunities with experts on how to prevent violence, respond to emergencies, provide support during mental health crises, and support victims of attacks. These trainings also help communities develop active shooter response, build their emergency operations plans, and conduct expert briefings to help communities identify individuals who may be moving towards violence. Training opportunities are available for the general public, educators, law enforcement, health care practitioners, behavioral and mental health professionals, 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.
This is an online version of a classroom course for public safety leaders, which offers strategic leadership guidance and response strategies to prepare for an active shooter attack.
The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance (REMS TA) Center supports schools, districts, and institutions of higher education in school emergency management and planning, including the development and implementation of comprehensive, all-hazards, high-quality emergency operations plans. REMS TA Center offers on-site training for train-the-trainer, specialized training packages with self-paced training materials and tabletop exercises, and online courses for practitioners on emergency operations planning development and more.
VetoViolence is the Division of Violence Prevention’s public-facing online resource for violence prevention education and training. It provides online trainings, step by step guides, resources, and information. With over twenty different trainings, tools and resources, the topics covered range from prevention fundamentals to information on how to address risks shared by different forms of violence, and tools for effectively building partnerships to prevent violence.
The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) delivers numerous trainings for law enforcement, including the Law Enforcement Awareness Briefing (LAB) which provides a comprehensive overview of targeted violence and terrorism prevention, Threat Assessment and Threat Management (TATM) which equips front line officers with the knowledge and tools to prevent mass casualty violence, and the Physical Security Assessment Training (PSAT) which introduces concepts and demonstrates techniques for conducting physical security assessments in locations or on facilities/infrastructure where mass gatherings are likely to occur (e.g., stadiums, houses of worship, schools, convention centers).
The Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) training strategy is a multifaceted approach designed to increase the effectiveness of state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement and public safety professionals and other frontline partners in identifying, reporting, evaluating, and sharing pre-incident terrorism indicators to prevent acts of terrorism. These trainings are designed for frontline officers and hometown security partners to provide information on documented and verified behaviors and indicators that, when viewed in the context of all known facts and circumstances, may indicate terrorism-related criminal activity.
Category: Training Opportunities; Threat Identification and Assessment Training
The State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program addresses how to prevent terrorism, targeted violence, and hate crimes by providing no-cost and role-based training, resources, and technical assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers and agencies.
Do not report suspicious activity to the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, notify local law enforcement.