Evaluation of the Greater Boston Countering Violent Extremism Pilot Program Project Report

On October 1, 2015, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health started the project entitled “Evaluation of the Greater Boston Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Pilot Program,” sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology Directorate under the funding opportunity 2015-ST-108-FRG005 entitled “Program Evaluation of the “Three Cities” Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) Initiatives.” The main goal of this funding opportunity has been to bring together experts in the areas of program evaluation and violent extremism to integrate scientifically derived knowledge into homeland security policies and, more specifically, to generate substantive evaluation data that can be used by practitioners and policy makers to improve prevention approaches to violent extremism.