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Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP)

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Strengthening School and Community Safety: Highlights from the 2024 Eastern West Virginia Safety Summit

Safe and Sound Schools, in partnership with the Berkeley County Commission, including the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department, hosted the inaugural Eastern West Virginia Safety Summit on Dec. 9-10.  

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Regional Prevention Coordinators Increase Awareness of Terrorism and Targeted Violence Prevention

Regional Prevention Coordinators (RPCs) work to strengthen the capacity of communities to engage in terrorism and targeted violence prevention. Based across the United States, RPCs increase awareness of targeted violence and violence prevention; provide resources, training, and technical assistance; advise on prevention programs and strategies; and improve information sharing between partners related to terrorism and targeted violence prevention.  

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CP3 Supports Law Enforcement Efforts to Prevent Terrorism

During the National Sheriff's Association conference, the CP3 team also strengthened partnerships with sheriffs, other law enforcement professionals, and government agencies by exhibiting a booth. Through driving important conversations with law enforcement partners at the NSA Conference, CP3 spread its mission of bolstering our homeland’s ability to prevent terrorism and targeted violence, and how law enforcement is a crucial component of that prevention.  

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How Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Teams Make American Communities Safer

In 2021, the Michigan State Police Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management (BTAM) team received reports of a possible threat against a state senator. Here’s how BTAM can help communities identify and address potential threats of violence. 

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Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Partner One Pager

The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) connects targeted violence and terrorism prevention (TVTP) providers, curates research and best practices, and helps states and communities build strategies and programs. 

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Exploring the Use of Three-Digit Call Lines

Three-digit helplines provide communities with an outlet to help them gain access to available information about relevant and local intervention resources. 

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Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Programs: Practitioner-Informed Baseline Capabilities

This report outlines fifteen practitioner-informed baseline capabilities for BTAM programs based on analysis of semi-structured interviews, a subject matter expert meeting, and a virtual feedback webinar with BTAM experts from a variety of operating contexts.

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Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management

Behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) is an evidence-based and systematic process to identify, inquire, assess, and manage potential threats. 

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Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in Practice

The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) has created this prevention resource to provide education on behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) and its benefits in targeted violence and terrorism prevention (TVTP).

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Preventing Targeted Violence Saves Lives — and Money

This publication illustrates estimated costs of targeted violence and compares those costs to those of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, which supports training programs to help people headed down a path toward violence.