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Federal Emergency Management Agency Center for Domestic Preparedness

Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) provides advanced, all-hazards training to emergency responders annually from state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as the federal government, foreign governments, and private entities, as available. The scope of training includes bomb threat preparedness, hazardous materials awareness, crisis standards of care, and much more.

Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring Program

This grant program provides funds directly to law enforcement agencies for additional career law enforcement officers to increase community policing capacity. Applicants receive additional consideration for focusing community policing efforts on "Combatting Hate and Domestic Extremism", and/or seeking support for programs to identify and prevent the radicalization of applicants and personnel who endorse violent and hateful extremist movements.

DOJ Combating Hate Crimes Fact Sheet

This U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) fact sheet provides an overview of the DOJ'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.

(Published 2023)

Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination

This U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) resource explains that laws prohibiting national origin discrimination make it illegal to discriminate because of a person's birthplace, ancestry, culture or language. This means people cannot be denied equal opportunity because they or their family are from another country, because they have a name or accent associated with a national origin group, because they participate in certain customs associated with a national origin group, or because they are married to or associate with people of a certain national origin.

Department of Justice & Department of Education Hate Crime Resources

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.

Foundations of Targeted Violence Prevention Training

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis, National Threat Evaluation and Reporting (NTER) Office has partnered with the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to release an eLearning module for the public titled, “Foundations of Targeted Violence Prevention."

This approximately 1 hour eLearning aims to educate the public on threatening or potentially concerning behaviors and where to report them, providing an opportunity for intervention to prevent targeted violence from occurring. It seeks to assist in preventing targeted violence by empowering community members to: recognize threats or potentially concerning behaviors; understand what behaviors may be displayed by a person who is on a pathway to violence; learn where to report information of concern; and understand how the information reported will be used to keep our community safe.

Department of the Treasury Domestic Violent Extremism Financing Resources

The Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) landing page is a collection of reports and assessments on DVE activity that serve as a resource for private and public sector entities seeking to develop an understanding of DVEs, their foreign counterparts, and associated financial activity.  The resources are intended to enhance the identification and analysis of financial activity associated with domestic terrorists and their foreign counterparts, as well as enhancing engagement with financial institutions on domestic terrorist financing.  Financial institutions in particular may use these in developing their financial crime risk assessments or enhancing their own Anti Money Laundering /Counter Terrorist Financing monitoring systems.  They can also support federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement in analyzing DVE financial activity in their investigations, and other government and non-government organizations that are supporting a range of terrorism and violence prevention efforts.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency De-Escalation Series for Critical Infrastructure Owners and Operators

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) De-Escalation Series for Critical Infrastructure Owners and Operators contains four products to assist in recognizing the warning signs of someone on a path to violence: assess if the situation or person of concern is escalating; de-escalate the situation currently taking place; and report the situation through organizational reporting or 9-1-1 for immediate threats.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Training and Awareness Resources

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Training and Awareness resources offers a variety of multimedia awareness tools to assist the general public and the public and private sectors to prevent, protect against, respond to, and mitigate bombing incidents—including reference cards, posters, checklists, guides, videos, briefings, and applications—as well as nationally accredited training available through multiple platforms, including direct delivery in-person in a traditional classroom setting, in-residence at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), online through a virtual instructor-led training (VILT) platform, and through independent study training (IST).

U.S. Secret Service Threat Assessment Training

The U.S. Secret Service’s (USSS) National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) conducts training on threat assessments and the prevention of targeted violence. Law enforcement and public safety stakeholders are encouraged to leverage training and the free resources on the NTAC website. These resources examine attacks against government facilities and personnel, law enforcement, K-12 schools, colleges/universities, workplaces, and mass attacks in public spaces. For more information about this training, please contact NTAC-DSS@usss.dhs.gov.