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Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs

School safety reporting programs are designed to provide students and other community members with a trusted avenue for seeking help and reporting concerns when issues arise involving student wellness or safety. These systems facilitate early intervention when concerns are reported, thereby helping to prevent targeted violence and other negative outcomes in K-12 schools. In a combined effort to improve and encourage reporting, CISA’s School Safety Task Force and the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center have partnered to develop the K-12 Bystander Reporting Toolkit.  

“Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs” offers simple strategies and guidance K-12 schools and school districts can use to implement and enhance safety reporting programs and encourage bystander reporting among students and other members of the school community. It is designed to help school leaders create tailored, customized approaches that meet the needs of their unique communities and is applicable to schools and school districts at various levels of maturity in their approach to reporting.

Domestic Extremism: No One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Disengagement from Extremism Activity or Beliefs, Study Finds

National Institute of Justice (NIJ) supported research notes stark division in extremism disengagement pathways for persons with and without prison experience.

Research in Brief – Community Policing Strategies to Prevent Violent Extremism

This report presents the findings and methodology of research that examined issues in the use of community policing strategies to prevent violent extremism.

Understanding Domestic Radicalization and Terrorism

Understanding why and how people radicalize, as well as what can be done to prevent radicalization or intervene during the process, are key to countering violent extremism.

The National Counterterrorism Center Terrorism Prevention Brochure

This Brochure offers law enforcement and public safety personnel an overview of terrorism prevention and how to get involved in mitigating radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization to violent extremism.

Office for Partnership and Engagement

The Office for Partnership and Engagement (OPE) includes both the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and the Office of Academic Engagement who support engagements with critical partners at all levels of government. OPE also seeks to build, deepen, and operationalize relationships with the academic community on how to prevent targeted violence and terrorism.

Office for State and Local Law Enforcement

The Office for State and Local Law Enforcement (OSLLE) continues to actively engage with and provides DHS resources and critical information to all National Law Enforcement Associations and State, Local, Tribal, Territorial, and Campus Law Enforcement.

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.

Department of Justice Combating Hate Crimes Fact Sheet

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.