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Connect with experts in communities across the country to access available resources and services, including security assessments, educational tools, and physical security enhancements. Access extensive educational materials, for both organizations and individuals, to provide your organization with best practices for keeping your community safe. Community support tools are available for educators, law enforcement, health care practitioners, behavioral and mental health professionals, faith-based organizations, affinity organizations, 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.
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This guide supports community planning for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks (CCTAs), which includes leveraging expertise and capabilities across communities to help prepare for attacks. The guide outlines how to design collaborative planning teams and identify threats.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) What To Do – Bomb Threat Guidance outlines in-depth procedures for either bomb threats and unattended or suspicious items along with additional planning and resource information that will help you prepare and react appropriately during these events, including incident in which multiple or mass threats are received.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Tabletop Exercise Packages (CTEP) provide a range of downloadable exercise packages to assist organizations conduct exercises on their own. Includes all the scenarios, discussion questions, and templates that can be tailored to the organization’s needs. Available scenarios cover a range of targeted violence and terrorism-related topics including active shooters, vehicle ramming, improvised explosive devices, and more.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Faith Based Community and Houses of Worship security resources provides access to the comprehensive Mitigating Attacks on Houses of Worship Security Guide, which includes analysis, recommendations, and resources to enhance security using a holistic approach, how to conduct a vulnerability assessment, methods to engage the wider community, and more. The Houses of Worship Security Self-Assessment provides a roadmap for implementing suggested voluntary options to address security and personnel safety issues and emergencies, including best practices designed to improve facility security and preparedness through security and safety/emergency management, perimeter security/delineation, parking and barriers, and more.
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.
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.
Victim assistance plans support and enhance response and recovery efforts for mass violence and terrorism victims. This toolkit supports communities and public safety officials develop comprehensive victim assistance plans, as a part of a community’s existing emergency response plan. The checklists included in the toolkit can be tailored to fit the needs of your community.
This brochure from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division provides information on the prosecution of hate crimes, protecting the rights of individuals with HIV/AIDS, resources for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) community, and additional information to fight discrimination.
The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) provides states and localities with federal leadership, grants, training and technical assistance, and other resources. The fact sheet includes hate crime research and statistics, and provides communities with guidance on how to report these crimes.
The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) advances the practice of community policing by the nation’s state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. This web page includes over 40 different resources for state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders.
Do not report suspicious activity to the Department of Homeland Security. Instead, notify local law enforcement.