Community Support Resources

Exploring the Use of Three-Digit Call Lines

This Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) report provides an overview of current research and programming efforts to integrate targeted violence and terrorism prevention (TVTP) information and practice into three-digit call lines, such as 211 and 311 assistance and information telephone numbers, as well as 911 and 988 emergency and crisis support lines.

(Published 2024)

K-12 Anonymized Threat Response Guidance

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) “Anonymized Threat Response Guidance: A Toolkit for K-12 Schools” can help K-12 schools and law enforcement and community partners create tailored approaches to addressing anonymous threats of violence, including those received on social media. The toolkit outlines steps that school leaders can take to assess and respond to anonymous threats and better prepare for and prevent future threats. It also highlights how K-12 schools can work with law enforcement and community partners in addressing these threats.  

The accompanying “Anonymized Threat Response Guidance: A Reference Guide for K-12 Schools” provides streamlined information for K-12 stakeholders to understand and utilize some of the best practices from the full toolkit.

These products are applicable to K-12 schools across diverse geographical settings, student populations and levels of maturity in emergency operations planning.

(Published 2024)

Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap

The Department of Justice (DOJ) launched the Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap as a one-stop-shop to assist local jurisdictions in developing, implementing, and evaluating the right set of strategies to prevent, intervene in, and respond to acts of community gun violence.

(Created 2024)

Enhancing Behavioral Threat Assessment and Case Management Capabilities Through a Public Health-Informed Approach: CP3 Prevention Resource

Behavioral threat assessment and management models are increasingly used by schools, workplaces, and communities to offer early intervention services to individuals who display concerning behaviors. Through federal grant funding and technical assistance, the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) has supported the development of dozens of behavioral threat assessment and management teams in communities across the United States.

Based on this work and engagement with experts, researchers, and practitioners, this Prevention Resource outlines how behavioral threat assessment and case management models may benefit by adopting a public health-informed approach to targeted violence and terrorism prevention. It also summarizes emerging practices in case management techniques to build practitioner capacity at all levels of violence prevention. A case study describes how these recommendations can be put into practice.

(Published 2024)

(Available in multiple languages)

First Responder's Toolbox: Understanding and Mitigating Violent Extremism Among Offenders

This Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) First Responders Toolbox product raises awareness of violent extremism and provides resources for corrections, probation, parole officers, and other stakeholders.

The Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) is a collaboration by NCTC, DHS, FBI, state, local, tribal, and territorial government personnel to improve information sharing and enhance public safety. The First Responder's Toolbox is an ad hoc, unclassified reference aid intended to promote counterterrorism coordination among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government authorities and partnerships with private sector officials in deterring, preventing, disrupting, and responding to terrorist attacks.

(March 2024)

First Responder's Toolbox: Terrorism Prevention Spectrum

This Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) First Responders Toolbox product provides public safety personnel an overview of the spectrum of activities that fall under “Terrorism Prevention.”

The Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) is a collaboration by NCTC, DHS, FBI, state, local, tribal, and territorial government personnel to improve information sharing and enhance public safety. The First Responder's Toolbox is an ad hoc, unclassified reference aid intended to promote counterterrorism coordination among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government authorities and partnerships with private sector officials in deterring, preventing, disrupting, and responding to terrorist attacks.

(June 2024)

First Responder's Toolbox: Enhancing Bystander Reporting to Prevent Terrorism

This Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) First Responders Toolkit product provides best practices to first responders on encouraging bystander reporting to improve terrorism prevention.

The Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) is a collaboration by NCTC, DHS, FBI, state, local, tribal, and territorial government personnel to improve information sharing and enhance public safety. The First Responder's Toolbox is an ad hoc, unclassified reference aid intended to promote counterterrorism coordination among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government authorities and partnerships with private sector officials in deterring, preventing, disrupting, and responding to terrorist attacks.

(September 2024)

First Responder's Toolbox: Threat Assessment and Threat Management (TATM) Model

This National Counterterrorism Center (NTCT) Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) resource highlights the threat assessment and threat management (TATM) model used to evaluate potential threats and mitigate radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization to violent extremism.

The Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) is a collaboration by NCTC, DHS, FBI, state, local, tribal, and territorial government personnel to improve information sharing and enhance public safety. The First Responder's Toolbox is an ad hoc, unclassified reference aid intended to promote counterterrorism coordination among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government authorities and partnerships with private sector officials in deterring, preventing, disrupting, and responding to terrorist attacks.

(March 2024)

Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model: An Operational Guide for Preventing Targeted School Violence

This operational guide was developed to provide fundamental direction on how to prevent incidents of targeted school violence, that is, when a student specifically selects a school or a member of the school community for harm. The content in this guide is based on information developed by the U.S. Secret Service, Protective Intelligence and Assessment Division, National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC). (July 2018)

Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence

Ensuring the safety of children at school is a responsibility that belongs to everyone, including law enforcement, school staff, mental health practitioners, government officials, and members of the general public. To aid in these efforts, the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) studied 41 incidents of targeted school violence that occurred at K-12 schools in the United States from 2008 to 2017. This report builds on 20 years of NTAC research and guidance in the field of threat assessment by offering an in-depth analysis of the motives, behaviors, and situational factors of the attackers, as well as the tactics, resolutions, and other operationally-relevant details of the attacks. (November 2019)