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Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention(TVTP)
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The TVTP Grant Program has six objectives: • The local community has awareness of the signs that someone may be escalating towards violence and of the threats of targeted violence and terrorism. • The local community has awareness of both risk factors for – and protective factors against – escalation to violence. • Members of the local community engage the broadest and most diverse set of local stakeholders, sharing resources and best practices and building trusted partnerships to address targeted violence and terrorism. •Members of the local community can act on bystander training and help individuals before they escalate to violence by understanding the role of, and the means to contact, threat assessment, and management teams. • Members of the local community have access to multi-disciplinary threat assessment and management teams comprised of individuals such as psychologists, educators, faith leaders, and medical personnel that can provide support to an individual before an act of violence takes place. • The local community has programs that address risk factors for, and strengthen protective factors against, escalation to violence, including recidivism reduction programming. Priorities: The TVTP Grant Program has five priorities: • Implementing Prevention Capabilities in Small and Mid-Sized Communities; • Advancing Equity in Awards and Engaging Underserved Communities in Prevention; • Addressing Online Aspects of Targeted Violence and Terrorism; • Preventing Domestic Violent Extremism; and • Enhancing Local Threat Assessment and Management Capabilities. Performance Measures: Performance Measures for the TVTP program are provided in the TVTPs Notice of Funding Opportunity available at grants.gov.
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Enhanced community resilience to recruitment and radicalization; Development of off-ramps for individuals who are being radicalized to violence; Creation or amplification of counter messages to the recruitment or radicalization narrative; and Effective resistance to violent extremist ideology and online recruitment efforts targeting U.S.-based individuals. Enhanced capacity of local organizations to conduct CVE activities. Increased prevention and resilience planning and prioritization from state and local governments.
Enhanced community resilience to recruitment and radicalization; Development of off-ramps for individuals who are being radicalized to violence; Creation or amplification of counter messages to the recruitment or radicalization narrative; and Effective resistance to violent extremist ideology and online recruitment efforts targeting U.S.-based individuals. Enhanced capacity of local organizations to conduct CVE activities. Increased prevention and resilience planning and prioritization from state and local governments.
Accomplishments under the program name “Countering Violent Extremism”: Data collected in these projects show increases in willingness to intervene, increases in knowledge and protective factors, and decreases in risk factors. DHS Staff have identified five models for replication based on these positive outcomes by grantees including:
This funding addressed a gap in our nation’s prevention capabilities: • Enhancing awareness to the threat of individuals mobilizing or radicalizing to violence; • Intervening with such individuals; • Developing resilience or protective factors in communities and with individuals; and • Providing alternative messages or activities that challenge violent narratives.
The grant has empowered the building of Threat Assessment Management teams in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Washington D.C., the Bay Area, Michigan, and the state of Hawaii. Moreover, under the grant, local institutions such as hospitals, universities, local non-profits and schools have developed TA capabilities to identify and respond to targeted violence and terrorism before they occur. For example, grantees coordinate information sharing and meetings between various members of the community to not only identify a potential sign of radicalization to violence, but also to determine how to best handle the case who is best to handle the
case. So far 56 cases have been referred to the appropriate TA member and 94 cases have been intervened successfully.
Furthermore, so far FY 20 and FY 21 grantees have trained more than 5,000 individuals on topics such as Targeted Violence: Community Awareness, Behavioral Analysis, and Prevention Strategies, media literacy, and youth leadership, among others.
• 109 awards have been award across the TVTP Grant Program to date (29 in FY20, 43 in FY21 and 37 in FY22) • A geographically diverse selection of grantees has been made across the FY20, FY21, and FY22 grant cycles, reaching 33 unique states and the District of Columbia. The Grant Program has also prioritized outreach efforts to underserved communities, making awards to 2 tribal government agencies, 2 HBCUs, 2 LGBTQ-serving organizations, and multiple other organizations reaching underserved communities such as rural communities • Via the FY20 Grant Program alone, over 15,000 individuals had been directly reached via grant-funded activities as of March 31, 2023
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
