Hate Crime
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Hate Crime - Training and Technical Assistance

The following training and technical assistance opportunities are a sample of those available through nationally recognized agencies and associations.

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Law Enforcement Agency Resource Network (LEARN)
Designed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), LEARN provides customized training on hate crimes, extremism and terrorist threats to law enforcement personnel. LEARN also maintains a Hate Symbols Database, a visual database of extremist symbols, logos, and tattoos.

Bureau of Justice Assistance
The Bureau of Justice Assistance provides funding to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, CA, to design training to help law enforcement jurisdictions around the country better address hate crimes. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is offering specially designed four-day institutes that use the unique interactive resources of the Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance. The specific goal of this project is to help law enforcement professionals collaboratively formulate strategic approaches to combat hate crimes based on an increased understanding of the unique elements that differentiate them from other acts of violence.

National Bias Crimes Training For Law Enforcement and Victim Assistance Professionals
(Full text not available. For an overview of the publication and ordering information, visit the above Web site. Limited quantities available.)
The Office for Victims of Crime, with the assistance of a national panel of experts, the Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), and the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council, carried out a complete review of existing hate crime materials and programs. They present this user-friendly guide as a curriculum for both victim assistance and law enforcement professionals.

Racial and Religious Violence and Harassment
With a grant from the Ford Foundation, the National Organization for Black Law Enforcement Executives has drafted a training program for law enforcement personnel on racial violence and developed a training curriculum to deal with cultural clashes on college campuses. The curriculum is designed to sensitize college administrators, students, and law enforcement personnel to the issue of racism.

Responding to Hate Crimes
The Community Relations Service, a unique agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, is the Federal government’s "peacemaker" for community-wide conflicts and tensions arising from disputes based on race, color, and national origin. CRS can assist local officials and community leaders with developing and implementing policies, practices, and procedures to respond to hate crimes and garner the support of residents and public and private organizations to ease tensions and help end conflicts. CRS can also help local law enforcement agencies create hate crime units to prevent, investigate, and prosecute hate crimes.

Southern Poverty Law Center Online Hate Crime Training
In 2001 an online course on how to recognize and respond to hate crimes was created through a partnership between the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), and an area university.  Today, the quarterly course continues through a relationship with California State University, San Bernardino and its Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

Stop the Hate - Train the Trainer Program
This program supports colleges and universities in preventing and combating bias and hate crimes on campus. The Stop The Hate Program allows top administrators, student affairs professionals, faculty and students to learn new innovative tools to take action on hate crimes and bias-motivated violence issues on his/her campus and region.

Tools for Teachers: Responding to Hate-Motivated Behaviors in Schools
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) provides this guide for teachers to help students learn to recognize and address bias-related incidents. This tool defines hate crimes and incidents, provides planning and response strategies, and includes factors in identifying acts as bias related. This guide includes many lesson plans, teaching tips, and various resources from ADL with pricing information.

Teaching Tolerance
In response to an alarming increase in hate crime among youth, the Southern Poverty Law Center began the Teaching Tolerance project in 1991 as an extension of the Center's legal and educational efforts. Teaching Tolerance offers free or low-cost resources to educators at all levels.

A World of Difference Institute
The Anti-Defamation League offers specially designed training programs for law enforcement professionals. These programs help develop awareness and skills for working within a highly pluralistic society; identify and report hate crimes; examine how antibias skills affect law enforcement work, especially regarding hate crimes; and examine appropriate responses to on-the-job situations, using case studies and large and small discussion groups.

The Justice Events calendar offers a comprehensive list of conferences, workshops, seminars, and other events.

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