How to Register:
https://train.ncbrt.lsu.edu/Student/Register?ClassID=30865
Access Code: VTT409
Course will be delivered virtually utilizing Zoom Meeting platform.
Once your registration is complete, you will receive an email confirmation. This email will contain your registration Confirmation Number. Make sure to have this information available to you in class. You will need this to complete the online post-test and class evaluation.
As soon as you complete registration, you will see a link "Begin Class Pre-Test". Click on this link to access the class pre-test. A completed pre-test is required in order to later take the post-test and receive class credit.
Course Summary
Recognizing and Identifying Domestic and Homegrown Violent Extremism is an awareness-level course that explores violent extremism in the United States. By the end of the course, participants will be able to identify, assess, and counter the threat of violent extremism.
As the incidence of domestic and homegrown violent extremism rises, it is critical for all first responders to recognize the ideology and indicators of violent extremism. Some expressions of violent extremism could be constitutionally protected, including speech and actions. Responders must be aware of and actively seek to protect these rights while protecting themselves and the communities they serve. Reasonable suspicion exists when there are facts to support a reasonable possibility that an individual or organization is involved in a definable criminal activity.
This course describes the radicalization and recruitment process and the tactics that extremists use to carry out their missions. Participants will consider their own jurisdiction’s baseline activity and how activity outside of baseline patterns could indicate violent extremist activity.
Participants will explore several approaches to responder safety: tactics, coordination across response disciplines, online security, and resources to support mental health. Communication across response agencies strengthens prevention and response efforts. Additionally, communication and outreach between responders and the communities they serve builds trust that can help law enforcement gather information that could prevent attacks and make communities less susceptible to violent extremist attacks.
Target Audience
The target audience for this course is state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers, including front line officers, analysts, correctional officers, campus police, including school resource officers, higher education officers, and school district officers; other first responders including fire services and emergency medical services, particularly those assigned to a fusion center, joint terrorism task force, threat assessment center, or as terrorism liaison officers; and private security personnel.
All participants are required to have a FEMA SID prior to enrolling in this training. Please visit cdp.dhs.gov/femasid for more information
