Preventing Targeted and Hate-Fueled Violence
The Prevention Practitioners Network (PPN) is a national network of over 2,100 interdisciplinary professionals working to prevent targeted and hate-fueled violence using a public health approach. PPN is comprised of frontline professionals including mental and behavioral health clinicians, behavioral threat assessors, community safety and crisis response personnel, educators, law enforcement, public health and safety administrators, nonprofit leaders, and anyone else providing direct services to prevent targeted violence.
PPN provides technical assistance for state and local agencies developing their programs, establishing new relationships and referral systems with local community partners and services, or providing relevant training materials for their staff. Through formal trainings, workshops, publications and practice guides, and facilitating learning communities for practitioners, PPN helps professionals develop the core competencies to work with individuals at risk for targeted violence. PPN also advises state and local agencies building their own capacity to prevent targeted violence prevention and build resilience in their localities.
What We Do
- Conduct capacity-building workshops on topics such as nihilistic violent extremism, referring building multidisciplinary teams, information sharing, and behavioral threat assessment and management
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Provide trainings and publish practice guides for frontline professionals across disciplines
- Host the Reach Out Resource Hub, a national directory of prevention service providers, mental and behavioral health clinicians, and survivor support services
- Raise public awareness through national bystander campaigns
- Facilitate case consultations for clinicians with complex cases
- Share the latest research
Upcoming Training
Aligning Research to Practice: Research Gaps to Inform Prevention
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT
Zoom meeting
This workshop equips U.S.-based practitioners with the knowledge and tools to address the emerging threat of online nihilistic violence networks such as 764, the Com, and the True Crime Community. These loosely organized groups exploit gaming platforms, social media, and chat forums to groom and radicalize teens and minors, often using coercion, sextortion, and encouragement of self-harm and violence. Participants will learn how to recognize warning signs, understand pathways into these networks, and intervene with individuals who are at risk or already involved. The training emphasizes treatment and management strategies, including family engagement, addressing vulnerabilities such as suicidality and eating disorders, and working with mandatory or court-ordered clients. The workshop is designed for mental and behavioral health professionals, law enforcement, educators, and members of the legal system, and all practitioners committed to preventing targeted violence are encouraged to attend.
Prevention in Practice Learning Community
In partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital, the PPLC serves as a community of licensed mental and behavioral health providers who want to learn from one another through case studies, discussion, and consultation.
The PPLC aims to provide clinical practitioners with strategies for working with adolescents and adults at risk for violence due to grievances and/or beliefs. This may include individuals in the early stages of contemplating or justifying violence; individuals who are more seriously engaged with violent groups or ideologies; or individuals who have already been criminally charged for threatening or committing an act of violence. We welcome practitioners from a range of practice settings and particularly encourage practitioners with experience in working with high-risk patients.
Since March 2024, the PPLC has conducted 20 case consultation calls and knowledge-sharing webinars and has welcomed 121 licensed practitioners as participants.
If you are a clinically licensed practitioner and would like to join the PPLC, please email Neil Saul at nsaul@eradicatehatesummit.org.
Join Us
Join the Prevention Practitioners Network to stay updated on upcoming trainings and workshops, receive the latest research publications on targeted violence prevention, and collaborate with practitioners across the United States.
Additionally, we encourage all organizations, local agencies, and service providers who are working with at-risk populations to join the Reach Out Resource Hub. This Resource Hub allows community members, family, friends, and individuals to find local, tailored services and professionals to help them and their loved ones if they are concerned that someone may be at risk of committing an act of targeted violence. The Resource Hub includes nonprofit organizations, state and local agencies, licensed mental health providers, social workers, educators, law enforcement officers and intervention teams, academics, and anyone else working in the community or providing relevant services to those at risk and the communities surrounding them.