Working Groups & Ideation Teams are Eradicate Hate’s engine of innovation, transforming ideas generated at the Global Summit into concrete deliverables that are built and tested through year-round collaboration. Following the Stages of Innovation, Ideation Teams and Working Groups support Eradicate Hate’s year-round efforts to raise awareness, build capacity, drive action, and increase sustainability.
Ideation Teams harness Eradicate Hate’s global convening power to generate novel ideas to address specific issues related to hate-fueled violence. Often focused on a specific prevention issue or sector, Ideation Teams provide a forum for leading experts and practitioners to discuss gaps in research, policy, and practice and to brainstorm solutions.
After developing a concrete Theory of Change, Ideation Teams can become Working Groups, where ideas are piloted and tested. Comprised of subject matter experts from sectors such as law enforcement, education, and mental and behavioral health, Working Groups create actionable tools, trainings, and other deliverables to further sector progress and establish best practices.
To date, Eradicate Hate’s Working Groups have produced 6 deliverables. Check out the working groups below to see their publications and current initiatives.
Survivors in Action
The Survivors in Action working group turns pain into purpose. Made up of survivors and victims’ families of acts of hate-fueled violence, working group members are developing resources for survivors on healing. Members of this working group also share their own lived experience and perspectives for other working group deliverables.
Common Metrics for Practice and Policy
This working group draws on international partners and networks across the prevention field to identify and align on common metrics to assess and strengthen programs. Our goal is to bring together practitioners, researchers, and program evaluators to help standardize data collection across public health prevention programs.
Countering the Financing of Violent Extremism
This working group is composed of specialists from U.S.-based, transatlantic and international organizations, research institutes, and private sector stakeholders and analyzes financial income streams of violent extremist networks, groups, and individuals with the aim of disrupting them. To further this aim, the working group is developing a tool kit for private sector stakeholders, including from the fiat and virtual asset industries, that will enable these to more effectively counter the misuse of their services for the financing of ideologically motivated violence.
Global Exit Workers
The Global Exit Workers Working Group is creating an overview of organizations around the world who are working to combat hate and violent extremism. Their goals are to facilitate networking and knowledge sharing among similar organizations; identify gaps and needs within the global landscape; and lay the groundwork for a sustainable model for continued collaboration.
Higher Education
Judicial Process
Pretrial and trial proceedings in high-profile, highly stressful criminal and civil cases involving hate crimes and other hate-motivated violent events present special issues for judges, attorneys, and courthouse staff. This working group compiled a judicial toolkit to provide guidance on the unique issues of case management and procedure that arise in the federal and state courts in the United States in those types of cases. The Toolkit is based on interviews of trial judges, attorneys, and victims who have participated in those types of cases. The Toolkit also presents a brief survey of applicable federal and state law. This Toolkit aims to assist judges, attorneys, and courthouse staff in preparing to handle these challenging cases fairly and efficiently.
K-12 Education
Composed of educators, community members, and subject matter experts, the K-12 working group is specifically dedicated to integrating violence prevention education into everyday school experiences. This group also leads the development of the annual Student Summit and its future replication in cities across the United States.
Law Enforcement
The Law Enforcement working group is creating a toolkit for police agencies on standards for hate crime investigations and reporting, including how to detect and identify a potential hateful motivation; what an appropriate and victim-centered police response involves and includes; and victim needs and support. They are identifying and curating information on existing hate crime police trainings to create a synthesized toolkit and comprehensive training.
Download Police Training Repository: Hate Crimes and Incidents
Protecting the Protectors
Experts in preventing hate-fueled violence face unique risks that can impact their psychological, emotional, and physical wellbeing. This working group collects and disseminates accessible content to improve the safety and security for those doing this critical work.
The Reach Out Resource Hub
The Reach Out Resource Hub provides a national, centralized database of resources and organizations that can support those impacted by hate-fueled violence or those potentially at-risk of carrying out an attack. Whether you are a friend, teacher, concerned parent, or a victim or survivor of an attack, the Resource Hub points you to helpful resources in your area and can be filtered by location, languages, specialty services, and insurance coverage. You can visit the Resource Hub here.
Sports
Training and Career Development for Mental Health Practitioners in Targeted Violence Prevention
This working group focuses on workforce development, capacity, and continuing education of the mental health field with respect to targeted violence prevention. Through workshops, trainings, and case consultations, they are building a community of practice among mental health clinicians who are dedicated to fulfilling their role in preventing all forms of targeted violence.
Video Games
The Video Games Working Group focuses on countering hate and extremism within gaming communities and on gaming platforms, through policy advice, the exchange of promising practices, and the development of novel interventions. It brings together a global team of experts on gaming harms, policy and intervention practitioners, and the gaming sector.
Youth Red Flags
This working group brings together a wide range of experts to consolidate their knowledge, data, and resources to better identify and address warning signs of radicalization to violence in youth. Outputs of the group’s efforts include trainings on the topic of youth radicalization and a collection of relevant resources for practitioners.
Download resources for Educators, Law Enforcement, or Youth.
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