Working Groups & Ideation Teams from Eradicate Hate
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.
Working Groups
Survivors in Action
Hate‑fueled and targeted violence continues to inflict profound and lasting harm on survivors and victims’ families across communities in the U.S. and around the world. These acts reshape lives long after the violence ends, yet many sectors—government, nonprofit, private, and community—lack the guidance, training, or confidence needed to engage survivors in ways that are effective, trauma‑informed, and respectful. As a result, the already outsized impacts of these attacks are often compounded by inconsistent or insufficient support, underscoring the urgent need for better understanding and coordination in how we interact with those most deeply affected.
The Survivors in Action Working Group welcomes survivors and victims’ families of all acts of hate‑fueled or targeted violence around the world. It serves as a global community of mutual support, bringing members together annually at the Global Summit and through ongoing engagement throughout the year. Drawing on their lived experience, members help develop practical guidance for various sectors on how to interact effectively and respectfully with survivors and victims’ families.
Common Metrics for Practice and Policy
Understanding what truly works to prevent targeted violence is limited by the lack of common metrics, consistent data collection, and shared evaluation standards. Programs often use different definitions, goals, and outcome measures, making it difficult to compare results or identify which approaches are most effective. Although countries regularly learn from one another and adapt promising practices to their local contexts, the field lacks a unified evidence base that allows practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to assess effectiveness across settings. Developing shared metrics and evaluation frameworks is essential to building comparable evidence and strengthening prevention efforts globally.
This working group brings together experts, practitioners, and researchers from 17 countries to address this problem. Using a process designed to build consensus among subject matter experts, they have created a guidebook to align on what data to collect and how to measure it.
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.
Higher Education
Composed of leaders of the interdisciplinary field of “Hate Studies,” this working group is focused on increasing “Hate Studies” teaching and research in graduate and undergraduate programs globally, with the goal of generating new scholarship and usable theories about how hate works, and what to do about it.
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.
Download the Judicial Toolkit: Appendix
Download the Judicial Toolkit
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
Download Police Training Repository
Protecting the Protectors
Just as airline safety briefings remind us to secure our own oxygen mask before assisting others, professionals in the prevention field must prioritize their own well‑being to effectively support those they serve. This work can be emotionally taxing, physically exhausting, and at times unsafe. To sustain high‑quality practice and safeguard personal resilience, practitioners need clear guidance on where to seek support when the demands of the work become overwhelming or when they encounter situations that compromise their safety.
This working group is led by passionate cybersecurity and digital safety experts who help practitioners keep themselves, their loved ones, and their organizations safe every day. They have created a handbook to include resources and tips for practitioners on safety and well-being, digital and physical security, and measures for organizations to implement. We are now conducting virtual workshops and information sessions for practitioners, agencies, and organizations. For inquiries, please reach out to Neil Saul at nsaul@eradicatehatesummit.org.
The Reach Out Resource Hub
Targeted violence and mass attacks are preventable. A loved one often picks up on concerning behavior or hears something, but they don’t speak up. The most cited reason is that they don’t want to get their loved one in trouble. The Reach Out Resource Hub flips the script. It’s not about reporting to law enforcement, but about seeking help. The Resource Hub connects people with professionals who can help. Never worry alone.
The Reach Out Resource Hub is a national directory dedicated to providing supportive resources for bystanders, friends, loved ones, survivors, victims, and even those most at risk for committing acts of targeted and hate-fueled violence. The Resource Hub connects individuals with the most relevant and accessible resources to help keep their communities safe. These resources, organizations, and professionals recognize their role in providing wraparound services and support for those who may be at risk for targeted violence. Whether you already know what you are looking for or are searching out of concern, this directory connects you with professionals you can contact in your state or local community.
Learn more here.
We welcome all professionals working directly or indirectly to promote community safety, mental health and wellness, or crisis support to join our Resource Hub. 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 their communities providing relevant services.
Sports
Launched at the United Nations in 2019, the Sports working group’s Game Plan is a compilation of strategies that teams, leagues, players and fans can deploy to reduce hate speech in sport and in their communities. The Game Plan is currently undergoing updates with the goal of having all sports of the world participating in Game Plan violence prevention strategies by YE 2026.
Training and Career Development for Mental Health Practitioners in Targeted Violence Prevention
Mental and behavioral health professionals are a critical piece of prevention. Yet they often lack the training, tools, and confidence to take on such complex cases. Clinical and behavioral health professionals receive graduate-level training in the core competencies for preventing suicidality and homicidality but not in preventing mass-casualty attacks or targeted violence. Compounding this challenge, the research base that guides clinicians in comparable areas of practice is far less developed for targeted violence prevention, leaving professionals without clear, evidence‑informed guidance.
This ideation team bridges the gap between training and practice through the creation and adoption of graduate course curricula for students in mental health professions. We welcome mental and behavioral health practitioners who currently work with individuals at risk for targeted violence as well as academics and professors who train and supervise graduate-level students.
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
The online world is changing faster than ever, and the risks facing children and teens are growing just as quickly. Young people can encounter harmful content, online predators, hate and extremist messaging, and cyberbullying—often long before adults realize it’s happening. With new platforms and features appearing all the time, even the most tech‑savvy parents can feel unsure about how to keep kids safe.
This working group brings together experts who study these threats every day. Their goal is to create straightforward, easy‑to‑use resources for parents, educators, and the broader community. These tools explain the latest online risks, highlight warning signs that a child may be exposed to something dangerous, and—most importantly—offer guidance on how to start open, age‑appropriate conversations with kids and teens about what they’re seeing online.
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Download resources for Educators, Law Enforcement, or Youth.
Ideation Teams
Global Exit Workers
This ideation team seeks practitioners working directly with individuals exiting incarceration or leaving violent groups to help them disengage from violent behavior. They also welcome the academics who research these programs. After establishing a community of professionals involved in this work globally, this group will discuss and prioritize the most pressing challenges that they can tackle together.
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