Toolkits, Guides, and How-tos

People who work with youth outside of the classroom provide an important link between children and their parents and caregivers. Coaches, youth group leaders, and mentors occupy a unique position of trust and responsibility in the development of young people’s character and role in the community. This supplement to the Parents & Caregivers Guide offers youth workers…

There are few established approaches to treating extremism from a mental health perspective. This short supplement to the Parents & Caregivers Guide presents strategies for mental health workers to address radicalization in their practice. By drawing on established treatments for other maladaptive behaviors, and from the empirical literature of radicalization, it offers mental health practitioners…

It isn’t enough to widely distribute resources like the Parents & Caregivers Guide and the Building Networks Guide. They must also be shown to work, to improve the ability of parents and caregivers; coaches and mentors; school counselors and mental health practitioners to spot and intervene in cases of potential radicalization. PERIL and SPLC are…

Educators have a unique role to play in recognizing, preventing, and intervening in radicalization to violent extremism. And yet, they are also some of the most under-resourced workers facing these problems. This short guide for educators supplements the Parents & Caregivers Guide to offer strategies specifically tailored for the needs of those working in classrooms—both…

It can be all too easy for people to become radicalized without even leaving home. The proliferation of extremist spaces and content online has created new and powerful avenues for radicalization, especially for young people who are often the targets of radical-right propaganda. That’s why, in partnership with American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and…

SPLC and the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) are committed to providing resources to the people building community resilience against extremism and for a more just and inclusive society. The following resources are intended to provide community- and victim-centered strategies to address the threat of extremism through early prevention and non-carceral solutions.…