Hate-motivated Mass Violence Crimes: Addressing Victim, Survivor & Community Impact

February 23, 2023

This Fifth Virtual National Town Hall on Mass Violence was hosted by the National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center and the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime.

 

Tip Sheets

NMVVRC

• Resilience Following Hate Crimes: Information and Tips
• Talking to Children About Hate Crimes

NCTSN

• Talking to Children about Hate Crimes and Antisemitism
• Talking with Your Children about Islamophobia and hate-based violence

 

Other resources on impact of hate-based trauma

• Mental Health America, Racial Trauma
• National Center for PTSD, Racial Trauma
• Tribal Resource Tool, tribalresourcetool.org
• American Medical Association, Collective Trauma Toolkit: Responding Effectively as an Organization
• Office of Victims of Crime, Helping Victims of Mass Violence Terrorism: Recovery Video
• MVP Podcast (NMVVRC): Hate crimes and mass violence
• MVP Podcast (NMVVRC): Incorporating cultural awareness and mental health care for mass violence survivors

 

Federal Resources

• Department of Justice: Hate Crimes Resources / Hate Crimes Resources en Español
• Department of Justice: Community Relations Services
• Office for Victims of Crime: Hate Crimes
• Office for Victims of Crime: Office for Victims of Crime Responds to Hate Crimes
• Bureau of Justice Statistics: Bias-Motivated/Hate Crime
• FBI: Report Hate Crimes
• FBI: Hate Crime Statistics
• Bureau of Justice Statistics: Hate Crime Victimization, 2005–2019
• Department of Health and Human Services: Protecting the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Intersex (LGBTQI) Individuals
• The White House, United We Stand Summit Engagement Toolkit (pdf) (Sep. 15, 2022)
• The White House, United We Stand Summit Fact Sheet (Sep. 15, 2022)

 

Example mental health response to a hate-based mass violence incident:

“It Takes a Village: The Immediate Mental Health Response to the Oak Creek Sikh Temple Shootings, Part 1 of 2” Dr. Puni Kalra May 6, 2013

1. https://chaicounselors.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/it-takes-a-village-the-immediate-mental-health-response-to-the-oak-creek-sikh-temple-shootings-part-1-of-2/
2. https://chaicounselors.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/connection-the-heart-of-the-sikh-brother-sikh-sister-mentorship-program-part-2-of-2/

Kalra, P. (2023). Implications of Immigration, Racism, and the Current Socio-Political Climate. In U. Thakore-Dunlap, D. Srivastava, & N. Tewari (Eds,). Counseling and Psychotherapy for South Asian Americans Routledge, New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003081548