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51 <br />•Training objectives should be clearly defined to meet specific CVE goals, such as community <br />engagement, cultural awareness, community-based policing, etc.; <br />•Engaging diverse American communities around CVE may require working with local grassroots <br />community organizations to develop engagement and outreach initiatives; <br />•Training programs should be sensitive to Constitutional values, such as protecting fundamental <br />civil rights and civil liberties, and eschew notions of racial and ethnic profiling; <br />•It may be necessary to conduct vetting procedures for self-selected CVE training experts who <br />offer programs that may claim to address CVE, but serve to demonize certain individuals or <br />whole cross sections of a community; <br />•Training programs must ensure that the clearly defined objectives are in line with DHS strategies <br />to counter violent extremism; <br />•It may be necessary to provide a review process to determine if CVE training focuses on <br />community engagement and outreach; <br />•Support may be needed for law enforcement to increase knowledge, skills, and abilities to <br />increase engagement techniques with diverse American communities; and <br />•Cultural awareness courses of diverse American communities may be necessary to ensure <br />stakeholders are taught to work with communities and build trust, rather than feed existing <br />misconceptions and stereotypes of people, culture, or religion.