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• 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. <br />51 <br />