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Panelists urge youth‑centered prevention, multidisciplinary threat assessments to curb online radicalization
Summary
Panelists from Eradicate Hate, Boston Children's Hospital and the state school safety center said multidisciplinary teams, youth leadership and community belonging are essential to prevent youth participation in violent online communities; experts warned threat assessments must avoid biased profiling.
A panel of prevention and clinical experts told the task force that youth‑centered, multidisciplinary approaches can reduce the risk that vulnerable children are recruited into online communities that promote violence.
Brett Steele, president of Eradicate Hate, described the organization's Upend Hate campaign for ages 12–22 and said in one year his group trained 300 students at 10 schools in concrete intervention steps; "Those 300 youth took documented over 100 actions ... including 2 of those 300 students reported weapons on campus and averted planned school shootings," he said.
Heidi Ellis, a clinical child psychologist who directs the Trauma…
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