CRS works with community groups to resolve community conflicts and prevent and respond to alleged hate crimes arising from differences of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. CRS was established by Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its mandate was expanded by the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.
CRS supports communities across the United States and its territories as they respond to race-based tension and conflict.
CRS supports communities that experience tension and conflict related to actual or perceived color
National origin-based bias is discrimination based on a person’s actual or perceived country or region of origin, ethnicity, or accent.
CRS works with communities to prevent and respond to alleged hate crimes based on gender.
CRS works with communities to prevent and respond to alleged hate crimes based on actual or perceived gender identity.
CRS works with communities to prevent and respond to alleged hate crimes based on actual or perceived sexual orientation.
CRS works with communities responding to tension and conflict based on disability.