Rapid Response

Urgent and
Emergent Incident
Response When
You Need It Most

When your safety and security needs require attention or action, contact us.

We help troubleshoot digital, organizational, electoral,  protest, event, fiscal, hate-based, and/or state violence.

We offer assessment and consultation in the following areas of focus:

  • Personal/Home Safety
  • Organizational Safety
  • Action and Event Safety
  • Digital Security
  • Internal and External Incidents or Threats

Our roster of highly experienced community safety practitioners is equipped with multiple crisis care and support tools. We bring a minimum of ten years of experience in praxis and utilize healing-centered, trauma-informed safety practices firmly rooted in anti-oppression and liberatory frameworks. We offer timely, accessible, and grounded guidance to allow you the peace of mind to strategize, pivot, and get back to work.

Use our online submission form to request support from our team. We review requests Monday–Friday from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm PST. Requests submitted outside those hours will be reviewed during the next business day.

For critical or time-sensitive requests, there is an option in the submission form to indicate high urgency. We will do our best to respond within 8–24 hours, even on weekends, when possible.
Please provide as many details as you can share, depending on the information you can access and your comfort level with disclosing specifics. The information you include allows our safety practitioners to refine recommendations and referrals for next steps.

Reach Out for
Rapid Response
What To Expect
When We Connect
With You

After carefully reviewing your request, our team will contact you to offer specific guidance and recommendations to support you. While we can’t guarantee complete mitigation of the possible threat you are facing, we can leverage our decades of experience to assist you in determining the best way to respond to your situation.

Our team of safety & security practitioners can provide:

  • Risk assessment of the incident
  • Up to three sessions of one-on-one support
  • Personalized community safety recommendations
  • Community safety referrals
  • Community safety resources
  • Follow-up after the incident
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Your assessment will include recommendations for resources, programs, and services to deepen your community safety and security practices and protocols.

VCW has numerous offerings designed to bolster safety and security in the community and Left movement actions. For the past ten years, VCW has built a robust catalog of trainings, workshops, and toolkits designed for individuals and groups seeking to upskill their community safety and security practices.

Our offerings include:

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