DeSales Media brings the security expertise of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Community Security Initiative to conduct on-site threat assessments of Catholic schools and academies. Done so at no cost to the site that benefits from it, these assessments identify vulnerabilities and develop tailored safety plans for individual locations. These can be used to form the basis of applications for nonprofit security grants, which have brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars for schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn that have been used to enhance the physical security of the schools.

At the request of schools and parishes, External Affairs also regularly engages with local police precincts as a liaison in sensitive and emergency situations.

Congresswoman Grace Meng with Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament