Louisville, like each of the FBI’s local field offices, has a community outreach program that complements and strengthens our many efforts to protect you, your businesses, and your families in concrete ways through a range of activities and initiatives.

Our recent activities include:

• Our Citizens’ Academy brings together a cross section of approximately 26 community leaders to learn firsthand about our operations and programs, not only demystifying our work but creating new contacts and channels for working together and sharing information.
• On April 5, 2013, Director Robert Mueller presented the Director’s Community Leadership Award toMinerva Virola, a youth mentor and education advocate.

Among our other ongoing efforts:

• Meeting with minority groups and civic organizations to talk about what the FBI can do with them and for them and hosting town hall meetings as needed to dialogue on key issues;
• Sending our special agents and others from the FBI into schools, businesses, and civic meetings to explain emerging crime and security threats and to provide specific advice on how to prevent being victimized by these threats;
• Supporting the graduates of our Citizens’ Academies, who often band together in local alumni chapters to create crime prevention programs and other initiatives that benefit communities;
• Serving on committees and boards for businesses, schools, community groups, and social and health services and launching drives to bring food, gifts, and toys to the less fortunate during the holidays and other times of the year;
• Encouraging citizens to step forward to report crime and serve as witnesses in court;
• Implementing an Adopt-A-School program that put volunteer agents and staff members inside classrooms to mentor and tutor “at risk” kids; and
• Attending job fairs at local universities and venues to promote recruitment and crime awareness.