PROTECTING YOUR OWN
Volunteer to Safeguard the Jewish Community
You can become a security volunteer at your local CSS Synagogue team or you can join a ROAM team that protects a variety of institutions and events in your region.
BECOME A CSS VOLUNTEER
Get Involved. Protect Your Community.
The Community Security Service’s professional training programs are for volunteers interested in safeguarding their Jewish communities. We teach security awareness and physical security. All programs are free and open to all community members, both affiliated and unaffiliated.
- •Learn proactive security and safety skills.
- •Train to identify potential threats.
- •Help protect the Jewish community.
A program for volunteers affiliated with a synagogue or who want to give back to the Jewish community. ROAM volunteers receive intensive training and join teams to protect Jewish events and provide additional coverage for synagogue services.
Our flagship program of standalone teams of trained security volunteers who serve shifts to protect synagogues.
Join your local CSS synagogue team and become a security volunteer.
Safeguarding the Community
Protect Your Synagogue
Complete our application to join your local CSS synagogue team and become a security volunteer.
Become a Volunteer
Intense Training Program
What Do ROAM-Trained Volunteers Do?
ROAM is a proactive volunteer security training program that empowers participants to thrive as a protector of their local Jewish community.
Join Us
Why Join ROAM?
Learn proactive security and safety skills
Become part of your local ROAM team
Help protect our Jewish community
GET INVOLVED
What is the Need for the CSS?
ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in antisemitism in the U.S.
HATE CRIMES
Hate crimes have surged. Jews in the U.S. have been victims of harassment, violence and murder.
THREATS
Threat situations have become increasingly difficult to detect and anticipate, making them a bigger challenge.
We collaborate and work side by side with multiple Jewish organizations and the law enforcement.
“We created CSS because we believed that the security of the American Jewish community is everyone’s responsibility—no matter your age, gender, politics, or observance level. Our members all serve side by side in pursuit of a single mission: to protect the lives and the way of life of all Jewish Americans. By doing so, we aim to create a culture of responsibility around security and transform the way so-called “ordinary people” can help protect themselves, their families, and their communities.”
Founders of CSS