Community Outreach
The FBI’s Community Outreach Program supports the Bureau’s investigative mission by working to address multiple interrelated societal problems—including crime, drugs, gangs, terrorism, and violence.
Linking community service, prevention, and law enforcement is a national trend spurred by grass roots efforts around the country, and FBI employees have joined this movement, volunteering in a wide variety of community-related efforts.
Denver Outreach Specialists
General Contact: DN_Outreach@fbi.gov
Social Media Outreach
FBI Denver (Facebook)
@FBIDenver (Twitter)
@miFBIDenver (Twitter)
@FBI (Instagram)
The Denver FBI offers public speakers on a limited basis on a variety of topics pertaining to the Bureau’s investigative mission. All requests for speakers must be submitted online a minimum four weeks prior to your presentation date. Requests are subject to availability.
FBI Denver offers quarterly tours for schools, student groups, and community organizations. Tours are capped at a maximum of 40 attendees and can be comprised of several smaller groups.
2025 tour date options:
- Tuesday, February 11, 2025
- 10am – 12pm
- 1pm – 3pm
- Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- 10am – 12pm
- 1pm – 3pm
- Tuesday, September 9, 2025
- 10am – 12pm
- 1pm – 3pm
- Tuesday, November 4, 2025
- 10am – 12pm
- 1pm – 3pm
The Citizens Academy is an engaging program that gives business, religious, civic, and community leaders an inside look at the FBI. Classes meet in the evening at the FBI field office. The mission of the FBI Citizens Academy is to foster a greater understanding of the role of federal law enforcement in the community through frank discussion and education.
Candidates are nominated by FBI employees, former Citizens Academy graduates, and community leaders. Participants are selected by the special agent in charge of the local FBI field office.
How to apply:
Since 1990, the Director’s Community Leadership Awards has been the principal means for the FBI to publicly recognize achievements of individuals and organizations that make extraordinary contributions to education and the prevention of crime and violence in their communities. Each field office nominates an individual or organization for the award, and, once selected, the recipients are invited to a ceremony and reception at FBI Headquarters.
Through these academies, high school and college students receive a comprehensive look into today’s FBI. Generally, each course iteration is a minimum of eight hours with blocks of instruction and demonstrations by FBI employees. Content is presented in varying mediums to include interactive learning, demonstrations, panel discussions, and educational blocks. Attendees will be introduced to FBI history, various careers, crimes investigated by the FBI, specialty teams, and awareness or case briefings. Collegiate Academy students will also practice federal resume writing and interviewing techniques.
To Apply
FBI Denver expects to host a Collegiate Academy in early September at the FBI Denver office. Please check back for the application which we hope to open in mid-March.
The Child ID app—the first mobile application created by the FBI—provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your children on your smartphone (note: no information is stored or collected by the FBI). In the event your child goes missing, users can show the pictures and provide physical identifiers such as height and weight to security or police officers on the spot. Using a special tab on the app, users can also quickly and easily e-mail the information to authorities.
The app also includes tips on keeping children safe, as well as specific guidance on what to do in those first few crucial hours after a child goes missing.
The FBI, in partnership with the DEA, created a short documentary focusing on the crisis of prescription drug and opioid abuse. The film, Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, outlines the dangerous cycle of opioid and prescription drug abuse—how the problem starts, how the addiction takes hold, and how that addiction damages one’s life and body. High school students and all ages above are the target audience for this video and the curriculum/facilitated discussion that accompanies it.
FBI-SOS is a free, fun, and informative program that promotes cyber citizenship by educating students in third to eighth grades on the essentials of online security. For teachers, the site provides a ready-made curriculum that meets state and federal Internet safety mandates, complete with online testing and a national competition to encourage learning and participation. A secure online system enables teachers to register their schools, manage their classes, automatically grade their students’ exams, and request the test scores.
Anyone—young or old, in the U.S. or worldwide—can complete the activities on the FBI-SOS website. The testing and competition, however, are only open to students in grades 3-8 at public, private, or home schools in the U.S. or its territories.
