@SharonHurleyHall
Welcome to the people driven part of the social Web, I hope it goes well for you.
Be interested to hear the challenges you encounter and what, if anything, was done to help.
It's worth looking at @FediTips as a good start.
Think there might be some good block lists somewhere, hopefully your server has them already implemented.
@futurebird and @mekkaokereke have been posting here for some time and will probably have good advice, also worth looking at #blackmastodon