Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives (PREVAYL 2.0)
Forecasted
This grant funds health departments to implement and evaluate strategies that prevent multiple types of youth violence and promote healthy adolescent development using data-driven, community-based, and collaborative approaches.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Full application deadline, projected)
Funding Amounts: $450,000 per award (ceiling and floor); approx. 10 awards; total program funding $2,250,000; multi-year cooperative agreement
Summary: Supports state, local, and tribal health departments to implement and evaluate comprehensive primary prevention strategies to prevent multiple forms of youth violence and promote healthy adolescent development.
Description
This upcoming cooperative agreement opportunity from the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) aims to provide multi-year funding to state, territorial, tribal, and local health departments. The goal is to implement and evaluate comprehensive primary prevention strategies that prevent multiple forms of violence and foster healthy development among adolescents and young adults. The program builds on the previous PREVAYL initiative and emphasizes:
- Improving data-driven decision-making, including surveillance, data linkage, and real-time data use for prevention, evaluation, and implementation science
- Strengthening capacity and reach of evidence-based prevention strategies addressing shared risk and protective factors
- Advancing whole-child and whole-community violence prevention approaches, integrating youth mental health and family support
- Strategic collaboration through multisector partnerships to facilitate youth engagement and build a skilled violence prevention workforce
- Prioritizing the primary prevention of multiple forms of violence impacting youth, including interpersonal violence, intimate partner/teen dating violence, bullying, community-based violence, online/technology-facilitated violence, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
