The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance our understanding about what works to prevent violence that impacts children and youth, collectively referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and what works to effectively implement ACEs prevention strategies.
Donor Name: Centers for Disease Control
Country: United States
State: All States
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 01/24/2022
Size of the Grant: $400,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
This initiative is intended to support evaluation and implementation research studies on primary prevention programs, practices or policies with universal or selected (i.e., have one or more risk factors that place them at heightened risk for violence) populations. Funds are available to conduct such studies focused on preventing child abuse and neglect and at least one other form of violence affecting children and youth, including teen dating violence, sexual violence, youth violence, and exposure to adult intimate partner violence.
The Primary outcomes we wish to achieve with this initiative are:
- Objective One: Effectiveness research to evaluate primary prevention strategies that improve the social or structural conditions that contribute to health inequities across population groups and are empirically or theoretically associated with child abuse and neglect or other forms of violence affecting children and youth.
- Objective Two: Effectiveness research to evaluate primary prevention strategies that enhance protective factors to reduce violence against children or within families.
- Objective Three: Effectiveness research to evaluate primary prevention strategies that incorporate a dual-generation approach for caregivers and their children that breaks the cycle of violence and adversity.
- Objective Four: Implementation research to study factors that influence effective implementation of primary ACEs prevention strategies that are based on the best available evidence.
Award Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $14,400,000
- Award Ceiling: $400,000 Per Budget Period
- Total Period of Performance Length: 3 year(s)
Target Population
Applicants should focus on populations at highest risk for experiencing community violence. Community violence affects people across the lifespan and in all communities. However, some subgroups are at substantially greater risk. For example, homicide is a leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults and young people are disproportionately impacted by nonfatal community violence. Risk for community violence, and opportunities for prevention, start in childhood. People’s health outcomes are influenced by the conditions in which they live, work, play, and learn. These conditions are called social determinants of health. Systemic racism, bias, and discrimination; economic instability; concentrated poverty; and limited housing, education, and healthcare access drive health inequities, such as violence. Racial/ethnic minority groups and communities often disproportionately experience these negative conditions, placing residents at greater risk for poor health outcomes. For example, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaskan Native, and Hispanic or Latino persons have higher homicide rates than other racial and ethnic demographic groups. This initiative is intended to support effectiveness research to expand and advance understanding of approaches to prevent community violence and reduce racial and ethnic inequities in risk for community violence. Funds are available to conduct studies focused on preventing all forms of community violence involving youth or young adults (ages 10-34 years), including assaults, homicides, violence between groups, and threats/use of weapons. When feasible, applicants are encouraged to address other populations at high risk for experiencing community violence, including, but not limited to, people with disabilities, sexual and gender minorities, individuals returning home after incarceration, commercial sex workers, and individuals experiencing homelessness who live in areas with high rates of social disadvantage.
Eligible Applicants
- Eligibility Category:
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- Special district government
- City or township governments
- County governments
- State governments
- Additional Eligibility Category:
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for CDC support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
- Nonprofits (Other than Institutions of Higher Education):
- Nonprofits (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Other:
- Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
- Regional Organizations
- The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for CDC support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
Bona Fide Agents: A Bona Fide Agent is an agency/organization identified by the state as eligible to submit an application under the state eligibility in lieu of a state application. If applying as a bona fide agent of a state or local government, a legal, binding agreement from the state or local government as documentation of the status is required.
Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): FFRDCs are operated, managed, and/or administered by a university or consortium of universities, other not-for-profit or nonprofit organization, or an industrial firm, as an autonomous organization or as an identifiable separate operating unit of a parent organization. A FFRDC meets some special longterm research or development need which cannot be met as effectively by an agency’s existing in-house or contractor resources. FFRDC’s enable agencies to use private sector resources to accomplish tasks that are integral to the mission and operation of the sponsoring agency.
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