RFA-CE-22-004

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CDC funded four research awards under RFA-CE-22-004: Research Grants to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries.

RFA-CE-22-004: Research grants to prevent firearm-related violence and injuries

The intent of this initiative is to support research to improve understanding of firearm injury, inform the development of innovative and promising prevention strategies, and rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of strategies to keep individuals, families, schools, and communities safe from firearm-related injuries, deaths, and crime.

RFA-CE-22-004 is intended to directly support activities under one or both of the following research objectives:

  • Objective one: Research to improve understanding of firearm injury and inform the development of innovative and promising prevention strategies.
  • Objective two: Research to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of innovative and promising strategies to keep individuals, families, schools, and communities safe from firearm-related injuries, deaths, and crime.

Developing and evaluating an extreme risk protection order implementation protocol with impacted communities

  • Three-year project: September 30, 2022-September 29, 2025
  • Principal investigator: Shannon Frattaroli, Johns Hopkins University
  • First-year award: $643,055

This study will develop and pilot test implementation guidance for law enforcement agencies using Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws.

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Preventing firearm access by those at significant risk of violence is a strategy used to help prevent firearm homicide, firearm suicide, and nonfatal firearm violence. Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) laws provide a civil court option for temporarily removing firearms from, and preventing purchase by, high-risk individuals. A key question is how law enforcement agencies can best implement existing ERPO laws. This project will develop and pilot test ERPO implementation guidelines using community-based participatory research with a focus on communities that experience high rates of firearm violence. See updates.

Understanding personal, social network, and neighborhood environmental contributors to firearm access and violence among young adults experiencing homelessness

  • Three-year project: September 30, 2022 – September 29, 2025
  • Principal investigator: Hsun-ta Hsu, University of Missouri – Columbia
  • First-year award: $597,148

This study will investigate how individual, social network, and neighborhood environmental characteristics are associated with firearm risks for youth experiencing homelessness and examine the role their social network may play in moderating these risks.

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Youth experiencing homelessness are especially vulnerable to firearm violence and often have access to firearms. This project will use data from face-to-face structured interviews with youth experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County, California, and the greater St. Louis, Missouri area. The study investigates how individuals, social networks, and neighborhood environmental characteristics are associated with firearm risks for youth experiencing homelessness and examines the role their social network may play in moderating these risks. Understanding firearm risks among youth experiencing homelessness will provide critical information to inform innovative interventions to help keep youth experiencing homelessness safe from firearm-related injuries, death, and crime. See updates.


Optimizing firearm suicide prevention in healthcare

  • Three-year project: September 30, 2022 – September 29, 2025
  • Principal investigator: Julie Richards, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (KFH)
  • First-year award: $649,586

This study will examine patient-centered strategies in healthcare settings to identify and engage patients at high risk of firearm suicide and pilot test intervention strategies.

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Firearms are the most common method of suicide in the United States. Most people who die by suicide see a health care provider sometime in the year prior to death, giving clinical providers important opportunities to intervene with patients at risk for firearm suicide. There is little evidence available to guide implementation of promising clinical practices for firearm suicide prevention. This study will elicit patient, clinician, and leader perspectives on clinical practices for identifying and engaging individuals at risk of firearm suicide, identify opportunities for practice improvement, and pilot test intervention strategies in three healthcare systems. The results will fill the critical need for patient-centered strategies to identify and engage patients at high risk of firearm suicide. See updates.

Firearm violence perpetration: a nationally representative multi-wave survey of youth and young adults across the United States

  • Three-year project: September 30, 2022 – September 29, 2025
  • Principal investigator: Bruce Taylor, National Opinion Research Center
    First-year award: $649,979

This study will survey youth and young adults to identify risk and protective factors associated with firearm violence.

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In this project, researchers will conduct a nationally representative three-wave longitudinal survey of 2,750 youth and young adults ages 10-34 to identify risk and protective factors associated with firearm violence in the U.S., including witnessing violence, gun carrying, perpetration, and victimization. By enhancing understanding of the individual, family, peer, school/work, community contexts, and bystander behaviors associated with firearm violence, the results will inform the development of prevention and intervention efforts that are applicable to a broad range of youth and young adults as well as those at high risk for firearm violence exposure. See updates.
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