Funded Programs and Activities

Impact

• 66 jurisdictions are advancing opioid overdose surveillance to inform prevention and response efforts.
• 22 jurisdictions are addressing the impact of COVID-19 on suicide and adverse childhood experiences.
• 52 jurisdictions are collecting data on violent deaths to understand and prevent them.

Strategic plan

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Initiatives

Protecting youth

• Essentials for Childhood: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action funds recipients to prevent adverse childhood experiences and promote positive childhood experiences.
• The Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives program works to address multiple forms of violence impacting adolescents and young adults in communities with high rates of violence.
• National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention are academic-community collaborations that advance the science and practice of youth violence prevention.

Preventing suicide

• The Comprehensive Suicide Prevention program helps recipients implement and evaluate a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention.
• The Emergency Department Surveillance of Nonfatal Suicide-Related Outcomes cooperative agreement helps states increase the timeliness of surveillance data and self-harm injuries.
• Through the Tribal Suicide Prevention program, CDC works with tribes to reduce risk and increase protective factors to prevent suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives
• The Veteran Suicide Prevention program provides funds to veteran serving organizations to evaluate suicide prevention activities using CDC's Evaluation Framework to reduce and prevent suicide.

Preventing overdose

• The Drug-Free Communities support program is the nation's leading effort to mobilize communities to prevent and reduce substance use among youth.
• Overdose Data to Action supports jurisdictions in collecting high quality, comprehensive, and timely data on nonfatal and fatal overdoses and in using those data to inform prevention and response efforts.
• CDC builds Partnerships Between Public Health and Public Safety through public health and public safety collaborations to strengthen and improve efforts to reduce drug overdoses.

Promoting healthy relationships

• The Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances Impact program works to decrease risk factors in communities that may lead to intimate partner violence and to increase protective factors that prevent it.
• The Rape Prevention and Education Program works to prevent sexual violence by providing funding to state and territorial health departments in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Surveillance programs

• The Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology System leverages two emergency department visit data sources to more quickly identify, track, and respond to changes in drug overdose trends.
• Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms recipients focus on improving the timeliness of surveillance of Emergency Department visits for nonfatal firearm injuries.
• The National Violent Death Reporting System links information about the "who, when, where, and how" from data on violent deaths and provides insights about "why" they occurred.

Cross-cutting prevention programs

• The Core State Injury Prevention Program supports health department infrastructure, data, and partnerships to identify and respond to existing and emerging injury threats.
• Injury Control Research Centers study ways to prevent injuries and violence and to work with community partners to put research findings into action.
• Tribal Violence and Injury Prevention works with Tribal communities to prevent injuries, the leading cause of death for American Indians and Alaska Natives between the ages of one and 54.

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