Creating Safer States by Advancing Health Equity, Injury, and Violence Prevention | CDC RFA CE 23 2308

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA CE 23 2308

Creating Safer States by Advancing Health Equity, Injury, and Violence Prevention (CDC RFA CE 23 2308) is a CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control cooperative agreement designed to reduce the massive toll that injuries and violence take in the United States. The funding notice points to the scale of the problem: in 2020 alone, nearly 278,300 people died from injuries and violence, while millions more were hospitalized or treated in emergency departments each year. Rather than funding direct services in a single jurisdiction, the core aim of this opportunity is to select one recipient organization that can strengthen the overall injury and violence prevention (IVP) infrastructure and capacity across both funded and unfunded State Health Departments (SHDs) and Local Health Departments (LHDs). In practice, that means building the systems, tools, partnerships, and know-how that health departments need to prevent injuries and violence more effectively and equitably.

The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, which typically means CDC expects substantial involvement in shaping or supporting the work over the project period (for example, through technical guidance, shared planning, or coordination expectations). The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding in the health area (CFDA 93.136). The anticipated scale is large, with an award ceiling of up to $10,000,000, and CDC expected to make one award. Applications were submitted through Grants.gov by the stated deadline in April 2023.

Eligibility is intentionally broad and essentially open to all entity types listed in the announcement, including state, county, and municipal governments; special districts; independent school districts; public and private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribes and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status; for-profit organizations; small businesses; and other applicants as clarified in the opportunity text. This open eligibility reflects that CDC is looking for the strongest national or multi-jurisdictional capacity-building operator, not necessarily a health department itself.

The work funded under this opportunity is centered on measurable improvements in the readiness and capability of SHDs and LHDs to prevent injuries and violence, particularly in ways that advance health equity. The notice highlights several intended outcomes. One major theme is improving the ability of health departments (whether currently funded for IVP or not) to identify and respond to emerging injury and violence threats, which implies stronger situational awareness, surveillance capacity, timely data use, and practical response planning. Another key theme is embedding health equity and DEBIA (diversity, equity, belonging, inclusion, and accessibility) within both organizational operations and community-facing work, signaling that the recipient should help health departments incorporate equitable processes, inclusive engagement, and culturally responsive approaches into IVP planning and implementation.

The opportunity also emphasizes expanding access to practical resources and tools that health departments can use to improve community health, suggesting products such as guidance, training, templates, toolkits, data-to-action supports, and other forms of technical assistance. Capacity building is not framed as abstract administration; it is tied directly to prevention impact, including strengthening communities by increasing protective factors for injuries and violence using the best available evidence. In other words, the recipient is expected to help health departments move upstream by supporting strategies that reduce risk and build resilience at the community level, rather than focusing only on crisis response.

A further outcome is increasing the ability of health departments to implement evidence-informed programs. This points to implementation support such as selecting interventions that fit local needs, adapting appropriately without losing effectiveness, building implementation plans, developing workforce skills, and evaluating results. Finally, the notice stresses cross-sector collaboration, aiming to increase the ability of IVP partnerships to work across systems such as SHDs and LHDs, research organizations, public health partners, and other sectors that influence injury and violence trends. Taken together, the grant is essentially about creating a stronger national support structure so more health departments can detect emerging IVP issues sooner, respond more effectively, implement proven approaches, and do so in ways that reduce inequities and reach communities that have historically been underserved.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Creating Safer States by Advancing Health Equity, Injury, and Violence Prevention" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.136.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 15, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 12, 2023 4/17/2023. Applications are due on the listed application due date at 1159PM ET.#160#160Applicants will use a Grants.gov platform to submit their applications.#160. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $10,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification), Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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