Deadline- 24 June 2013
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is inviting applications for Youth Violence Training and Technical Assistance Program. The goal of this program is to prevent youth violence and also to develop safe and healthy youth who can achieve their full potential as connected and contributing members of thriving, violence-free families, schools, and communities.
Objectives-
- build local health department infrastructure to prevent youth violence;
- implement or plan to implement strategies based upon the best available evidence to prevent young people from dying or being hurt.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Nonprofit with 501 (c) 3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
- Nonprofit without 501(c) 3 IRS status (other than institution of higher education)
- For-profit organizations (other than small business)
- Small, minority, and women-owned businesses
- Universities
- Colleges
- Research institutions (that will perform activities deemed as non-research)
- Hospitals
- Community-based organizations
- Faith-based organizations
- Federally recognized or state-recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments
- American Indian/Alaska native tribally designated organizations
- Alaska Native health corporations
- Urban Indian health organizations
- Tribal epidemiology centers
- State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau)
- The applicant should have prior experience providing technical assistance and training to communities to build local infrastructure and leadership to prevent youth violence or another health issue and to implement strategies to prevent youth violence based upon the best available evidence.
For more information, visit grants.gov and search by funding opportunity number.CDC-RFA-CE13-1305
