Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP) | CDC RFA CE16 1602

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA CE16 1602

The Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP) is a CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) cooperative agreement designed to help jurisdictions reduce injuries and violence and the deaths and long-term health impacts they cause. The funding is meant to do two things at once: first, lower injury- and violence-related morbidity and mortality by strengthening prevention work that is already known to be effective; and second, make injury prevention efforts more sustainable over time so that progress does not depend on short-term projects or temporary staffing.

The program focuses on helping State Health Departments put strong, evidence-informed prevention strategies into practice, evaluate whether those strategies are working, and share results so that effective approaches can be replicated and maintained. A key feature of the opportunity is the expectation that grantees will choose and carry out programs, practices, and policies that reflect the "best available evidence." In other words, the emphasis is not simply on trying new ideas, but on implementing approaches that have credible support behind them, measuring outcomes, and using findings to improve future prevention efforts and inform partners and stakeholders.

Core SVIPP encourages applicants to approach injury and violence prevention through shared risk and protective factors. This is a practical public health framing that recognizes many types of injury and violence are influenced by overlapping drivers (such as substance misuse, community stressors, unsafe environments, or lack of protective social supports). By targeting those shared factors, states can often get broader impact from limited resources, rather than running isolated, single-issue initiatives that compete for staff time and funding.

While the program supports injury and violence prevention broadly, it requires alignment with NCIPC priority areas. The required strategy areas listed in the opportunity include child abuse and neglect, traumatic brain injury (TBI), motor vehicle crash injury and death, and intimate partner violence and sexual violence. In practice, this means funded work should connect clearly to one or more of these priorities and show how proposed activities will contribute to prevention, improved safety, reduced harm, and stronger systems for delivering prevention programs.

Eligibility is geared toward public health authorities. Eligible applicants include State Health Departments in U.S. states and certain U.S. territories and freely associated states, including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. The opportunity also allows applications from federally recognized or state-recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments. In addition, a state may designate a "bona fide agent" to apply on its behalf, meaning an agency or organization formally identified by the State Health Department as eligible to submit an application instead of the state submitting directly.

Administratively, this is a discretionary cooperative agreement (not a formula grant), indicating the CDC expects substantial involvement in program implementation, technical assistance, and oversight compared with a standard grant mechanism. The funding opportunity number is CDC RFA CE16-1602, listed under CFDA 93.136, and is categorized under health funding. The original closing date for applications was April 8, 2016, with the opportunity created on December 7, 2015. The award ceiling was $475,000, and CDC anticipated making about 20 awards, suggesting a moderately competitive national funding round aimed at supporting a set of jurisdictions to build or strengthen core injury and violence prevention capacity.

Overall, Core SVIPP is best understood as an effort to strengthen the injury and violence prevention "infrastructure" within states and eligible jurisdictions, while also driving measurable prevention outcomes in specific NCIPC priority areas. The program expects recipients to implement proven strategies, evaluate them rigorously, share lessons learned, and build lasting prevention systems that continue beyond the period of federal funding.

• The Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP)" 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 2015-12-07.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-04-08. (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 $475,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 20 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others.

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