Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives (PREVAYL 2.0)
🏛 Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC
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Can you apply?
This grant is for state, territorial, tribal, and local health departments implementing youth violence prevention programs.
Applicants must be governmental health agencies at state, territorial, tribal, or local level. Non-governmental organizations typically partner with health departments but may not be primary applicants.
The grant funds multiyear comprehensive prevention strategies addressing interpersonal violence, teen dating violence, bullying, community violence, online violence, and adverse childhood experiences. Programs must use evidence-based approaches and partner across sectors to reach adolescents and young adults.
Geographic scope is national, including all U.S. states, territories, and tribal lands. Applicants develop data-driven evaluation plans and demonstrate capacity to implement sustainable prevention initiatives.
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Key dates
- Aug 17, 2026 Applications open
- May 3, 2027 Application deadline in 196 days
- Jul 26, 2027 Award announced
- Sep 1, 2027 Project start
Program description
The purpose of this NOFO is to provide multiyear funding to state, territorial, tribal, and local health departments to implement and evaluate comprehensive primary prevention strategies that prevent multiple forms of violence and promote healthy development among adolescents and young adults. Building on the prior PREVAYL cooperative agreement, this NOFO emphasizes:
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Improving data-driven decision-making, including surveillance, data linkage, and use of real-time data for prevention, evaluation and implementation science
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Building capacity and strengthening implementation and reach of evidence-based prevention strategies that address shared risk and protective factors
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Advancing whole-child and whole-community violence prevention approaches that integrate youth mental health and family support strategies
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Engaging in strategic collaboration through multisector partnerships to facilitate youth engagement, and build and support a skilled violence prevention workforce
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Prioritizing primary prevention of multiple forms of violence impacting youth including interpersonal violence, intimate partner/teen dating violence, bullying, community-based violence, online/technology-facilitated violence, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Who can apply
Eligible applicants
Demographic focus
How to apply
Application links
Key dates & requirements
Required documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- Project Narrative (Program plan, prevention strategies, evaluation design)
- Budget and Budget Justification
- Organizational capacity documentation
- Letters of commitment from partner organizations
- Evaluation plan with data sources and timeline
- Data sharing/surveillance agreements (if applicable)
Program contact
- 👤 Ayana Stanley
- 📧 ing9@cdc.gov
- 📞 770-488-3906
Funding track record
Recent awards under CFDA 93.136 from the last 3 years — real organizations that won funding through this same program.
Top 10 Largest Recent Awards
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$51,950,000
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$31,738,059
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$30,693,766
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$28,222,200
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$26,704,737
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$26,450,431
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$26,071,385
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$26,070,052
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$25,767,710
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$24,290,102
Top States by Funding
- GA 6 awards $117.9M
- FL 7 awards $108.2M
- OH 6 awards $106.7M
- PA 5 awards $85.9M
- CA 5 awards $74.9M
Source: USAspending.gov — federal spending transparency. Data covers last 3 years.
Funding history
Annual funding for this program — Federal obligations (CFDA 93.136). How funding has trended year over year.
| 2024 | $456,943,397 | |
| 2025 | $458,397,564 | |
| 2026 est. | $458,397,564 |
FAQ
Who can apply for PREVAYL 2.0?
State, territorial, tribal, and local health departments are eligible. Non-governmental organizations cannot be primary applicants but may serve as partners.
What types of violence does this grant address?
The program covers interpersonal violence, intimate partner/teen dating violence, bullying, community-based violence, online/technology-facilitated violence, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
Is cost-sharing required?
No. Cost-sharing is not required for this cooperative agreement.
What is the funding level?
Awards are fixed at $450,000 per applicant, with approximately 5 awards available from the $2.25 million total funding pool.
When is the deadline?
The application deadline is May 3, 2027. This is a fixed deadline with no rolling review.
💡 Tips for applicants
- Start with your health department's existing violence surveillance data and prevention programs. Use these as your foundation for demonstrating readiness.
- Emphasize data-driven approaches. Describe how you'll use real-time data, surveillance linkages, and implementation science to guide prevention activities.
- Build multisector partnerships early. Document commitments from schools, community organizations, youth-serving agencies, and other key stakeholders.
- Address youth mental health and family support integration. These are priority emphases in this funding cycle and strengthen applications.
- Plan for evaluation from the start. Include clear metrics, evaluation methods, and dissemination strategies for sharing findings with partners and communities.
⚠️ Common mistakes
Weak partnerships. Applicants who list partners without documented commitment letters or specific collaboration plans rarely succeed.
Unfocused scope. Trying to address all violence types equally instead of prioritizing 2-3 forms relevant to your data and community context.
Insufficient evaluation. Proposals lacking specific, measurable outcomes or realistic timelines for data collection and analysis tend to score lower.
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