Essentials for Childhood: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence Prevention

Funds 12 recipients to build adverse and positive childhood experience data infrastructure and to implement, sustain and evaluate population-level ACEs prevention strategies. Launched 2023.

Indicative award

Amount not published (varies by call)CDC's program page publishes no award amounts.

Timing

Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Program launched in 2023 with 12 recipients; builds on the earlier Essentials for Childhood and Preventing ACEs: Data to Action programs. No open application date is published on CDC's page.

Who can apply

Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner, Community organisation

Eligibility

The 12 current recipients are state health departments, a tribal nation (The Chickasaw Nation), universities (University of Nevada Reno), a public health institute and a hospital research institute, so academic and nonprofit research organisations can hold the award directly.

SSWR clusters

Topics

adverse childhood experiences · positive childhood experiences · child maltreatment prevention · surveillance infrastructure

Apply at

https://www.cdc.gov/aces/programs/index.html

This entry

Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.

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Essentials for Childhood: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action

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