National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention (Youth Violence Prevention Centers, YVPC)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Violence Prevention

Center awards to academic institutions partnering with high-violence communities to build surveillance, strengthen community capacity and rigorously evaluate community-level youth violence prevention strategies. Five centers hold the 2021-2026 awards.

Indicative award

Amount not published (varies by call)CDC's YVPC page publishes no per-center or program dollar figure.

Timing

Periodic callsPeriodic calls · AprNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Five centers are funded for the 2021-2026 cycle; the last competition (RFA-CE-22-012) closed 4/18/2022. CDC has not posted a successor NOFO on its own site, so treat a future round as expected but unannounced.

Who can apply

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

Eligibility

Academic institutions that partner with local community organisations in communities with among the highest rates of violence. Current holders include Tulane and peer universities. Awarded competitively in multi-year cycles, so no applications are accepted between cycles.

SSWR clusters

Topics

youth violence prevention · community-level intervention · community-engaged evaluation

Apply at

https://www.cdc.gov/youth-violence/php/yvpcs/index.html

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

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National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention (Youth Violence Prevention Centers, YVPC)

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