Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives (PREVAYL 2.0)

Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives, or PREVAYL 2.0, is a forecasted federal cooperative agreement opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The opportunity number is CDC-RFA-CE-27-0052, and the Assistance Listing is 93.136, Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs. The program is categorized as a discretionary health funding opportunity. It builds on the prior PREVAYL cooperative agreement and is intended to provide multiyear support for comprehensive primary prevention efforts addressing violence that affects adolescents and young adults. The purpose of PREVAYL 2.0 is to fund state, territorial, tribal, and local health departments to implement and evaluate comprehensive primary prevention strategies that prevent multiple forms of violence while promoting healthy development among adolescents and young adults. Program priorities include improving data-driven decision-making through surveillance, data linkage, and real-time data use for prevention, evaluation, and implementation science. The program also seeks to build capacity and strengthen the implementation and reach of evidence-based prevention strategies that address shared risk and protective factors. The program emphasizes whole-child and whole-community approaches to violence prevention, including integration of youth mental health and family support strategies. Recipients are expected to engage in strategic collaboration through multisector partnerships, facilitate youth engagement, and help build and support a skilled violence prevention workforce. The prevention scope includes multiple forms of violence affecting youth, specifically interpersonal violence, intimate partner and teen dating violence, bullying, community-based violence, online and technology-facilitated violence, and adverse childhood experiences. The forecast does not provide additional detailed allowable-cost restrictions, indirect cost limitations, subaward restrictions, or other spending limitations. Eligible applicants listed in the Grants.gov eligibility table are county governments, city or township governments, and state governments. The program description additionally states that the NOFO is intended to provide funding to state, territorial, tribal, and local health departments. Because the forecast does not provide additional eligibility instructions reconciling these descriptions, applicants should rely on the final published NOFO for definitive applicant eligibility requirements. No cost sharing or matching requirement applies. The forecast does not identify a letter of intent, concept paper, pre-proposal, notice of intent, or other pre-application gating requirement. The opportunity is currently a forecast rather than an open solicitation. It was forecasted on August 17, 2026, and was last updated on August 17, 2026. The estimated posting date is March 3, 2027, and the estimated application due date is May 3, 2027. Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the listed application due date. The forecast does not yet provide application questions, required application components, evaluation criteria, or detailed submission mechanics beyond electronic submission. These details are expected to depend on the subsequently published funding notice and application package. Estimated total program funding is 2250000, with 10 awards expected. Both the stated award floor and award ceiling are 450000. The estimated award date is July 26, 2027, and the estimated project start date is September 1, 2027. The fiscal year is 2027, and the opportunity archive date is June 2, 2027. Although the description identifies the funding as multiyear, the forecast does not state the specific performance period or explain whether the listed 450000 award amount represents an annual amount or another funding basis. No recurring annual, biennial, quarterly, or other future solicitation schedule is stated. The listed grantor contact is Ayana Stanley at 770-488-3906 and ing9@cdc.gov. Because this is a forecasted opportunity, dates, funding amounts, eligibility provisions, application requirements, and other details may be further defined when the full opportunity is posted. The currently stated schedule anticipates posting on March 3, 2027, applications due on May 3, 2027, awards on July 26, 2027, and projects beginning September 1, 2027.

Align proposed activities with comprehensive primary prevention of multiple forms of youth violence; demonstrate data-driven decision-making through surveillance, data linkage, and real-time data; strengthen evidence-based strategies addressing shared risk and protective factors; integrate youth mental health and family support; use multisector partnerships and youth engagement; support violence prevention workforce capacity.