Collecting Violent Death Information Using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) | CDC RFA CE19 1905

Opportunity Information: Apply for CDC RFA CE19 1905

The grant opportunity "Collecting Violent Death Information Using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)" is a CDC cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening how states and local jurisdictions track, understand, and ultimately prevent violent deaths. It is grounded in the public health reality that violence causes a large and measurable loss of life and economic harm in the United States. The funding announcement points to more than 64,000 violent deaths in 2016 alone, including 44,965 suicides and 19,362 homicides, and notes that violent deaths are estimated to cost over 77 billion dollars in medical expenses and lost productivity. The central idea behind the program is straightforward: prevention efforts work better when communities have accurate, detailed, and timely information about who is dying, how, where, and under what circumstances.

This opportunity supports participation in the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), which CDC began implementing in 2002. NVDRS is described as a state-based surveillance system, meaning the work is carried out by states, territories, or districts in their own jurisdictions, while CDC provides the standards, guidance, and the technical platform. The system’s defining feature is that it links multiple sources of information about the same death into a more complete record. Specifically, funded recipients use CDC guidance and a CDC web-based data entry system to bring together data from death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports (including toxicology findings), and law enforcement reports. By combining these sources, NVDRS captures more context than any single record type can provide, which helps identify patterns and circumstances that can be targeted through interventions, strategies, and policies designed to stop violence before it happens.

Applicants that receive awards are expected to collect and analyze violent death data for their target area using standardized methods so that results are comparable across jurisdictions. CDC’s role is not just to provide funding; it also ensures consistency and data quality by supplying the web-based system and providing guidance on how information should be abstracted, entered, and managed. A key requirement is data sharing: all funded jurisdictions must provide de-identified data to CDC. CDC then combines these submissions into a multi-state database that can be used to inform national stakeholders and broader prevention priorities. The announcement also notes that NVDRS summary data for 2003 through 2016 are publicly available through CDC resources, reflecting the system’s role in producing usable surveillance information for policy and program decisions.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity offered by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under NCIPC, with the funding activity focused on health. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically means recipients should expect substantial federal involvement in areas like guidance, performance expectations, and programmatic coordination. Eligible applicants are government entities, including state governments as well as county, city or township governments, and special district governments. The opportunity is identified as CDC RFA CE19 1905 under CFDA 93.136. The notice lists an award ceiling of 462,710 dollars, anticipates 32 awards, and provides an original application closing date of April 15, 2019, with electronic submissions due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.

Overall, the grant is designed to help jurisdictions build or enhance the surveillance backbone needed for violence prevention. By systematically linking death certificate information with medical examiner and law enforcement details, NVDRS-funded work supports a clearer understanding of violent deaths, which in turn helps communities design prevention and intervention approaches that are better targeted to the real circumstances behind suicides, homicides, and other violent fatalities.

• The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control - NCIPC in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Collecting Violent Death Information Using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)" 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 Feb 01, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 15, 2019 Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 1159 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.. (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 $462,710.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 32 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments.

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