Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives (PREVAYL 2.0)

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: 

• Improving data-driven decision-making, including surveillance, data linkage, and use of real-time data for prevention, evaluation and implementation science 

• Building capacity and strengthening implementation and reach of evidence-based prevention strategies that address shared risk and protective factors 

• Advancing whole-child and whole-community violence prevention approaches that integrate youth mental health and family support strategies 

• Engaging in strategic collaboration through multisector partnerships to facilitate youth engagement, and build and support a skilled violence prevention workforce 

• 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)