The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is soliciting investigator-initiated research that will help expand and advance our understanding about what works to prevent violence that impacts children and youth, collectively referred

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to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and what works to effectively implement ACEs prevention strategies.

This initiative is intended to support evaluation and implementation research studies on primary prevention programs, practices or policies with universal or selected (i.e., have one or more risk factors that place them at heightened risk for violence) populations.

Funds are available to conduct such studies focused on preventing child abuse and neglect and at least one other form of violence affecting children and youth, including teen dating violence, sexual violence, youth violence, and exposure to adult intimate partner violence.

The Primary outcomes we wish to achieve with this initiative are:
Objective One:
Effectiveness research to evaluate primary prevention strategies that improve the social or structural conditions that contribute to health inequities across population groups and are empirically or theoretically associated with child abuse and neglect or other forms of violence affecting children and youth.

Objective Two:
Effectiveness research to evaluate primary prevention strategies that enhance protective factors to reduce violence against children or within families.

Objective Three:
Effectiveness research to evaluate primary prevention strategies that incorporate a dual-generation approach for caregivers and their children that breaks the cycle of violence and adversity.

Objective Four:
Implementation research to study factors that influence effective implementation of primary ACEs prevention strategies that are based on the best available evidence.