Health and Human Services
School Safety Enhancement
The Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is soliciting applications in support of the administration of the School Safety Enhancement (SSE) program on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Secretary of Education (the Secretary). The SSE program provides competitive grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to develop, implement, and strengthen statewide school safety systems and the physical security of schools.
Children’s Mental Health Initiative
The purpose of the Children’s Mental Health Initiative program is to provide comprehensive community mental health services to children, youth, and young adults, birth through age 21 with a serious emotional disturbance, which may include efforts to identify and serve children at risk, and their families.
Implementing Zero Suicide in Health Systems
The purpose of this program is to provide resources to healthcare systems for implementing the Zero Suicide framework for adults who are at risk of suicide.
Firearm Injury Prevention in Community Healthcare Settings
This program funds research that reduces firearm injury and disparities through the development and evaluation of firearm injury primary prevention interventions leveraging community healthcare settings.
Lethal Means Safety Suicide Prevention Research in Healthcare and Community Settings
This program provides funding to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of therapeutic and service delivery interventions that utilize lethal means safety strategies to reduce suicide risk in healthcare and community settings.
Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education)
The purpose of Project AWARE is to develop a sustainable infrastructure for schoolbased mental health programs and services. It is expected that the recipient will build a collaborative partnership that includes the State Education Agency, the Local Education Agency, Tribal Education Agency, the State Mental Health Agency, community-based providers of behavioral health care services, school personnel, community organizations, families, and school-aged youth. Based on a public health model, this partnership will implement mental health related promotion, awareness, prevention, intervention, and resilience activities to ensure that students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. SAMHSA expects that this program will promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Administrator grants
The purpose of this program is to serve as the 988 Lifeline Administrator and manage, enhance, and strengthen the 988 Lifeline. The 988 Lifeline Administrator will maintain a robust network of crisis contact centers, implement, and oversee the national standards of care and quality to ensure that everyone who contacts the 988 Lifeline receives access to skilled, caring, culturally competent crisis counselors.
National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI)
The NCTSI program funds treatment and services for children, adolescents, and families who have experienced traumatic events and also provides learning materials and resources on their website.
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
This program funds suicide prevention and intervention programs for adults, including by enhancing collaboration with key community stakeholders (e.g., county health departments, workplace settings, criminal justice settings, senior-serving organizations, community firearm stakeholders), raising awareness of the available resources for suicide prevention, and implementing lethal means safety.
Project 2025
Project 2025 is a set of resources from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention aimed at reducing the annual rate of suicide by 20 percent by 2025. The website provides guidance and resources in four areas of intervention, one of which is firearms.
National Institutes of Health research
The National Institutes of Health provides grant funding for research into firearms violence prevention. Funding opportunities can be found on the NIH’s searchable website
Children’s Safety Network Program
The Children’s Safety Network program supports state agencies that seek to reduce child injury hospitalizations and deaths, including from firearms.
Community Violence Prevention Resources for Action
The CDC provides resources and guidance materials on community violence prevention.
Firearm Surveillance in Emergency Rooms (FASTER)
The CDC funds research through this program on surveillance data on emergency room visits for firearm injuries.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) – research grants for preventing violence and violence related injury
The NCIPC funds research into gun violence prevention strategies. Funded research is detailed at this website.