Injury Center Funding

Background

Injury is the leading cause of death and hospitalization for Americans in the first half of life. More Americans ages 1-44 die from injuries and violence—overdose, suicide, motor vehicle crashes, drowning, and homicide—than from any other single cause. Every year, injuries and violence cost the United States more than $4 trillion and affect workforce and community stability.

As the only federal agency focused on non-occupational injuries and violence, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)—or Injury Center—has safeguarded Americans against public health threats like overdose, suicide, and violence for more than 30 years. The Injury Center empowers states and cities by providing the funding, guidance, and tools they need to make the best decisions for their citizens.

Impact of funding to prevent ACEs, overdose, and suicide

The Injury Center's total budget for FY 2025 is $761,379,000.

More than 80% of the Injury Center's budget goes directly back to communities. State and local health departments, tribes and tribal organizations, and non-profit organizations across the nation use this funding to collect and analyze local data to support community-driven, evidence-based prevention. The remaining 20% supports CDC's data, laboratory, and rapid response capacity, enabling us to stay ahead of shifting overdose, injury, and violence threats.

Data to guide national and community prevention efforts

The Injury Center operates the nation's fastest, most comprehensive data systems for injuries and violence. These systems guide national and community prevention efforts. State, local, and federal decision-makers turn to CDC for the data needed to act on prevention and response efforts.

• The Injury Center Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence Data Dashboard offers timely data at the zip code and census tract level, so states and communities can see where they need to focus actions to prevent and respond to drug overdose, suicide, and violent deaths.
• The SUDORS Dashboard displays data on drug overdose deaths from death certificates, medical examiner or coroner reports, and postmortem toxicology results.
• The DOSE Dashboard displays nonfatal drug overdose data that comes from electronic health record information in syndromic surveillance systems.
• WISQARS is an interactive collection of analysis tools for fatal, nonfatal, and cost of injury data.
• The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) collects data on sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization from adult women and men in the United States.
• The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) provides information about violent deaths including homicides, suicides and deaths caused by law enforcement acting in the line of duty.

Experts in injury prevention and response

The Injury Center's world-class experts monitor changes in injury patterns, develop and evaluate prevention strategies, and provide practical guidance on topics ranging from safe opioid prescribing to best practices for preventing drowning. CDC's laboratory expertise is critical to ensuring patients nationwide can be tested for rapidly emerging threats in the drug supply.

Responding to emergencies on overdose and suicide

Injury Center scientists provide free technical assistance to states, communities, and tribal nations every day. The Injury Center also provides emergency, on-the-ground expertise to any jurisdiction that requests help to combat local injury or violence emergencies, like overdose surges or suicide clusters.

Key Injury Center programs

Overdose, suicide, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are related because losing a loved one to overdose or suicide during childhood is an ACE. Experiencing any adverse experiences as a child increases the risk of overdose and suicide later in life.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) prevention programs

• Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing ACEs (PACE): Data to Action (D2A) funds 12 recipients to prevent ACEs and promote positive childhood experiences to help reduce leading causes of death and mental health challenges, health risk behaviors such as substance use, and confirmed reports of child abuse and neglect.

Injury prevention programs

• Core State Injury Prevention Program (Core SIPP) supports health departments in using the best available evidence to identify and respond to existing and emerging injury threats, such as ACEs, traumatic brain injury, and transportation-related injury.
• Injury Control Research Centers (ICRCs) conduct research, outreach, and training to develop and evaluate new injury control interventions.

Overdose prevention programs

• Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) in States funds 49 state health departments and Washington, D.C., to expand activities to track overdoses, emerging drug threats, and associated risk factors to guide evidence-based prevention efforts.
• Overdose Data to Action (OD2A): LOCAL funds 40 city, county, and territorial health departments to build a strong foundation of cooperation and partnership across public health, behavioral health, health systems, community organizations, and public safety.
• Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) funds public health experts in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands as part of an unprecedented national network of public health and public safety officers working together to share information, disrupt the illicit drug supply, and protect people from overdose.
• Drug-Free Communities is the nation's leading effort to mobilize communities to prevent youth substance use. More than 750 community coalitions are funded to establish and strengthen collaboration among local partners.

Suicide prevention programs

• Comprehensive Suicide Program (CSP) funds 24 programs to implement and evaluate a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention, with a special focus on populations that are unequally affected by suicide.
• Veteran Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (VSPE) awards and administers short-term mini grants to veteran-serving organizations to grow their capacity to implement suicide prevention programs.

Violence prevention programs

• Domestic Violence Prevention Enhancement and Leadership Through Alliances (DELTA): Achieving Health Equity through Addressing Disparities (AHEAD) supports 13 state domestic violence coalitions to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors related to intimate partner violence.
• Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms (FASTER): Advancing Violence Epidemiology in Real-Time (AVERT) funds 12 jurisdictions to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on violence-related emergency department visits to respond to and prevent violence.
• The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) is the only state-based system that links up to 700 unique data elements about the "who, when, where, and how" of violent deaths and suicides, and provides insights about "why" they occurred to inform prevention activities in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
• Preventing Violence Affecting Young Lives (PREVAYL) supports 8 recipients in addressing multiple forms of violence and risk factors, such as youth violence, teen dating violence, and other ACEs, which put communities at greater risk for violence.
• Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) funds state and territorial health departments in all 50 states and sexual assault coalitions to help plan and assess state efforts to prevent sexual violence.
• Youth Violence Prevention Centers (YVPCs) partner with local communities to identify, develop, and test innovative youth violence prevention strategies.

Injury prevention programs in tribal communities

• CDC is committed to supporting tribal communities, federally recognized tribes, Tribal Epidemiology Centers, tribal organizations, and Indian Health Service to prevent injuries, the leading cause of death for American Indians and Alaska Native people between the ages of 1 and 54.

Resources

• CDC Budget Page
• CDC Operating Plan